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Sanchez-Vives, Maria Victoria
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ICREA Research Professor at IDIBAPS (Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer). Life & Medical Sciences
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María V. Sánchez-Vives, MD, PhD in Neurosciences has been ICREA Research Professor at the IDIBAPS (Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer) since 2008, where she is head of the Systems Neuroscience group. She previously held a position as Associate Professor of Physiology and head of a research lab at the Instituto de Neurociencias de Alicante (UMH-CSIC). She was postdoctoral fellow at Rockefeller University and postdoctoral and research associate scientist at Yale University. Her independent research has been supported by national and international agencies (Human Frontier Science Program and the EU).
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Research Interests
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Cellular and synaptic properties as well as connectivity determine the emergent activity generated by neuronal networks. MVSV’s group is interested in different aspects of spontaneous rhythmic neural activity: its regulating mechanisms, the information it encodes, and the consequences of this activity upon the network. This is studied from an experimental and computational approach. Regarding the processed information, the work of her group has included different sensory systems, as well as spatial processing occurring in the hippocampal complex. Lastly, the integration of the cortical information giving rise to bodily representation and the combination of brain-computer interfaces and virtual reality for understanding these processes, is another research line of MVSV's team.
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Key Words
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up states, slow oscillations, cortical rhythms, cortical processing, spatial processing, neuronal networks, cortical neurophysiology, body representation, body scheme.
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