Research

Life Sciences & Biotechnology

Title :

Neural basis of visual knowledge

Area of research :

Life Sciences & Biotechnology, Medical Sciences

Focus area :

Visual perception and recognition

Principal Investigator :

Dr. S. P Arun, Associate Professor, Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore

Timeline Start Year :

2018

Timeline End Year :

2023

Contact info :

Details

Executive Summary :

Seeing is deceptively simple for us, but it is so challenging that we have made computers play chess but still cannot make them see. It is hard because the same image can be produced by many objects and the same object can produce many images. It is widely believed that the brain resolves these ambiguities by incorporating knowledge about the world, but the nature of this knowledge is unknown. The goal of this proposal is to identify specific forms of visual object knowledge and understand their neural underpinnings. A unique strength of this project is our ability to study this problem using a variety of experimental techniques from behavior, brain imaging & perturbations in humans to single neuron recordings in monkeys and to use these data to build computational models.

Total Budget (INR):

4,38,61,950

Publications :

 
3

Outcome/Output:

NA since this is a beginning project

Organizations involved