Matteo Carandini

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Matteo Carandini (b. 1967) is a contemporary neuroscientist who studies the visual system. In 1999-2002 he was a Professor at the Institute of Neuroinformatics of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich. Since 2002 he has been a Scientist at the Smith-Kettlewell Institute in San Francisco.

His studies focus on the lateral geniculate nucleus and on the visual cortex (V1). Working with David Heeger and J Anthony Movshon he refined and provided evidence for Heeger's normalization model of V1 responses. Together with David Ferster he discovered that prolonged visual stimulation causes a tonic hyperpolarization in V1 neurons.