Yaoda Xu, Ph.D.
Senior Research Scientist
Psychology Department
Yale University
New Haven, CT 06511
I study visual information representation in the human brain using both behavioral measures and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) techniques. I am interested in the involvement of the human posterior parietal cortex in supporting the adaptive and online aspect of visual information processing critical to visual working memory, decision making and behavior. I am also interested in the nature of visual representation in human occipito-temporal cortex.
My recent work evaluated CNN modeling as a viable scientific method to understand primate vision and whether there are fundamental differences in visual processing between the brain and CNNs that would limit CNN modeling as a shortcut to understand primate vision.
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I am a member of the Yale Visual Cognitive Neuroscience Lab.