I came to this lab with the goal of figuring out how visual object recognition is accomplished in the brain, and naturally, to answer the ultimate question about life, the universe and everything.

I have been spending the last couple of months scanning brains attempting to determine whether those properties of an object that are view invariant (e.g. whether the main axis is straight or curved) are emphasized in the ventral stream relative to the view sensitive ones (e.g. its degree of curvature), which seems to be the case.

That's all for now. Stay tuned.

Contact Information

Department of Psychology
University of Southern California
Image Understanding Lab HBN 316
3641 Watt Way
Los Angeles, CA 90089-2520
Phone:(213)572-8019
Email: oamir@usc.edu

This page was last updated on January, 2009