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43 results for "Visual Cognition"

43 results for "Visual Cognition"

Ken Nakayama

Person

Research interests: Phenomenology of visual perception, visuo-motor coordination and its perception, and individual differences

Ken Nakayama received his BA from Haverford College and PhD from UCLA.  Originally trained in the field of visual...

Talia Konkle

Person

Talia Konkle's research focuses on the cognitive and neural organization of high-level visual experience: how do we see and understand the visual world around us? She employs a combination of behavioral techniques, human functional neuroimaging and...

Jacob Prince

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I work at the intersection of cognitive neuroscience and AI, studying how biological and artificial visual systems transform the rich sensory content of our world into representations that support many important behaviors - from object and facial...

Stephen M Kosslyn

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Work in our laboratory focuses on four general topics; we study: 1) the neural substrate underlying visual mental imagery (for example, we have used PET and fMRI to show that many of the same structures that are involved in object recognition are also...

Patrick Cavanagh

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Patrick Cavanagh received a degree in Engineering from McGill University in 1968. An interest in artificial intelligence led to a Ph.D. in cognitive psychology from Carnegie-Mellon in 1972. He taught at the Université de Montréal in Psychology until 1989...

Visiting Speaker: Taylor Webb, November 2, 12 noon

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Taylor Webb Topic: “ The Relational Bottleneck and the Emergence of Cognitive Abstractions” Abstract: Human cognition is characterized by a remarkable ability to transcend the specifics of limited experience to entertain highly general, abstract ideas...

Alfonso Caramazza

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A number of specific issues concerning the structure of lexical forms and their relation to grammatical, morphological and semantic information are being pursued. These issues are addressed through research with brain-damaged and normal subjects. The...

Visiting Speaker: Aran Nayebi

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Aran Nayebi. Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow, MIT Topic: “Bridging Neural Dynamics To Goal-Directed Behavior Across Timescales” A core feature of human cognition is our ability to perform goal-directed actions, and to flexibly adapt our plans to meaningfully...