DICARLO LAB

Visual processing is central to human quality of life and human well being. We believe that the scientific understanding we seek will illuminate novel ways to ameliorate brain disorders via sensory modulation, will guide the development of visual prosthetics to restore lost vision, will guide the development of new human-like AI systems, and will provide a scientific basis for predicting how molecular approaches might or might not be used to repair lost or disrupted visual abilities. Because visual intelligence is a critical component of much of human cognition, the understanding we seek will also be foundational to a complete scientific understanding of memory, planning, reasoning, decision and action... Looking beyond visual mechanisms, because the key cortical circuitry is similar in all sensory brain areas, the computational algorithms we aim to discover will also contribute to an understanding of how the brain processes other sensory infromation, such as tactile and auditory..

Primary location: Cambridge United States