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Doris Tsao

3 years

How does perception of objects arise? Objects undergo huge changes in appearance due to deformation, perspective change, & dynamic occlusion. We prove from first principles that it’s possible, without learning, to perceive invariant objects despite this.

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Doris Tsao

@doristsao

5 years

It breaks my heart to see a postdoc’s NRSA grant rejection summary statement citing mixed undergraduate grades from a decade ago as a weakness. Reviewers: you have a lot of power to empower or discourage young people, use it wisely.

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Doris Tsao

@doristsao

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In college my life was transformed by a scholarship from @Caltech to do summer research in Germany. In the spirit of paying it forward, w/ help from @macfound , I’d like offer a 6K summer travel stipend to an undergraduate woman interested in neuroscience. Inspired by @DulacLab

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Doris Tsao

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I am excited to announce that my lab will be moving to @UCBerkeley in fall 2021. Grateful to join the incredible neuroscience community @UCBerkeleyNeuro @berkeleyMCB and become part of an institution that is truly disruptive, scientifically and culturally.

UC Berkeley MCB

@berkeleyMCB

4 years

👋 Please join us in warmly welcoming Doris Tsao to @UCBerkeley , MCB & @UCBerkeleyNeuro ! She'll join the MCB Neurobiology division & HWNI in July 2021. Learn more 👉 || @doristsao

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Doris Tsao

@doristsao

4 years

Sad to learn about the passing of Mark Konishi. A humble son of two silk weavers from Kyoto, he came to this country to study how birds learn to sing, and gained some of the first glimpses into the beauty and precision of the neural circuits that give rise to behavior.

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Doris Tsao

@doristsao

4 years

So happy to hear that the hero of my youth, Roger Penrose, has been awarded the Nobel Prize. His honesty in stating that existing physical laws can't explain consciousness influenced me hugely. I used to daydream about being his grad student.

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Doris Tsao

@doristsao

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I am beyond excited to share a new paper “Rapid, concerted switching of the neural code in inferotemporal cortex,” led by @Yuelin_Shi and Dasheng Bi. We describe a new form of neural computation in which single neurons rapidly change their tuning to temporally multiplex different…

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Doris Tsao

@doristsao

4 years

The figure below by Roger Penrose is perhaps my favorite figure of all time. It so powerfully and inspiringly rejects the notion of 'primacy' and embraces the notion of a single mystery to be solved.

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Doris Tsao

@doristsao

4 years

If you're an African American college student with dreams about understanding the brain, email me an essay about those dreams--I'd be so grateful to hear your story. I will give a 6K scholarship to one person as a tiny token of encouragement #BlackLivesMatter #HBCU #TinySteps

Ishmail Abdus-Saboor

@IshmailSaboor

4 years

Now is also the time to commit to bringing in Black graduate students. Cant find any? There are literally ~100 colleges with Black in the name (HBCUs). I went to one of them and only because Ed Marshal at Penn recruited me as a then college student, did I make it to Penn.

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Doris Tsao

@doristsao

4 years

Thank you so much for this incredible honor! The well wishes from my scientific heroes have been overwhelming. Most of all, I thank my mentors-Marge, DH, and my dad-and my amazing collaborators and lab members past and present. This moment is for you

National Academy of Sciences

@theNASciences

4 years

Today we are recognizing Dr. Doris Y. Tsao of @Caltechwith election to the National Academy of Sciences in honor of outstanding contributions to neuroscience. #NAS157 Read more at:

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Doris Tsao

@doristsao

3 years

Very excited to share a new study led by Francisco Luongo & @attractor_Lu (co-first), w/ Andy Ho, @HesseJanis , @joe_wekselblatt , @FrankLanfranchi & Daniel Huber. We tested the ability of 4 species–mouse, tree shrew, mouse lemur, and macaque–to see the figure below. (1/9)

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Doris Tsao

@doristsao

6 years

I find it unfortunate that kids applying to grad school (and even college) are all expected to have already done serious science. David Hubel started doing science at the age of 30 (so don't lose hope, late bloomers and errant explorers). @pollyp1

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Doris Tsao

@doristsao

4 years

Do single neurons matter? Or are all population codes differing by a linear transform equivalent? @irinavlh leads an exciting new study suggesting the former: activity of single neurons can be meaningful and uniquely specified. 1/2

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Doris Tsao

@doristsao

4 years

1/ Congratulations to Pinglei Bao @bobking for a remarkable finding: IT cortex contains a coarse map of object space repeated 3 times. The maps comprise the known face & body networks plus two new networks.

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Doris Tsao

@doristsao

5 years

Send me an essay describing where you want to go this summer and why. Open to undergraduate women from anywhere in the world. Please keep your essay < 1000 words, email to dortsao @caltech .edu by June 10, 2019 Please retweet

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Doris Tsao

@doristsao

2 years

A month ago, an amazing gift fell in my lap. @YiMaTweets sent me his manuscript with @harryshum on the two principles underlying Intelligence. This is a monumental paper, clarifying the puzzle of how intelligence arises through a beautiful series of deductions. (1/n)

Yi Ma

@YiMaTweets

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My personal view on Intelligence -- the most difficult jigsaw puzzle I have ever tried to understand my whole life. The paper is not an invitation for debate. Please no rushed comment or argument on this serious topic till you understand everything in it.

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Doris Tsao

@doristsao

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If you're a #BlackinSTEM student or post-doc, and need informal mentorship, someone to answer your questions about work & career stuff, opportunities to give talks, etc, I'm here. My field is systems neuroscience (visual perception)

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Doris Tsao

@doristsao

3 years

(1/16) Excited to share new work on the neural code for memories of familiar faces in macaque IT and perirhinal cortex, led by Liang She w/ @Yuelin_Shi and collaborators Marcus Benna @NeuroTheoryUCSD and @StefanoFusi2 .

The geometry of face memory

The ability to recognize familiar visual objects is critical to survival. Neurons in inferotemporal (IT) cortex represent the percept of visual objects using a distributed axis code. However, the...

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Doris Tsao

@doristsao

5 years

Heartfelt thanks to all the amazing young women who applied (from 16 countries) and shared their dreams with me. I am happy to award the scholarship to Kyoko Kusano of Keio University in Japan who plans to study consciousness in Giulio Tononi’s lab at the University of Wisconsin.

Doris Tsao

@doristsao

5 years

In college my life was transformed by a scholarship from @Caltech to do summer research in Germany. In the spirit of paying it forward, w/ help from @macfound , I’d like offer a 6K summer travel stipend to an undergraduate woman interested in neuroscience. Inspired by @DulacLab

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Doris Tsao

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3 years

Adieu, Caltech

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Doris Tsao

@doristsao

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To everyone who has been shocked and depressed by the staggering 40% cut to the BRAIN Initiative: we have a voice! Outside Witness Testimony (aka written testimony) for the FY 2025 appropriations cycle is ongoing. Deadline for the House side is Friday May 3 and the Senate side…

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@doristsao

6 years

Responses were irreproducible from trial to trial, he was totally frustrated...then he discovered the beautiful reason for the lack of reproducibility: LEC cells are actually coding flow of time. So proud of my brother Albert!

Lisa Giocomo

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Lateral entorhinal cortex neurons represent our sense of time within experiences and memory. Fantastic work by Albert Tsao and colleagues @KISNeuro @NTNU in @nature

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Doris Tsao

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This is unbelievable. How can a country that cares about the future begrudge $300 million to unlock the secrets of the mind and cure the most devastating ailments of the soul? This is 0.0035% of the federal budget. If you make 100k a year, this works out to $3.50. A coffee to…

TK Kozai (BIONICLab.org)

@BIONIC_Lab

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As some of you are well aware, the BRAIN Initiative funding was cut by 40% (). “This is truly awful, This large cut to the BRAIN Initiative is, simply put, going to kill jobs and hurt patients over the next 10-20 years.” – Kip Ludwig, PhD

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Doris Tsao

@doristsao

3 years

Interested in helping run a lab to understand visual perception in primates? The Tsao lab @UCBerkeley is looking for a new lab manager. Vet tech and/or previous NHP experience a plus, but also open to other highly motivated candidates. We do ephys, fMRI, and much more. Please RT

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Doris Tsao

@doristsao

3 years

Huge congratulations to the one and only Nicole Rust @VisualMemoryLab on the 2021 NAS Troland Research Award! Nicole brings such elegance, computational rigor, and creativity to understanding the wilderness of visual memory

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Doris Tsao

@doristsao

4 years

1/5 “Having conscious experience is arguably the most important reason why it matters to us whether we are alive or dead” And this is just the first line in the new work by the amazing Janis Hesse

Representation of conscious percept without report in the macaque face patch network

A powerful paradigm to identify the neural correlates of consciousness is binocular rivalry, wherein a constant visual stimulus evokes a varying conscious percept. It has recently been suggested that...

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Doris Tsao

@doristsao

1 year

Does anyone else feel existential sadness and depression this week? #gpt

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Doris Tsao

@doristsao

6 years

Every once in a blue moon, you come across a creative work that defies its time and place. "The epistemological problem for automata" by Donald Mackay (1956) is one of those revelations. A hierarchy of dynamic receptive fields can learn new concepts.

mackay_automata.pdf

drive.google.com

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Doris Tsao

@doristsao

5 years

Christmas dimsum with my lab. We speak 7 languages (not counting python and matlab). 新年快乐!

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@doristsao

3 years

An oft-told story in the field of consciousness studies is that activity in V1 reflects the physical stimulus while activity in IT cortex reflects only what is consciously perceived. It’s an appealing story, but @HesseJanis shows it’s not true.

A new no-report paradigm reveals that face cells encode both consciously perceived and suppressed...

Conscious visual percepts are encoded by face patches in the absence of report, can be decoded from population recordings, and are multiplexed with the veridical physical stimulus.

elifesciences.org

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Doris Tsao

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8 months

It's been a long time since I read an experimental paper that changed my view of how the brain works. This extraordinary paper does that, showing massive intelligent information transfer within LIP, and challenging the concept of LIP as a stepstone to allocentric representation.

Michael Shadlen

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Interested in Parietal lobe function (and disorders), spatial frames of reference, enactivism/embodiment (intentional framework), decision-making, remapping? Check out NaYoung So's

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Hojin Jang and Frank Tong make a compelling case that training DNNs with blurry images (which we're constantly subjected to for objects outside our focal plane) substantially increases alignment with human vision. Blur-trained DNNs explain human fMRI responses better and show…

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Doris Tsao

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6 months

So many puzzles about face processing have suddenly become clear to me in the last few days. I cannot wait to share...

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Doris Tsao

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2 months

@SuryaGanguli Heard a podcast about Feynman yesterday in the car, where @presk made an interesting, against the grain comment about Feynman that I appreciated (even though reading Feynman Volume 1 is how I fell in love with science): "It’s not the best advice necessarily for all students,…

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Doris Tsao

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1 year

Interested in helping run a lab to understand visual perception in primates? Tsao lab @UCBerkeley is looking for a new lab manager. Perfect for highly motivated candidates who want to gain deep research experience before grad school. Experience with NHPs is a plus. Please RT🙏

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Doris Tsao

@doristsao

4 years

Breaking news: a wonderful colleague which wishes to remain anonymous has decided to pitch in 6K to fund a second scholarship! I'm delighted to announce the winner, Nicole Coates, who hopes to pursue a PhD in cognitive science @BlackInNeuro

Doris Tsao

@doristsao

4 years

To all the young Black men and women who sent me essays: I’m profoundly grateful. It’s incredible how you've overcome all barriers to enter Neuroscience, driven by curiosity & desire to improve the world. You’re amazing & each of you deserves a scholarship @BlackInNeuro

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@doristsao

4 years

Our new paper comparing many different computational models for explaining face representation in IT cortex is out. The study was led by the amazing Le Chang, with collaborators @VisionBernie and Thomas Vetter.

bioRxiv

@biorxivpreprint

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What computational model provides the best explanation of face representations in the primate brain? #bioRxiv

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Doris Tsao

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The perception of occlusion is amazing.

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Doris Tsao

@doristsao

5 years

My brother is in the New Yorker:

The Neurons That Tell Time

The discovery of brain structures that apparently mark time has raised a larger question: What is time, anyway?

www.newyorker.com

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Doris Tsao

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2 years

I am so happy to finally see this in print: Next step: to see this in the brain

A topological solution to object segmentation and tracking | Proceedings of the National Academy of...

The world is composed of objects, the ground, and the sky. Visual perception of objects requires solving two fundamental challenges: 1) segmenting ...

www.pnas.org

Doris Tsao

@doristsao

3 years

How does perception of objects arise? Objects undergo huge changes in appearance due to deformation, perspective change, & dynamic occlusion. We prove from first principles that it’s possible, without learning, to perceive invariant objects despite this.

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3 years

This Master's Thesis by Gerben van den Broeke on generative models and how the brain discovers structure in the world is amazing. It's the most lucid, inspiring, joy sparking piece of scientific writing I've read in a long while.

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Doris Tsao

@doristsao

4 years

I’m delighted to announce the winner of the scholarship, @ghezae_isaias from UCSB. His early experience with injustice has taken him on a thrilling intellectual path. Read his inspiring story & share in his joy of discovery, borne of pain @BlackInNeuro

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4 years

An understanding advisor makes all the difference. It’s special to get this together with Marge Livingstone (who should’ve been elected ages ago). Me, scared to ask if I could join the lab: 'Can I talk to you about my future?' Marge: 'Yes, I already ordered an amplifier for you.'

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Doris Tsao

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1 year

I once heard @ylecun give a talk where he said 'either god exists or the world is compositional.' I love this so much--it explains everything from the reductionist basis for science to the reason why generative models of reality can exist to why the brain is modular.

Shahab Bakhtiari

@ShahabBakht

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I very much agree with @markdhumphries that evolution doesn't care what we call a brain area. But, what evolution might care about is modularity as an efficient way of expanding a constantly adapting system. A 🧵:

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Doris Tsao

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4 years

I wrote an essay in honor of Charlie Gross. It's a celebration of the lone explorer, a story about the ups and downs of scientific fortune, and a reply to the perennial argument that recording from single neurons doesn't tell us much about the brain.

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Doris Tsao

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9 months

Segmentation remains one of the most fundamental yet poorly understood processes of vision. @HesseJanis has discovered one important new puzzle piece: functional modules specialized for segmentation distributed across extrastriate cortex (V2, V3, V3A, V4, and V4A)

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Excited to share that we found modules in visual cortex for segmenting a visual scene into objects. Find more details in our paper just published in PNAS () or the summary thread below: (1/8)

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Doris Tsao

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5 years

To everyone who was offended: I apologize for my clumsy and unintentionally hurtful phrasing. I actually was trying to make the point that people who do three postdocs can be extraordinary, the fact they continue to persevere is a strength, and I'm married to such a person.

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5 years

A group of tenured PIs trying to do a simple experiment

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6 years

A toy model of consciousness :) green wheel = world, red wheel = brain. The structure of the red wheel encodes the structure of the green wheel. Reminds me of Matilde Marcolli's lecture on Manin's theory of neural codes and homotopy types.

Fermat's Library

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The Geneva Drive: a mechanism that translates a continuous rotation movement into intermittent discrete motion. (used in mechanical watches, movie projectors, banknote counting machines)

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6 years

Greg made this for me for my birthday. He even included electodes and new cortical targets, cause he knows I'm not just the face patch girl.

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@doristsao

6 years

A beautiful idea in search of evidence:

An illustrated overview of how our brains (might) think — the fascinating intuition of the…

“Perception is controlled hallucination.”

medium.com

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@doristsao

4 years

Another wonderful colleague who wishes to remain anonymous has stepped up and offered to provide a 6K Rising Star in Neuroscience Scholarship to a young Black scientist with big dreams. I am so happy to announce the winner, Jonathan Daniels @JSDaniels97 @BlackInNeuro #blackinstem

Doris Tsao

@doristsao

4 years

If you're an African American college student with dreams about understanding the brain, email me an essay about those dreams--I'd be so grateful to hear your story. I will give a 6K scholarship to one person as a tiny token of encouragement #BlackLivesMatter #HBCU #TinySteps

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6 years

IT cortex contains two regions where cells code object colors largely invariant to their shape. One of them codes all the colors of the rainbow, while the other is specialized for red/yellow objects.

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Doris Tsao

@doristsao

7 years

Play on this idea: neurosci depts could hire small teams of young scientists with common goal, not just individuals.

International Brain Laboratory

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7 years

Today marks official launch of the IBL—21 labs working to understand the neural basis of foraging & decision making!

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3 years

When will the darkness lift? Heartbroken over the senseless death of my sisters

The Associated Press

@AP

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Many of the seven people shot to death Tuesday at massage parlors in Georgia were women of Asian descent, authorities say. The shootings took place at two businesses in the Atlanta area and at a third parlor northwest of the city.

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I think my most heretical idea is that the brain possesses a whole palette of different labels to label distinct surfaces, not just "figure" and "ground". In other words, we can directly perceive that two objects is different from one. Surprising how few people agree with me on…

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@ThomasMiconi @doristsao What were her heretical ideas?

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6 years

Thanks from bottom of my heart to @ClaireWyart for bringing us all together at FENS for one of the most meaningful musical experiences of my life.

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5 years

Don’t count on your professor knowing anything, because they’re too busy writing grants, traveling, and sitting on committees to have time to mind such trivialities as the research happening in their lab.

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6 years

Last night's #Feynman100 celebration at Caltech triggered so many emotions...love for Caltech, sense of nostalgia, realization that when you spend all your time thinking (or not), it changes your character...it's not sth you can hide.

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4 years

At 20, I sent an email to a dozen professors across Harvard asking for book recommendations. Today, I want to send an email to all my colleagues asking for tips on how to deal with email

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I am hearing so many heartbreaking stories about scientists who had exciting proposals lined up, or even great scores on already reviewed grants, now confronted with "Canceled" signs everywhere. When I was looking for a job, I was told not to accept an offer outside the US…

Doris Tsao

@doristsao

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To everyone who has been shocked and depressed by the staggering 40% cut to the BRAIN Initiative: we have a voice! Outside Witness Testimony (aka written testimony) for the FY 2025 appropriations cycle is ongoing. Deadline for the House side is Friday May 3 and the Senate side…

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Did you know that @AstroBehnken 's PhD advisor was @Caltech 's own Richard Murray, incoming chair of Biology & Biological Engineering?

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Good splashdown of Dragon confirmed! Welcome back to Earth, @AstroBehnken and @Astro_Doug !

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I have also followed this situation with appalled fascination. As children, we are taught simple commands, “Do not lie.” “Do no steal.” “Do not cheat.” But then we grow up and learn about the real world. And it turns out that in order not to lie, sometimes you have to lie. This…

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@WiringTheBrain I'm teaching a new class in the spring on neuroscience, film, and philosophy, where we watch movies, talk about brains, and speculate about philosophical conundrums. Thank you for writing this great course syllabus! :)

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How does the brain build a model of the visual world? Come see how we’re tackling this problem, across tree shrews, monkeys, and humans, across temporal and parietal cortex, and across perception, memory, and consciousness. Tuesday AM, poster session 488 #SfN2019

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Thank you @alison_c_abbott for spending time with me and for writing such a thoughtful piece, even though I still have zero @nature papers.

nature

@Nature

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Meet Doris Tsao, the neuroscientist who cracked the brain's facial recognition code.

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I wrote a review with @HesseJanis about the macaque face patch system. Apologies to those who find the title gruesome, it's meant to convey how the face patches make seemingly inaccessible questions about the brain tractable

The macaque face patch system: a turtle’s underbelly for the brain

Nature Reviews Neuroscience - Faces represent important objects to primates. In this Review, Janis Hesse and Doris Tsao provide a comprehensive overview of the face patch system in macaques. They...

www.nature.com

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Tirin Moore @StanfordBrain @HHMINEWS will receive the 2021 NAS Pradel Research Award recognizing his groundbreaking contributions to understanding visual attention! Congrats Tirin!!!

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Great science stands the test of time. In a way, all my work has just been about clarifying this one paragraph from Charlie Gross. I will miss him.

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The treatment of Prof. Nikos Logothetis by the MPI @MaxPlanckPress is shameful. Please see a summary of the situation and statements of support by scientists worldwide (including myself) here:

Open Letter Regarding the Max Planck Society’s Actions Against MPI-BC Director Prof. Logothetis

[Note: This letter is from scientists, some of whom are members of the Speaking of Research committee. They include: Allyson J. Bennett, J. David Jentsch, Juan Carlos Marvizon, Amanda M. Dettmer,…

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In 99/100 cases, people who do three postdocs have a fatal weakness. In 1/100 cases, it's because they stay true to their dream despite all obstacles: Greg's dream is to program molecules and build new forms of life. He is just getting started.

Greg Tikhomirov

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Honored to be the 2019 recipient of Dirks Molecular Programming Prize. Extremely grateful to my advisor Lulu Qian and the Dirks Prize Committee. #FNANO

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Dear @congressdotgov : Why don't lawmakers propose laws in the spirit of scientific hypotheses? For example: "Let's ban guns for a year and count # of gun deaths. If there's no reduction, we revert to current law." Perhaps we can converge to the ideal society faster?

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My success as a woman in science is thanks to Mao Zedong. My dad's absolute belief in me gave me my self confidence. He in turn was strongly influenced by Mao's belief in intellectual equality of men and women.

Kay M Tye PhD

@kaymtye

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“If sexual harassment, misconduct, and retaliation are the firing squads that assassinate individual careers, then implicit bias is the lead in the water that poisons the entire town.” #BiasAwareness #MeTooSTEM #WomenInScience #SAIDinSTEM

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Incredible discovery from Lea Goentoro. Also, best first sentence ever: "In contrast to humans’ poor ability to regenerate, the animal world is filled with seemingly Homeric tales: a creature that regrows when halved or a whole animal growing from a small body piece."

ElowitzLab

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Wow - such stunning findings, and so beautifully written.

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Am so grateful to the amazing scientists who shared their work with us at yesterday's symposium. Many lessons: 1) textbooks are probably wrong (e.g., turns out speech is not generated by Broca's area, but a different area entirely), 2) a new field is emerging in neuroscience,

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6 years

James Joyce accidentally summarizes my research program to understand the binding problem:

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@doristsao

4 years

Completely agree! An object is a remarkable invention of the brain, a unit of information organization essential to survival.

Melanie Mitchell

@MelMitchell1

4 years

Saturday night in the time of social distancing: Reading Brian Cantwell Smith's "The Promise of Artificial Intelligence." It's not easy reading, but here's an important idea (p. 35):

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Happy this is now published in elife:

Mice and primates use distinct strategies for visual segmentation

The behavioral ability of mice and treeshrews to detect visual figures is highly texture dependent, unlike that of primates including macaques and mouse lemurs, and neural responses to figures in...

elifesciences.org

Doris Tsao

@doristsao

3 years

Very excited to share a new study led by Francisco Luongo & @attractor_Lu (co-first), w/ Andy Ho, @HesseJanis , @joe_wekselblatt , @FrankLanfranchi & Daniel Huber. We tested the ability of 4 species–mouse, tree shrew, mouse lemur, and macaque–to see the figure below. (1/9)

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5 years

This was Uncle Syd’s advice to grad students…and to PIs as well

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@doristsao

4 years

Congratulations Dr @HesseJanis ! If anyone will figure out the secret behind this image, I know you will.

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@doristsao

2 years

Heard two wildly inspiring talks yesterday involving NLP, from @pouget_alex and @blaiseaguera . Proves why I need to go to conferences, despite comfort of covid cocoon. Tim Hanson puts it well: 'conferences are great for discovering unknown unknowns' #NAISys #ContinualLearning

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@doristsao

4 years

So interesting to read this, especially as someone with the fortune to be a colleague of his son Erik, who carries on the tradition of blazing originality and kindness to the next generation, someone who sees science as something beautiful to share

Steven Strogatz

@stevenstrogatz

4 years

A book and a letter that changed my life. After I read The Geometry of Biological Time, I wrote to its author and asked if I could come work with him. His reply, scrawled in his characteristic magic marker, led to his becoming my most important mentor.

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@doristsao

4 years

At the same time, I will be sad to leave @Caltech , the place of my dreams since I was 15.

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@doristsao

3 years

Looking forward to this (and I'd look forward even to being a fly on the wall with these human intelligences)

MONTREAL.AI

@Montreal_AI

3 years

23 December 2020: #AIDebate2 Daniel Kahneman Celeste Kidd Rich Sutton Francesca Rossi Judea Pearl Christof Koch Adam Marblestone Doris Tsao Ken Stanley Barbara Tversky and more TBA with Gary Marcus (moderator & co-organizer) RSVP: #MontrealAI #AIDebate

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@doristsao

6 years

Sad to hear Anne Treisman has died. My dream is to find the object pointer that she so elegantly showed must exist. I wish I could have met her.

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@doristsao

5 months

I will end on a speculation. Could this new mechanism for neural representation be fundamental to intelligence? Cognition is at heart a process of dissecting hierarchical structure, and a mechanism to switch attention from the whole (face detection) to the parts (detailed face…

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@doristsao

22 days

Sad to hear this. On a light note, I once wrote to him asking if he would be willing to have a zoom chat. In response, I received the most clever auto-reply message ever:

Anil Seth

@anilkseth

22 days

The great Daniel Dennett has died. Terribly sad news. He was a wonderful philosopher and a wonderful human being. I will miss him greatly as I know so many others will too.

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@doristsao

5 years

As we explore new brain regions beyond face patches, I take a personal look back…

Scientific American

@sciam

5 years

Researchers have isolated the brain regions that process faces and cracked the code for recognizing them. Learn more in the February issue, available now:

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@doristsao

3 years

There are certain rare individuals in science who care vitally not just for their own next discovery, but for the progress of the field as a whole, the struggles and successes of all those who love the same problem they love. All of us, near or far, can sense their presence (1/2)

Peter Bandettini

@fMRI_today

3 years

This past summer, Leslie Ungerleider won the Organization for Human Brain Mapping Glass Brain Award - its highest honor. Following the award, she was interviewed by Aina Puce @aina_puce . It's both captivating and deeply inspiring. @OHBM

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Doris Tsao

@doristsao

5 years

Soooo happy to learn that Vanessa Ruta and Josh Tenenbaum, two of my favorite scientists in the whole world, are new MacArthur fellows. Every encounter with Vanessa has left me in awe. I probably think about Josh's ideas once a day.

MacArthur Foundation

@macfound

5 years

Creativity knows no limits. Meet the 2019 MacArthur Fellows ( #MacFellow ), 26 inspiring individuals who are reframing problems, making discoveries, and bettering the world for everyone. 🧠 Explore this year's list and their work:

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@doristsao

4 years

Kobe, you have no idea how many people you've touched, including a Caltech scientist without the slightest understanding of basketball

Greg Tikhomirov

@nanoassembly

4 years

Kobe Bryant shows how to be a better parent and person speaking to his children during jersey retirement two years ago

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@doristsao

6 years

Why do category-selective areas exist? We suggest it may be to facilitate clutter-invariant recognition. Category selectivity + normalization leads neurons to perform winner-take-all for the preferred category in cluttered situations:

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Doris Tsao

@doristsao

4 years

Because science has no borders! BS in EE, PhD in EECS, Professor of Control & Dynamical Systems and Bioengineering Chair of Caltech Engineering and Applied Science (2000-2005) and Biology and Biological Engineering (2020 -). Congratulations to Caltech!

Caltech

@Caltech

4 years

Richard Murray (BS '85) has been named as Chair of Caltech's Division of Biology and Biological Engineering.

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@doristsao

4 years

To all the young Black men and women who sent me essays: I’m profoundly grateful. It’s incredible how you've overcome all barriers to enter Neuroscience, driven by curiosity & desire to improve the world. You’re amazing & each of you deserves a scholarship @BlackInNeuro

Doris Tsao

@doristsao

4 years

If you're an African American college student with dreams about understanding the brain, email me an essay about those dreams--I'd be so grateful to hear your story. I will give a 6K scholarship to one person as a tiny token of encouragement #BlackLivesMatter #HBCU #TinySteps

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Doris Tsao

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2 years

On cloud 9 after reading this beautiful, brilliant perspective by Qasim Zaidi on 3d vision. An homage to Poincare’s insight that the origin of 3d vision is the isomorphism between the groupoid of transformations between perspectives & the motion groupoid.

The reasonable effectiveness of contours in vision | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

The reasonable effectiveness of contours in vision

www.pnas.org

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Doris Tsao

@doristsao

3 years

Could machinery for texture-invariant visual surface segmentation even have played a role in setting the human trajectory?

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@doristsao

4 years

I want to use my ephemeral limelight to give hugs to all clinically shy people in science. Seeing people still fills me with anxiety. I used to actually flee. Even if you feel you don’t belong, watching others conspiring and laughing and backslapping, you’ll find your path

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Doris Tsao

@doristsao

4 years

@EricMTrautmann Agree, Eric! I found the demo hugely inspiring--suggests a new era of neuroscience, where you can just take your animal to the surgery robot to get thousands of electrodes implanted wherever you need. Only massive $$$ and focus could bring this level of engineering.

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Doris Tsao

@doristsao

6 years

Sydney Brenner: 'The young have a great advantage in that they are ignorant. Because I think ignorance in science is very important. If you’re like me and you know too much you can’t try new things. I always work in fields of which I’m totally ignorant.'

Paperpile

@paperpile

6 years

Nobel Laureate Sidney Brenner has problems with the current state of academic publishing: "I think peer review is hindering science. In fact, I think it has become a completely corrupt system." @Kings_review

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Doris Tsao

@doristsao

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We got caught up in the excitement of ultrasonic neuromodulation six years ago. Two new papers on bioarxiv including one from our lab suggest caution is warranted: we find ultrasound causes strong auditory responses but so far we find no evidence of direct neuromodulation.

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