Doris Tsao
Doris Tsao | |
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Born | Changzhou, China |
Residence | United States |
Citizenship | American |
Alma mater |
California Institute of Technology Harvard University |
Known for | visual perception |
Awards |
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Scientific career | |
Fields |
Neuroscience Visual perception |
Thesis | Stereopsis (2002) |
Doctoral advisor | Margaret Livingstone |
Doris Ying Tsao is an American systems neuroscientist and professor of biology at the California Institute of Technology. She is a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator and the director of the T&C Chen Center for Systems Neuroscience.[1] She won a MacArthur "Genius" fellowship in 2018.[2]
Tsao grew up in College Park, Maryland, attending Springbrook High School.[3] She received a B.S. in biology and mathematics from Caltech in 1996, and she completed her Ph.D. at Harvard Medical School in 2002 under Margaret Livingstone.[4] She was the head of an independent research group at the University of Bremen in Germany until 2009, when she joined the faculty at Caltech.[5]
Tsao is recognized for pioneering the use of fMRI with single-unit electrophysiological recordings and for discovering the macaque face patch system[6] for face perception.[7][8][9] She was named in MIT Technology Review's TR35 list in 2007.[10] She described a neural code that a primate's IT cortex uses to process faces.[11][12] She is serving on the Advisory Committee to the NIH Director (BRAIN Initiative Working Group 2.0) established in 2018, the group that advises on allocation of $1.511 billion toward neuroscience research. [13]
References
- ↑ Svitil, Kathy (6 December 2016). "Caltech and the Tianqiao and Chrissy Chen Institute Launch Major Neuroscience Initiative". California Institute of Technology.
- ↑ Healy, Melissa (October 4, 2018). "How does the brain see? MacArthur fellow Doris Tsao says the answer will reveal how the brain works". Los Angeles Times.
- ↑ "National Merit Semifinalists". Washington Post. 24 September 1992.
- ↑ Tsao, Doris (2006-10-06). "Eppendorf 2006 Grand Prize Winner". Science. 314 (5796): 72–73. doi:10.1126/science.314.5796.73. ISSN 0036-8075.
- ↑ "Doris Tsao - Simons Foundation". Simons Foundation. Retrieved 15 February 2018.
- ↑ TEDx Talks (2013-02-01), You Look Familiar: Unearthing the Face Within: Doris Tsao at TEDxCaltech, retrieved 2017-06-06
- ↑ "2014: Tsao". The Golden Brains. Minerva Foundation. November 2014. Retrieved 5 June 2017.
- ↑ Tsao, Doris Y.; Freiwald, Winrich A.; Knutsen, Tamara A.; Mandeville, Joseph B.; Tootell, Roger B. H. (September 2003). "Faces and objects in macaque cerebral cortex". Nature Neuroscience. 6 (9): 989–995. doi:10.1038/nn1111. ISSN 1097-6256.
- ↑ Tsao, Doris Y.; Freiwald, Winrich A.; Tootell, Roger B. H.; Livingstone, Margaret S. (2006-02-03). "A Cortical Region Consisting Entirely of Face-Selective Cells". Science. 311 (5761): 670–674. doi:10.1126/science.1119983. ISSN 0036-8075. PMC 2678572. PMID 16456083.
- ↑ Singer, Emily (2007). "Innovator Under 35: Doris Tsao, 31". MIT Technology Review. Retrieved 5 June 2017.
- ↑ Chang, Le; Tsao, Doris Y. (2017-06-01). "The Code for Facial Identity in the Primate Brain". Cell. 169 (6): 1013–1028.e14. doi:10.1016/j.cell.2017.05.011. ISSN 0092-8674. PMID 28575666.
- ↑ Sheikh, Knvul (1 June 2017). "How We Save Face--Researchers Crack the Brain's Facial-Recognition Code". Scientific American.
- ↑ "Advisory Committee to the NIH Director - Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) - National Institutes of Health (NIH)". www.braininitiative.nih.gov. Retrieved 2018-04-27.
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