Bio
Juan Manuel Galeazzi González was born in Mexico and is also an Italian citizen. He recently completed his doctoral degree (DPhil) in the University of Oxford and is currently a postdoctoral researcher in the Oxford Cognitive Neuropsychology Centre.
research summary
I am interested in the computational principles that allow our brains to form a representation of our body and the space surrounding it. How our brains process and integrate multisensory information in order to guide and execute motor actions. For example, a number of studies seem to suggest that our brains represent the location of visual objects using a variety of coordinate systems, some of which are centred in the frame of reference of the body or body parts (e.g. eye-centred, head-centred, hand-centred).
During my DPhil, my research focused on producing self-organizing neural network models that provide a theoretical understanding of how neurons might learn to represent the location of visual targets in different frames of reference and how this information could be used to guide motor behaviour.