Jeremy Freeman
I study vision. I want to know how the brain uses the pattern of light hitting the eye to infer complex properties of natural scenes, like form, texture, and object identity.
I do this research as a Ph.D candidate at the Center for Neural Science at New York University. I work with Profs. Eero Simoncelli, David Heeger, Denis Pelli, and Michael Landy. We use computational modeling and psychophysics to build formal descriptions of visual inference, and we use neuroimaging to link these descriptions to the physiology of the human visual system. Some topics I’ve been working on recently include visual crowding, the neural correlates of object recognition, the neural representation of texture, hierarchical statistical models of texture, and the retinotopic organization of visual cortex.