Dr. Doris Tsao

Biography

Doris Tsao is a prominent Vision Scientist at the University of California, Berkeley. Her research focuses on how the brain represents the visual world, exploring this question across various levels of the visual brain. Her interests cover early and mid-level retinotopic areas and high-level regions such as the parietal and temporal lobes, as well as the prefrontal cortex. Tsao's extensive work in the field includes significant contributions to understanding visual object representation, object recognition, segmentation, and tracking. She has published numerous influential papers, including a notable review in Nature Reviews Neuroscience in 2020 and a preprint in Arxiv in 2021. Her lab currently tackles major problems, including the function of feedback in the ventral visual pathway, the visual code utilized by the primate temporal lobe, and the neural mechanisms involved in surface segmentation and 3D structure representation.

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