Li Zhaoping
University of Tuebingen, and, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics
Professor (Associate, Full, Senior Lecturer or above)
A new framework for understanding vision from the perspective of the primary visual cortex
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Ph.D. in Physics in 1989 from California Institute of Technology.
In 1998, my colleagues and I co-founded the Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit in University College London. From Oct. 2018, I am a professor in University of Tuebingen and the head of the Department of Sensory and Sensorimotor Systems at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics in Tuebingen, Germany. My research experience throughout the years ranges from areas in high energy physics to neurophysiology and marine biology, with most experience in understanding the brain functions in vision, olfaction, and in nonlinear neural dynamics. In late 90s and early 2000s, I proposed a theory (which is being extensively tested) that the primary visual cortex in the primate brain creates a saliency map to automatically attract visual attention to salient visual locations. I am the author of Understanding Vision: theory, models, and data , Oxford University Press, 2014.