MIT is arguably one of the finest centers in the world for research in mid and high-level vision. Listed below are several laboratories in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences that are engaged in exploring fundamental issues in these domains using a variety of approaches. The diversity of techniques used in these laboratories and the close interactions between them make for a uniquely comprehensive research effort to understand how the brain interprets images of the visual world.

The Adelson Lab

Scene representation and surface perception

The Kanwisher Lab

Cognitive neuroscience of high-level vision

The Miller Lab

Neural basis of memory and cognition

The Poggio Lab

Computational theories of learning

The Potter Lab

Attention, comprehension and memory

The Richards Lab

Natural computation

The Schiller Lab

Visual and oculomotor systems

The Sinha Lab

Object representation and top-down influences