Hugo Merchant, Ph.D.

Research Associate, Brain Sciences Center

Professor of Neuroscience, Instituto de Biologia, Mexico

merchant@inb.unam.mx

Specialties

Neurophysiology of motor control, visual motion perception and spatial and temporal cognition

Education

Ph.D. Neuroscience, National University of Mexico.
B.S., Biology.

Selected Publications

Merchant, H., Battaglia-Mayer, A. & Georgopoulos, A.P. (2001) Functional properties of neurons in the motor cortex and parietal area 7a during optic flow stimulation. Journal of Neurophysiology, 86: 1955-1971.

Merchant, H., Battaglia-Mayer, A. and Georgopoulos, A.P.(2003) Functional organization of parietal neuronal responses to optic flow stimuli. Journal of Neurophysiology 90: 675-682.

Merchant, H., Battaglia-Mayer, A. & Georgopoulos, A.P. (2003) Interception of real and apparent circularly moving targets: Psychophysics in human subjects and monkeys. Experimental Brain Research, 152: 106-112.

Merchant, H., Battaglia-Mayer, A., & Georgopoulos, A.P. (2004) Neural responses in motor cortex and area 7a to real and apparent motion. Experimental Brain Research, 154: 291-307.

Merchant, H., Battaglia-Mayer, A. & Georgopoulos, A.P.  (2004) Neural responses during interception of real and apparent circularly moving targets in motor cortex and area 7a. Cerebral Cortex, 14: 314-331.

Fortes, A.F., Merchant, H. & Georgopoulos, A.P. (2004) Comparative and categorical spatial judgments in the monkey: "High" and "Low". Animal Cognition, 7: 101-108.

Merchant, H., Fortes, A.F. and Georgopoulos, A.P. (2004) Short-term memory effects on the representation of two-dimensional space in the rhesus monkey. Animal Cognition, 7: 7: 133-143.

Merchant, H., Battaglia-Mayer, A.  & Georgopoulos, A.P. (2004) Decoding of path-guided apparent motion from neural ensembles in posterior parietal cortex. Experimental Brain Research, In Press.