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David Heeger is a Silver Professor and Professor of Psychology and Neural Science at New York University. His research focuses on computational neuroscience, neural circuits, and cognitive modeling. He leads the Computational Neuroimaging Laboratory and has contributed extensively to understanding visual perception, attention mechanisms, and cortical processing.
- B.A. in Mathematics (University of Pennsylvania, 1983)
- Ph.D. in Computer Science (University of Pennsylvania, 1987)
- Postdoctoral Fellowship at MIT Media Lab (1987-1990)
- Former faculty at Stanford University (1991-2002)
His research spans Neuroscience, Machine Learning, and Visual Perception. Key contributions include normalization models in neural circuits, computational frameworks for attention dynamics, and neuroimaging techniques. Recent work explores traveling waves in the visual cortex, hypoxia effects on cognition, and applications of recurrent neural networks.
Scientific awards include:
- David Marr Prize in computer vision (1987)
- Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship (1994)
- Troland Award from the National Academy of Sciences (2002)
- Margaret and Herman Sokol Faculty Award (2006)
His publications (15 most recent) address topics ranging from attention mechanisms in binocular rivalry to arterial oxygen desaturation impacts on cognitive performance, normalization in neural networks, and cortical dynamics in visual processing.
