CCN talk December 11, 2018

Nicole Rust

Associate Professor, Department of Psychology; Member, Computational Neuroscience Initiative

University of Pennsylvania

Time: 4:00-5:00

Place: Moore Hall, room 202

Beyond identification: remembering the images that we have seen

Abstract

Under the right conditions, our ability to remember whether we have encountered a particular object or scene  is remarkable - we can make these determinations after viewing tens of thousands of images, each only once, and we store these memories with exceptional visual detail. What neural processes support single-exposure visual familiarity memory? I will describe a series of combined experimental and computational projects targeted at understanding the neural correlates of visual memory in high-level visual brain areas such as inferotemporal cortex (IT).