Center for Mind, Brain, and Culture

"Inside the Lab" | Daniel Dilks interviewed by Lynne Nygaard

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Episode Notes

Daniel Dilks (dilkslab) interviewed by Lynne Nygaard, Director CMBC

BIO
Daniel D. Dilks received his Ph.D. in Cognitive Science from Johns Hopkins University in 2005, after which he became a Postdoctoral Fellow, and later a Research Fellow, in the Kanwisher Laboratory at MIT. He joined the Emory faculty in September 2013. His research focuses on three big questions about human vision: i) How is the visual cortex functionally organized?, ii) How does this functional organization get wired up in development?, and iii) Once wired up, how does visual cortex change in adulthood? To address these questions, Dilks uses a variety of methods, including psychophysics and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) in typical children, adults, and individuals with developmental disorders or brain damage, as well as transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) in typical adults - whatever it takes to answer the question. 

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RESEARCH
INTERESTS - The functional organization of human visual cortex and its origins. Cortical plasticity in adult human vision.
AREAS - Face, place, and object processing, from infancy to adulthood. Reorganization of adult human primary visual cortex, and its perceptual consequences.