研究员
KAPOOR Vishal
- 职称：
- 职务：研究员
- 研究领域：神经科学、视觉感知、意识、前额叶皮层、认知
- 电话：
- 邮箱：vishal.kapoor@icpbr.ac.cn
简历
Vishal Kapoor博士是视觉认知神经动力学研究组组长。于2004年毕业于印度国立伊斯兰大学生物技术专业。于2006年在印度国家脑科学研究中心通过开展关于人类动作的抑制性控制的研究获得硕士学位。2007年赴德深造，加入马克斯普朗克生物控制论研究所认知过程生理学系，因为研究前额叶皮层在有意识的视觉感知中作用的工作于2015年以最高评价获得德国图宾根大学理学院和医学院授予的神经科学博士学位。此后他继续在马克斯普朗克生物控制论研究所从事博士后研究。Vishal Kapoor博士于2021年11月加入国际灵长类脑研究中心、中国科学院脑科学与智能技术卓越创新中心，成立视觉认知神经动力学研究组，主要研究有意识的视觉感知、认知的神经机制。
研究方向
科学界最大的谜团之一是 "意识是什么？理解意识的生物学基础一直被认为是神经科学领域最神秘、最困难的问题之一。为了理解这一难以捉摸的现象，一种适合神经科学研究的方法是研究有意识视觉的神经相关性。为此，我们有兴趣了解视觉感知的神经底层。
虽然人们对灵长类视觉系统各个区域的功能特化已经有了很多了解，但这些神经机制如何共同实现主观视觉感知仍有待研究。重要的是，研究感知如何帮助高级认知功能对于整体理解大脑如何产生行为至关重要。因此，实验室中的研究问题旨在探索意识感知背后的神经基础，并将这些神经过程与认知背后的神经过程区分开来。
显然，钻研神经机制如何产生视觉感知和认知，也能为更全面地理解“什么是意识”提供启示。
代表论著
(*-同等贡献，#-通讯作者）
1.Kapoor V#. Columnar and diffuse topographies in the marmoset prefrontal connectome. Neuron (2023), 111(14), 2121-2122.
2.Dwarakanath A#, *, Kapoor V*, Werner J, Safavi S, Fedorov LA, Logothetis NK, Panagiotaropoulos TI#. Bistability of prefrontal states gates access to consciousness. Neuron (2023) 111, 1666-1683.
a.Preview by Ole Jensen and Oscar Ferrante: Prefrontal cortex oscillations update and stabilize consciousness during binocular rivalry. Neuron 111, 1519-1520.
b.Press release: https://www.mpg.de/20170692/how-the-brain-decides-what-we-perceive
3.Safavi S, Panagiotaropoulos TI, Kapoor V, Ramirez-Villegas JF, Logothetis NK, Besserve M#. Uncovering the organization of neural circuits with generalized phase locking analysis. PLOS Computational Biology (2023) 19(4): e1010983.
4.Hartig R#, Klink PC, Polyakova Z, Dehaqani M A, Bondar I, Merchant H, Vanduffel W, Roe AW, Nambu A, Thirumala M, Shmuel A, Kapoor V, Gothard KM, Evrard HC, Basso MA, Petkov C, Mitchell AS#. A framework and resource for global collaboration in non-human primate neuroscience. Current Research in Neurobiology (2023) 4, 2023, 100079.
5.Kapoor V#, *, Dwarakanath A*, Safavi S, Werner J, Besserve M, Panagiotaropoulos TI#, Logothetis NK. Decoding internally generated transitions of conscious contents in the prefrontal cortex without subjective reports. Nature Communications (2022) 13, 1535.
a.Article recommended as ‘Exceptional’ and ranked among top 0.5% of Neuroscience articles at Faculty Opinions (https://facultyopinions.com/article/741859231).
b.Press release: https://www.kyb.tuebingen.mpg.de/prefrontal-cortex-conscious-vision
6.Panagiotaropoulos T#, Dwarakanath A, Kapoor V. Prefrontal Cortex and Consciousness: Beware of the Signals. Trends in Cognitive Sciences 24 (5), S. 343 - 344 (2020).
7.Kapoor V#, Besserve M, Logothetis NK, Panagiotaropoulos TI#. Parallel and functionally segregated processing of task phase and conscious content in the prefrontal cortex. Communication Biology (2018) 1, 215.
8.Safavi S*, Dwarakanath A*, Kapoor V, Werner J, Hatsopoulos GN, Logothetis NK#, Panagiotaropoulos TI#. Non-monotonic spatial structure of interneuronal correlations in prefrontal microcircuits. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (2018) 115 (15) E3539-E3548.
9.Safavi S*, Kapoor V*, Logothetis NK and Panagiotaropoulos TI#. Is the frontal lobe involved in conscious perception? Frontiers in Psychology (2014) 5(1063) 1-2.
10.Panagiotaropoulos TI#, Kapoor V and Logothetis NK. Subjective visual perception: From local processing to emergent phenomena of brain activity. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society London B (2014) 369 (1641) 1-13.
11.Panagiotaropoulos TI#, Kapoor V and Logothetis NK (September-2013). Desynchronization and rebound of beta oscillations during conscious and unconscious local neuronal processing in the macaque lateral prefrontal cortex. Frontiers in Psychology (2013) 4(603) 1-10.
12.Kapoor V#, Krampe E, Klug A, Logothetis NK and Panagiotaropoulos TI#. Development of Tube Tetrodes and a Multi-Tetrode Drive for deep structure electrophysiological recordings in the macaque brain. Journal of Neuroscience Methods (2013) 216(1) 43–48.
13.Panagiotaropoulos TI#, *, Kapoor V, Logothetis NK and Deco G#, *. A Common Neurodynamical Mechanism Could Mediate Externally Induced and Intrinsically Generated Transitions in Visual Awareness. PLoS ONE (2013) 8(1) 1-10.
14.Panagiotaropoulos TI#, *, Deco G*, Kapoor V and Logothetis NK. Neuronal discharges and gamma oscillations explicitly reflect conscious visual perception in the lateral prefrontal cortex. Neuron (2012) 74(5) 924–935.
15.Theodoni P#, Panagiotaropoulos TI*, Kapoor V*, Logothetis NK and Deco G. Cortical microcircuit dynamics mediating binocular rivalry: the role of adaptation in inhibition. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience (2011) 5(145) 1-19.
16.Ray S, Bhutani N, Kapoor V and Murthy A#. Trans-saccadic processing of visual and motor planning during sequential eye movements. Experimental Brain Research (2011) 215(1) 13-25.
17.Kapoor V and Murthy A#. Covert inhibition potentiates online control in a double-step task. Journal of Vision (2008) 8(1:20) 1-16.