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Our research utilizes functional imaging (fMRI), quantitative MRI,diffusion weighted imaging (DWI), electrocarticography, computational technique,s and behavioral methods to investigate the neural basis of visual recognition and categorization. For humans, visual recognition is a natural, effortless skill that occurs within a few hundreds of milliseconds, yet, it is one of the least understood aspects of visual perception. We are interested in investigating the underlying representations and cortical mechanisms that subserve recognition, and relate between these neural processes and our visual perception of the world.

 

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Longitudinal Kids Study
Some regions of the brain seem to be hardwired from birth, while others are shaped by your experiences well into adulthood. We are conducting a large study to investigate how these visual regions of the brain develop from childhood to adulthood, as little is currently known. To learn more and if you are intersted in participating, Click the colored brain below! Kids Study

Object Selective Regions in the Human Brain
Here you can see visual areas in the human cortex that are selectively activated when people look at objects in the world and are involved in object recognition. These regions include the lateral occipital complex that is located bilaterally, extending ventrally into temporal cortex. The images were acquired from MRI scans in which we scanned both the brain's anatomic structure and functional activations.

 

 

Projects

PR055E5ING 0F NUM8ERS AND LE77ER5 IN 7HE HUMAN 8RAIN
Mareike Grotheer

Receptive field modeling of the neural mechanisms of face perception and attention
Sonia Poltoratski

How does high-level visual cortex develop during reading acquisition?
Marisa Nordt

Neural tuning to face hand morphs
Mona Rosenke

At what spatial scale are object categories represented in ventral temporal cortex?
Eshed Margalit

Differential white-matter tracts from foveal and peripheral V1 to face-selective regions
Dawn Finzi

The anatomical, functional, and behavioral development of high-level vision
Jesse Gomez

How does the representation of temporal information differ across parallel visual processing streams in the brain?
Anthony Stigliani

How does task affect cortical representations?
Lior Bugatus

Development of neural sensitivity to face identity correlates with perceptual discriminability
Vaidehi Natu

From microns to systems: Understanding anatomical and functional features contributing to the structure of cortical networks<
Kevin Weiner