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SUMMARY:Doris Tsao - Representing the visual world
DESCRIPTION:
 "How does the brain represent the visual 
 world?  Research on how the primate brain represents 
 faces has given us a remarkable window 
 into the processes underlying visual perception. 
 In my talk, I will discuss the organization 
 and feature code used by the brain's system 
 for representing faces, the way the system 
 represents memories, and how the system has 
 provided a model for clarifying how the brain 
 represents objects in general."\n
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 Bio\n
 Doris 
 Tsao is a professor of biology at the 
 University of California Berkeley and an investigator 
 at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. 
 She joined UC Berkeley in 2021, and prior 
 to that was a professor at the California Institute 
 of Technology from 2009-2021. She studied 
 biology and mathematics at Caltech as an 
 undergraduate and received her PhD in neuroscience 
 from Harvard University in 2002. Her 
 central interest is in understanding the neural 
 mechanisms underlying vision. Her lab seeks 
 to understand how visual objects and actions 
 are represented in the brain and how these 
 representations are used to guide behavior. Her 
 lab is investigating mechanisms at multiple 
 stages in the visual hierarchy, from early 
 processes for segmenting visual input into discrete 
 objects, to mid- and high-level perceptual 
 processes for assigning meaningful identity 
 to specific objects, to processes by which 
 these perceptual representations are integrated 
 into coherent scene representations. Techniques 
 used include: electrophysiology, functional 
 magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), electrical 
 microstimulation, optogenetics, anatomical 
 tracing, psychophysics, and mathematical 
 modeling.\n
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 Tsao has received multiple honors 
 including the Sofia Kovalevskaya Award (2004), 
 Eppendorf & Science International Prize 
 in Neurobiology (2006), MacArthur Fellowship 
 (2018), and Kavli Prize in Neuroscience 
 (2024). She was elected to the National Academy 
 of Science in 2020.\n
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 Price: VIRTUAL ONLY\n
 Sponsor: public\n
 Contact name: Bob Patterer\n
 Contact email: events@frib.msu.edu\n
 for more info visit the web at:\n 
 https://frib.msu.edu/gateway/events/talk-8dec2024\n
LOCATION:Facility for Rare Isotope Beams
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