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Jason Webster (jwebst at mit dot edu) I joined the Kanwisher Lab as a Technical Assistant with a background in software development. I am currently working in the Vision and Cognition Group in the Psychology Department at the University of Washington for one year before beginning a grad program in cognitive neuroscience and vision research. |
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Jonas Kubilius (ngk at mit dot edu) After three years of undergraduate research in the Kanwisher lab, I am now a full-time research assistant here, working with Danny Dilks on a wide range of topics: visual illusions and origins of conscious perception, cortical reorganization, development and organization of selective regions in the human ventral visual pathway. I received a dual degree in Mathematics and Physics at MIT in 2008. I am starting my PhD at University of Leuven, Belgium, under the supervision of Dr. Hans Op de Beeck and Prof. Johan Wagemans. My research will be focused on trying to understand what point of the visual hierarchy and what mechanisms underlie the process of parts combining to form a percept of a whole. |
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Karla Evans (kevans at mit dot edu) I received my Ph.D. at Princeton University where, under the tutelage of Anne Treisman, I studied natural scene perception and the role of attention in processing complex visual stimuli, as well as crossmodal interaction between correspondent auditory and visual features. For my thesis I used psychophysics, fMRI, and electrophysiology in humans to understand featural correspondence between basic auditory and visual features, exploring the nature, the neural correlates and the role of attention in their interaction. As a postdoctoral fellow in Brigham and Women's Hospital Visual Attention Lab I am further honing my psychophysical expertise and trying to understand the effect of target prevalence in visual search and how deployment of attention determines what is perceived in real scenes. |
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Johannes Haushofer (joha at mit dot edu) I got a BA in Psychology, Physiology, and Philosophy at Oxford and then did my PhD with Nancy Kanwisher and Marge Livingstone, working on mid-level shape perception and object recognition as well as economic decision-making, in particular intertemporal choice. I now work with Ernst Fehr at the Institute for Empirical Economics at the University of Zürich, Switzerland. |
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Becca Schwarzlose (beccafs at ucla dot edu) Before joining the Kanwisher lab as a graduate student, I received my bachelor's degree in Psychology from Northwestern University. During my wonderful years in the lab, I studied the neural underpinnings of object and scene recognition, focusing particularly on the visual processing of bodies and on the interaction between location and category information in category-specific visual areas. I received my PhD in Neuroscience from MIT in 2008 and am currently studying schizophrenia and bipolar disorder as a Postdoctoral Fellow in the lab of Dr. Tyrone Cannon at UCLA. |
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Chris Baker (bakerchris at mail dot nih dot gov ) Chris' main interests are in understanding how visual objects are represented in the brain and how those representations change with experience. Although his work at the Kanwisher Lab utilized fMRI, he originally trained as an electrophysiologist working with David Perrett in St Andrews, and with Carl Olson and Marlene Behrmann at the Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition in Pittsburgh. He is currently Investigator and Chief of the Unit on Learning and Plasticity, Laboratory of Brain and Cognition, NIMH |
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Hans Op de Beeck (hop at mit dot edu) Hans has received his PhD at the University of Leuven (Belgium) where he studied the processes underlying visual shape categorization in monkeys and human subjects through single-unit physiology and psychophysics (see here). While at MIT, he began investigating the effect of learning on object recognition in monkeys and humans using fMRI in a collaboration between Jim DiCarlo and Nancy Kanwisher. |
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Sabin Dang (sdang at mit dot edu) Sabin came to work in the Kanwisher lab as a Technical Assistant after receiving a BA in Psychology at the University of Southern California. |
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Nao Gamo (nao at alum dot mit dot edu) I am a former member of the Kanwisher lab, where I enjoyed working on a project to investigate the holistic processing of own and other-race faces among Caucasian and Chinese subjects. I am currently a graduate student at Yale University, where I am working with Dr. Amy Arnsten. I am using in vivo physiology, pharmacology and behavior to explore the mechanisms of stress-induced prefrontal cognitive dysfunction and their effects on decision-making. |
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Chris Hemond (chemond at mit dot edu) Chris was an undergraduate UROPer in his senior year at MIT. And while he was happy he would be graduating in a matter of months, he greatly enjoyed being a part of the Kanwisher lab with then postdoc Hans Op De Beeck, exploring how certain areas of the brain respond to stimuli presented in different areas of the visual field. In previous semesters he studied learning effects using fMRI, and has been known to occasionally sneak out of the Kanwisher lab to visit Hans' monkeys in the Dicarlo Lab. |
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Mike Mangini (mangini at mit dot edu) My research concerns face and object recognition. My projects while with the Kanwisher Lab attempted to better understand the role of the cortical areas associated with face processing by correlating human performance on to the activity measured in these areas with fMRI. |
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Leila Reddy (lreddy at mit dot edu) I am a post-doc at the Centre de Recherche Cerveau et Cognition in Toulouse, interested in object representation and neural coding. I received my PhD in Computation and Neural Systems from the California Institute of Technology under the supervision of Professor Christof Koch, and then joined Nancy Kanwisher's lab at MIT as a post-doc. Leila was recently received a research award from the French Medical Foundation. |
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Mark Williams (mwillliam at maccs dot mq dot edu dot au) As a CJ Martin (NHMRC) Postdoctoral Fellow from the Macquarie Centre for Cognitive Science at Macquarie University, Australia, I worked with the Kanwisher lab on projects including super high-resolution functional imaging with a 32-channel head coil; super high-field strength functional imaging with a 7 Tesla human magnet; and simultaneous MEG/EEG and fMRI imaging studies. My main interests include the role of the amygdala in facial expression perception, the role of the PPA in 'place' perception, and how attention influences perception in general. I originally trained in cognitive and neuro-psychology with John Bradshaw at Monash University and then in fMRI and TMS with Jason Mattingley at the University of Melbourne. I am currently a Senior Academic (CORE) from the Macquarie Center for Cognitive Science at Macquarie University. |
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Galit Yovel (galit at freud dot tau dot ac dot il) Galit Yovel received her PhD in Psychology (Cognitive Neuroscience) from the University of Chicago in 2001. She then completed a post-doctoral training in fMRI of high level vision in the department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT. Galit joined the Department of Psychology at Tel Aviv University as a faculty member in 2005. She also received the very prestigious Alon Fellowship. Her work focuses on the cognitive neuroscience of high-level vision, face and object perception, and individual differences in visual processing. |
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Yaoda Xu (yaoda dot xu at yale dot edu) |
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Damian Stanley (das at cns dot nyu dot edu) |
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Kalanit Grill-Spector (kalanit at psych dot stanford dot edu) |
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Yuhong Jiang (jiang166 at umn dot edu) |
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Rebecca Saxe (saxe at mit dot edu) |
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Jorge Jovicich (jorge.jovicich at unitn dot it) |
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Hilary Barth (hbarth at wesleyan dot edu) |
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Ben Balas () |
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Winrich Freiwald (freiwald at brain dot uni-bremen dot de) |
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Isabel Gauthier (isabel doot gauthier at vanderbilt dot edu) |
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Paul Downing (p dot downing at bangor dot ac dot uk) |
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Zoe Kourtzi (Z dot Kourtzi at Bham dot ac dot uk) |
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Russell Epstein (epstein at psych dot upenn dot edu) |
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Jody Culham: (culham at imaging dot robarts dot ca) |
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Marvin Chun (Marvin dot Chun at yale dot edu) |
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Frank Tong (frank dot tong at vanderbilt dot edu) |
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Alex Holcombe (alexh at psych dot usyd dot edu dot au) |
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Liana Machado (liana at psy dot otago dot ac dot nz) |