Title: The Neural Basis of Object Recognition.

Kalanit Grill-Spector

Assistant Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience

Stanford University

Abstract:

I am interested in the problem of visual recognition, and the strategy I have chosen to research this problem is to investigate a system that has successfully solved this problem (i.e., the human brain). My goals are to understand the representations and algorithms implemented in this system that enable efficient and rapid object recognition. I will describe a series of imaging and psychophysical experiments that investigate both the nature of object representations in higher level visual areas and the perceptual processes (or algorithms) that are carried out on these representations. Overall, our data provide important insights and constraints on theoretical and computational models of human object recognition.