Doris Tsao | |
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Born | Changzhou, China |
Residence | United States |
Citizenship | American |
Fields |
Neuroscience Visual perception |
Alma mater |
California Institute of Technology Harvard University |
Thesis | Stereopsis (2002) |
Doctoral advisor | Margaret Livingstone |
Known for | visual perception |
Notable awards |
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Doris Ying Tsao is an American systems neuroscientist and professor at the California Institute of Technology. She is recognized for pioneering the use of fMRI with single-unit electrophysiological recordings and for discovering the macaque face patch system for face perception. She is a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator. She was named in MIT Technology Review's TR35 list in 2007. She described the code that primate's IT cortex uses to process faces.