Alyssa Sanchez

Alyssa

Position Title
Graduate Student

  • Major Professor: W. Martin Usrey
Education and Degree(s)
  • BA - Occidental College - Cognitive Science - 2017
  • BA - Occidental College - Spanish Literature - 2017
Research Interests & Expertise
  • In the Usrey Lab, I study thalamocortical circuits of the visual system. Specifically, I am interested in how corticogeniculate feedback modulates visual processing in the LGN. By studying feedback’s physiological and anatomical characteristics, I can ide
Publications
  • Sanchez, A.N. & Usrey, W.M. (in preparation). Eye to Brain: Parallel Visual Pathways In P. Martin (Eds.), The Senses: A Comprehensive Reference, 2nd Edition. Elsevier.
  • Society for Neuroscience (2019) Poster: Effects of amplitude-modulated signal-in-noise auditory stimuli on the firing rates of auditory cortical neurons in an awake macaque monkey. Sanchez, A.N., Cazabon, D.B., Bormann, B., Neverkovek, K., Cheung, K.B., Recanzone, G.H.
  • Society for Neuroscience (2019) Poster Abstract: Intracortical microstimulation of sensorimotor cortex in short-tailed opossum (Monodelphis domestica): New insights into the evolution of motor cortex in mammals. Halley, A.C., Baldwin, M.KL., Englund, M., Sanchez, A., Krubitzer, L.