Excited to share our new work “The whole is in the parts: non-holistic object parts predominate face-cell responses to illusory faces” with @kaspervinken and Marge Livingstone! biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh…

Poster day! Gongchen Yu will show how primate SC exhibits short-latency (<40ms!) face preference, and I will show what happens to that preference (and in fact, **ALL** visual activity in SC) when LGN is inactivated. Side by side, X7 & X8, today 8am-noon #SfN2023. Come say hi

Today my father would have turned 80. I've set out to run a marathon in April, in his memory. If you feel like supporting me in this goal please do! I'm fundraising to support lung cancer research. Your support would be greatly appreciated! fundraise.lungevity.org/participant/Le…

Google trends for "eyes hurt". Guess what happened in 2017...

Our preview paper just got published in Neuron, where we highlight the excellent work of John Maunsell & Supriya Ghosh on attention and Locus Coeruleus: sciencedirect.com/science/articl… With Gongchen Yu, Divya Subramanian and Rich Krauzlis

This is a line in sand, a rallying cry, and a call to arms for anyone who has suffered under tyranny of the argument that the amygdala is “evolutionary conserved”. Never again do I want to hear the tired argument that a rodent amygdala, is a monkey amygdala, is a human amygdala.

Sweet write up of our recent results— face preference in SC depends on visual cortex— by Olivia Gieger and The Transmitter. Thanks!

Meet #NEIVisionLeader, Gaby Costello, Ph.D. She studies the neuronal networks that guide our everyday choices, and how dopamine signals shape behavior. Read more about this neuronal network research at bit.ly/3ze1fpW

We are sharing this important commentary with the research community as a Commentary piece just published in the Journal of Neuroscience (SfN Journals), written by several of us (just as representatives). Also relevant to #SimCo2024. jneurosci.org/content/44/37/…

We are recruiting PhD students for this fall, to work at the interface of visual neurophysiology and machine learning. Are you enthusiastic (and ideally knowledgable :) about both? Send me an email!

New FreedmanLab paper shows that the primate superior colliculus is strongly and causally engaged in abstract cognition. shorturl.at/7qB5r #Neuroscience #UChicago University of Chicago Neuroscience Institute

I am glad to share our Bruno Averbeck Ramon Bartolo @rbartolo.bsky.social recent work published in Neuron. We examined the neural mechanisms involved in learning from the gains and losses of symbolic reinforcers in the ventral frontostriatal circuitry. 🧠authors.elsevier.com/a/1jpyf3BtfH9B…

Finally! This is the version of record; it's also the version to read, thanks to the review process at eLife. The finding was out of reach before macaque Neuropixels. eLife - the journal: Direct observation of the neural computations underlying a single decision doi.org/10.7554/eLife.…

The long gestating final chapter of my thesis is out in SfN Journals this week as a featured cover article. Thanks to all my coauthors Goris Lab Gabe Stine Eero Simoncelli Tony Movshon and Richard Perez. Short preview below 1/7: doi.org/10.1523/JNEURO…

There is a terrific independent scientist position NIH, FTE, open to any scientist working with humans in any field related to vision. Could be data science, computation, psychophysics, imaging, retinal physiology, diseases…apps received by Nov 1 fully considered. Pls R/T

Super pumped to announce that our new work “Face cells encode objects parts more than facial configuration of illusory faces” with Kasper Vinken, Akshay Jagadeesh and Marge Livingstone is now out in Nature Communications! doi.org/10.1038/s41467…