working at

the interface of disciplines

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Research Summary

"The work in our laboratory focuses on computational

modeling of the visual system. Our goal is to formulate

models that describe how the brain encodes visual

information, and that accurately predict how the brain

responds during natural vision. We study the visual

system because it is more approachable than the

cognitive systems that mediate complex thought. ..."

Sept 2011

September 2011

"Scientists at the University of California, Berkeley found

that by looking at brain activity, they could get a fairly

good picture of a human's visual experiences. The study is

published in the current issue of Current Biology. So how

did they do that? They made people watch short video

clips and then they measured brain activity using a

functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) machine

and they were able to recreate the clip people we

watching...."