Kamila Jozwik

I am a Sir Henry Wellcome fellow currently working with Jim DiCarlo and Nancy Kanwisher at MIT and Zoe Kourtzi at the University of Cambridge. I’m also a member of the Center for Brains, Minds & Machines. I am interested in modelling the visual object representations in the brain and behaviour, for human and monkey, using deep neural networks and conceptual models. 

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Research interests

Broadly I'm interested in the following questions:

• How does the primate brain process visual information? 
• More specifically - how does the primate brain recognise objects? 
• What are the underlying computations of visual processing? 

I use fMRI, EEG, MEG, behavioural measures and single-cell recording data, together with computational modelling to understand these processes better. 

Bio

After a completion of a BSc in Biotechnology at the University of Warsaw, I did an MPhil and a PhD in Biological Sciences at the University of Cambridge. My PhD was in the field of breast cancer genomics where I worked with Jason Carroll. I collaborated with Simon Baron-Cohen using genomics techniques in autism research. During the PhD, in parallel to the genomics research, I started working with Marieke Mur and Niko Kriegeskorte to gain experience in cognitive computational neuroscience, investigating feature-based and categorical representations in object recognition. Subsequently, I was a Humboldt fellow working with Radek Cichy at the Free University Berlin, studying animacy dimensions in object recognition and comparing words and images object representations.