Michel Imbert (born 29 June 1935 in Béziers, France) is a neuropsychologist[1] teacher-researcher in cognitive neurosciences, professor emeritus at Pierre-et-Marie-Curie University (since 2003) and honorary director of studies at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS).

[9] Sources:[10][11] At the end of the 1950s, Michel Imbert demonstrated, with Pierre Buser, the existence of a convergence of visual, auditory and somesthesic signals at the level of the pre-central cortex in cats.

[14][15] He demonstrates that extra-ocular proprioceptive afferents play a determining role in the development of properties previously considered exclusively visual,[16] and, in the primate, he establishes that the coding of three-dimensional vision is dependent on oculomotor vergence signals.

[17] Contrary to what was then generally accepted, retinal afferents are not distributed in the kneeling body and the lateral superior colliculus in distinct layers according to competitive mechanisms assigning their place to the axons of the ganglion cells originating from each eye.

[19] In a New World monkey (Callithrix jacchus), he analyzed the post-natal development of ocular dominance columns accompanied by variations in the distribution of NMDAR1 receptors in the granular layers and inhomogeneity in cortical microvascularization.