Ken Nakayama

Research work concentrates on visual perception broadly understood. This includes an analysis of the visual environment that gives rise to sampled images, the psychological properties of visual perception, and the underlying brain mechanisms that are responsible for vision. He is interested in the coding of visual information in the visual cortex, particularly as it is related to the encoding of surfaces and is also interested in understanding the phenomenon of visual attention and the deployment of eye movements to points of interest in the environment. Most recently, he has become interested in object recognition, particularly the recognition of human faces.