Event

NACS Seminar: "Understanding visual representations in human occipito-temporal..."

Friday, November 3, 2023
10:15 a.m.
1103 Bioscience Research Building
https://nacs.umd.edu/event/nacs-seminar-dr-yaoda-xu-0

Speaker: Yaoda Xu (Yale University.)

Title: "Understanding visual representations in human occipito-temporal and posterior parietal cortices and convolutional neural networks"

Abstract: In recent studies we show that non-spatial visual information, including the content of visual working memory, may be directly represented in the human posterior parietal cortex (PPC). In this talk, I will compare visual representations in the human PPC with those in the human occipito-temporal cortex and describe how together they provide us with both a stable representation of our visual environment and allow us to interact with the external world flexibly and efficiently. Using methods developed in neuroscience, I will also examine the nature of visual representations in convolutional neural networks trained to perform object recognition.