I am a neuroscientist trying to understand how the brain processes visual information to guide behaviour and form memories. My research focusses on the interactions between higher cortical visual areas, the thalamus, the hippocampus and early visual areas such as V1. I am particularly interested in the function of top-down, or feedback, connections which carry information about context, predictions based on experience and memory, and hypotheses about 3D structure back to the early visual cortex. I measure neural activity in epileptic patients who have had electrodes implanted in their brain as part of their treatment. I also record and modulate neural activity in mice using Neuropixels electrodes, two-photon imaging and optogenetic techniques to study neural activity at multiple levels of processing.

https://matthew-w-self.github.io/self-lab/research/

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Grants and Awards listed are those received whilst working with the University of Glasgow.

• View from the top: the function of feedback in visual processing.
  Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council
  2026 - 2028
   

Supervised Postgraduate Students

• Ross Hardaker (Postgraduate)
• Barbala Ostrovska (Postgraduate)

Supervisor

• Kate Jeffery