Nicole Rust
University of Pennsylvania
Professor (Associate, Full, Senior Lecturer or above)
Titles:
Beyond recognition: remembering what we've seen
Seeing and remembering what we've seen
Keywords: Visual memory; visual recognition memory; visual familiarity; image memorability; memory encoding; population decoding; computational models; deep neural networks
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Nicole Rust received her Ph.D. in neuroscience from New York University, advised by Tony Movshon and Eero Simoncelli. She then trained as a postdoctoral researcher at Massachusetts Institute of Technology with Jim DiCarlo. In 2009, she became an assistant professor at the University of Pennsylvania and in 2016 she was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure. Dr. Rust’s research program focuses on the neural mechanisms responsible for our remarkable ability to remember whether an object or scene has been encountered before. To approach these problems, her lab combines behavioral and neural data collected as subjects perform visual tasks with computational data analysis and modeling.