James DiCarlo

James Joseph DiCarlo ist ein US-amerikanischer Neurowissenschaftler.

Er ist Peter de Florez Professor of Neuroscience am Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

DiCarlo studierte am Northwestern University und wurde 1998 an der Johns Hopkins University. Anschließend hatte er einen Postdoc-Aufenthalt am Baylor College of Medicine.

Eines seiner Forschungsgebiete ist die Objektwahrnehmung.

Schriften (Auswahl)

• de Beeck, H. P. O., Baker, C. I., DiCarlo, J. J., & Kanwisher, N. G. (2006): Discrimination training alters object representations in human extrastriate cortex. Journal of Neuroscience, 26(50), 13025-13036.
• DiCarlo, J. J., & Cox, D. D. (2007): Untangling invariant object recognition. Trends in cognitive sciences, 11(8), 333-341.
• DiCarlo, J. J., Zoccolan, D., & Rust, N. C. (2012): How does the brain solve visual object recognition?. Neuron, 73(3), 415–434.
• Yamins, D. L., Hong, H., Cadieu, C. F., Solomon, E. A., Seibert, D., & DiCarlo, J. J. (2014): Performance-optimized hierarchical models predict neural responses in higher visual cortex. Proceedings of the national academy of sciences, 111(23), 8619–8624.
• Tom Macpherson, Anne Churchland, Terry Sejnowski, James DiCarlo, Yukiyasu Kamitani, Hidehiko Takahashi, Takatoshi Hikida (2021): Natural and Artificial Intelligence: A brief introduction to the interplay between AI and neuroscience research. Neural Networks, Volume 144, 2021, Pages 603-613, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neunet.2021.09.018.
• Kar, K., & DiCarlo, J. J. (2024): The quest for an integrated set of neural mechanisms underlying object recognition in primates. Annual Review of Vision Science, 10(1), 91–121.
• Cao, R., Wang, J., Lin, C., De Falco, E., Peter, A., Rey, H. G., ... [DiCarlo, J. J.] & Wang, S. (2025): Feature-based encoding of face identity by single neurons in the human amygdala and hippocampus. Nature human behaviour, 9(9), 1959–1974.

Auszeichnungen

• 2023: Mitglied der American Academy of Arts and Sciences
• 2025: Golden Brain Award (For his seminal contributions to the study of vision and the brain)

Weblinks

• dicarlolab.mit.edu
• mcgovern.mit.edu/profile/james-dicarlo