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2011 rutgers university behaving monkey neurophysiology , optical imaging ralph siegel -lrb- scientist -rrb-
 ralph siegel
ralph siegel -lrb- scientist -rrb-

dr. ralph mitchell siegel , a researcher who studied the neurological underpinnings of vision , was a professor of neuroscience at rutgers university , newark , in the center for molecular and behavioral neuroscience .
he died september 2 , 2011 at his home following a long illness .
siegel , a neurophysiologist , was interested in the basic mechanisms underlying visual motion and spatial perception , with the ultimate goal of developing applications to assist people who have visual processing disorders and neurological injuries .
he performed pioneering work on parietal neurons and the influence of eye position and attention on perception .
his laboratory became the first to perform optical imaging of parietal cortex in behaving non-human primates .
