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Leyla Isik is the Clare Boothe Luce Assistant Professor at Johns Hopkins University in the Department of Cognitive Science within the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences. She serves as Director of Graduate Admissions and leads the Isik Lab, which is affiliated with the Kavli Neuroscience Discovery Institute and Data Science and AI Institute.
- PhD in Cognitive Science from MIT
- Postdoctoral research at MIT and Harvard's Center for Brains, Minds, and Machines
Her research focuses on computational cognitive neuroscience, particularly how the human brain extracts social information from visual inputs. Key areas include social perception, neural networks, and AI-human comparisons. The lab develops models like SocialGNN to understand social interaction recognition.
Recent work examines dynamic social vision, action recognition, and social touch processing. Publications span journals like Nature Communications, eLife, and PLoS Computational Biology. The lab uses neuroimaging, intracranial recordings, and machine learning to study social cognition in neurotypicals and autistic individuals.
Scientific contributions include:
- Relational visual representations underlie human social interaction recognition (Nature Communications, 2023)
- Multimodal deep neural networks disentangle language from visual aesthetics (preprint, 2023)
