Speaker:
Dr Thomas Carlson, Senior Lecturer,
ARC Future Fellow, Department of Cognitive
Science, Macquarie University
Date and Time:
Friday 17 October, 3 - 4pm,
followed by drinks and nibbles
Venue:
MBI Auditorium
770 Blackburn Road, Clayton
Click here for event flyer
Our capacity to recognise visual objects is mediated by multiple visual areas, in particular inferior temporal cortex (ITC). In this talk, I will describe several studies that examine how the structure of object representations emerges in the brain, and how this structure relates to behaviour.
I will first describe experiments that use brain decoding methods and magnetoencephalography (MEG) to study the emergence of object category structure. Our findings suggest that hierarchical category structure is a process of accumulating evidence in which categories solidified at early stages of processing inform more abstract category representations that emerge later.
Studies show that the structure of object representations in ITC correlate with human word usage patterns in language and that there is an important link between the geometry of brain representations and functional behaviour.
Speaker:
Dr Thomas Carlson, Senior Lecturer,
ARC Future Fellow, Department of Cognitive
Science, Macquarie University
Date and Time:
Friday 17 October, 3 - 4pm,
followed by drinks and nibbles
Venue:
MBI Auditorium
770 Blackburn Road, Clayton
Click here for event flyer
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