Welcome to the Sereno Lab
Higher cognitive functions, such as attention, memory, or
language, are usually taken for granted. Only when a
disruption in these functions occurs do we realize how
critical they are to everyday life. Attentional dysfunction
is a hallmark of many human disorders, including mental
disorders (e.g., schizophrenia), neurological disorders
(e.g., Parkinson’s disease), and developmental disorders
(e.g., autism).
In our laboratory, we hypothesize that spatial attention
and spatial working memory share a close physiological
relationship with saccadic eye movements. We study and
measure eye movements as an indicator of these higher
cognitive functions. Hence, our main goal is to improve our
understanding of higher cognitive functions such as
attention and working memory in order to improve treatment
and outcome in people who suffer from such deficits.
