How do brain areas interact to create the perception of vision?
The goals and philosophy of our lab are
(1) To explain primate vision as it operates in natural settings, focusing on how each neuron functions across the broad and varied space of images rather than within narrow, human defined subsets.
(2) To survey neurons across the visual system and study their activity during intrinsic behaviors that reflect the species’ natural history.
(3) To create a robust loop of exploratory science (i.e., hypothesis generation) with targeted experiments (i.e., hypothesis testing), recognizing that evolution has shaped visual computations in ways that often exceed human intuition.
While deep neural networks provide useful ways to probe vision, we advance our understanding of the brain primarily through biological experiments.
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Publications
Our most recent work appears in Cell Reports, Nature Communications, Cell, and as machine learning proceedings.
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Ponce Lab
Department of Neurobiology
Boston, MA 02115