Our goal is to understand how vision drives behavior and reciprocally, how actions affect perception.

The Savier lab research goal is to understand how visual information is distributed in distinct brain centers and how visual information is shaped by our behaviors. To this end, we compare visual function in animal models in which vision serves distinct ethological functions. This comparative approach allows to interrogate the implementation of visual processes and their modulation at the anatomical, physiological and behavioral level. The development of recent molecular and neuromodulation tools allow the isolation and manipulation of the same-cell-type across species, thus answering fundamental questions about the emergence of visual response properties and more generally on the neuronal encoding of visual information.