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Welcome to the Corneil Lab

The lab is headed by Dr. Brian Corneil, and is located at the University of Western Ontario in London, Ontario, Canada.

We study how the brain controls movement

Our lab seeks to understand how the brain transforms vision into action.  Much of our current work is motivated by the desire to understand how cortical and subcortical areas work together to move in a complex and changing world. Such an understanding is needing to appreciate how the brain changes following injury or disease, and how to design better brain therapies. 

We're looking for PDFs and Grad Students!
 

Group Axe Throwing Sep 2023b.HEIC

Latest Publications

Rapid integration of face detection and task set in visually guided reaching

  • The superior colliculus (SC) has been increasingly implicated in the rapid processing of evolutionarily relevant stimuli like faces.

  • The SC has also bee implicated in the generation of express visuomotor responses (EVRs), which are very short-latency (~80ms) bursts of muscle activity time-locked to visual target presentation. 

  • We found that EVRs on upper limb muscles are influenced in reaching tasks involving high-contrast faces, promoting reaching toward or away from a face in a task-dependent manner

  • These results extend support for the hypothesis that the SC mediates the EVR by demonstrating that faces impact muscle recruitment at short latencies that precede cortical activity for face perception.

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