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James V. Haxby is a Professor in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Dartmouth College, where he leads the Haxby Lab, part of the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience. His research focuses on computational cognitive neuroscience, neural decoding, and the development of hyperalignment techniques to model shared neural information across individuals. He holds a B.A. from Carleton College and a Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota.
Education:
- B.A., Carleton College
- Ph.D., University of Minnesota
Research Interests: James’s work emphasizes hyperalignment, functional topography analysis, and fMRI studies of visual and social cognition. His lab develops open-source tools like PyMVPA and the HyperBrain project to standardize neuroimaging data. Key projects include modeling individualized neural architectures and exploring how attention influences semantic representation.
Lab & Collaborations: His lab collaborates internationally (e.g., the 'Monkey Kingdom' project) and has produced influential studies on face perception, object recognition, and neural representation spaces. Current and past students include Vassiki Chauhan, Matteo Visconti, and Samuel Nastase. The lab actively seeks researchers for projects like HyperBase, aiming to build normative neuroimaging datasets.
Grants & Resources: Recent funding supports the HyperBase initiative. The lab emphasizes open science, sharing software and data via their website and GitHub repositories.
