About Yesenia Taveras Cruz
Area: Perception
Advisor: Rhea Eskew
I am a third-year graduate student in Prof. Rhea Eskew’s Visual Psychophysics Lab. My undergraduate research focused on exploring how variations in neurochemistry and neural circuity – through a combination of pharmaceutical and environmental manipulation of both, cortical and retinal dopaminergic pathways in adult zebrafish (Danio rerio) – effected complex social behaviors and visual system functioning. Currently, I am interested in color vision detection, discrimination, and impairment, with a special interest in the short wavelength system. Additionally, I am interested in the plasticity of the visual system as induced by video-game play.