Jon Willie

3 weeks ago | nature.com | Runnan Cao |Chujun Lin |Emanuela De Falco |Jon Willie |James DiCarlo |Xin Li

AbstractNeurons in the human amygdala and hippocampus are classically thought to encode a person’s identity invariant to visual features. However, it remains largely unknown how visual information from higher visual cortical areas is translated into such a semantic representation of an individual person.

Feb 9, 2025 | nature.com | Runnan Cao |Cory S Inman |Xin Li |Adam N. Mamelak |Jon Willie

AbstractHow the brain encodes, recognizes, and memorizes general visual objects is a fundamental question in neuroscience. Here, we investigated the neural processes underlying visual object perception and memory by recording from 3173 single neurons in the human amygdala and hippocampus across four experiments. We employed both passive-viewing and recognition memory tasks involving a diverse range of naturalistic object stimuli.