Jack Gallant

Biography

Jack Gallant, PhD, is a Research Mentor at ICSI. He is a Professor in the Department of Neuroscience at UC Berkeley, and he is also an affiliate in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and the graduate programs in Bioengineering, Biophysics and Vision Science. 

The overall goal of Dr. Gallant’s research program is to discover how information is represented in the brain under natural conditions (i.e., natural stimulation and natural tasks). He addresses two broad questions in that work: How is information about the visual world represented across the brain? And, how are these representations modulated by attention, learning and memory? His laboratory focuses primarily on using fMRI, statistical and computational modeling to produce detailed human cortical maps of information related to vision, language and decision making; systematizing human functional anatomy; characterizing individual differences in cortical organization in humans; understanding dynamic thought processes in the human brain; and decoding human brain activity. They also have an active program of research aimed at developing next-generation non-invasive brain measurement technologies that could form the basis of powerful new brain-machine interfaces.

Dr. Gallant received his PhD from Yale University and held post-doctoral positions at Caltech and Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.

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