Umberto Olcese

Umberto Olcese is associate professor in cognitive and systems neuroscience at the University of Amsterdam. He is an expert in the neurophysiology of perception, ranging from neurons to phenomenology. His laboratory studies how the same sensory stimulus can elicit different perceptual responses, how sleep leads to a state where we are unaware of the world, and what neural mechanisms underlie conscious perception. Olcese combines several neurophysiological techniques such as advanced large scale recordings, optogenetics, and behavior.