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The Ponce Lab focuses on understanding how brain areas interact to create perception in vision. The lab's goals include explaining how primate vision operates in natural settings by focusing on neuron functions across broad, varied spatial images rather than narrow, human-defined subsets. Additionally, they survey neurons in the visual system to study their activity and intrinsic behaviors that reflect the species' natural history. The lab aims to create a robust loop of exploratory science that involves both hypothesis generation and targeted experiments, recognizing that evolution has shaped visual computations in ways that exceed human intuition. Their research explores how deep neural networks can be useful in probing vision and advancing the understanding of brain functions primarily through biological experiments.
Administered by the Harvard Kenneth C. Griffin Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS).