Rory Sayres
Post Doc
I am interested in how our brains provide flexibility in our ability to visually recognize objects. More than any artificial system, our recognition ability is robust to changes in an object's pose, view angle, illumination, and position. My work seeks to understand how
different cortical regions construct increasingly abstracted representations of object images, which become robust to these
variations.
My current project focuses on recognizing objects at different retinal positions. We know that orderly representations of the visual field
form an organizing principle for much of visual cortex. I am examining the degree to which this principle can explain the position
sensitivity effects in object-selective cortex, and am modeling changes in receptive field properties along different regions within
the cortical object-recognition pathway. I am also looking for potential behavioral correlates to our observed neural effects.
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