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Will Xiao

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Will
Xiao
Graduate Student
Harvard University

Associated Research Module: 

  • Module 2: Memory and Executive Function
  • Module 2 Co-PI(s)

Associated Research Thrust: 

  • Neural Circuits for Intelligence
  • Co-Investigators
Advisor/s: 
Gabriel Kreiman

CBMM Publications

A. Bardon, Xiao, W., Ponce, C. R., Livingstone, M. S., and Kreiman, G., “Face neurons encode nonsemantic features”, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol. 119, no. 16, 2022.
M. Armendariz, Xiao, W., Vinken, K., and Kreiman, G., “Do computational models of vision need shape-based representations? Evidence from an individual with intriguing visual perceptions”, Cognitive Neuropsychology, pp. 1 - 3, 2022.
W. Xiao and Kreiman, G., “XDream: Finding preferred stimuli for visual neurons using generative networks and gradient-free optimization”, PLOS Computational Biology, vol. 16, no. 6, p. e1007973, 2020.
W. Xiao, Chen, H., Liao, Q., and Poggio, T., “Biologically-plausible learning algorithms can scale to large datasets.”, in International Conference on Learning Representations, (ICLR 2019), 2019.
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January 6, 2025
Evaluating how brains generalize [Harvard University]
June 23, 2022
Will Xiao, Gabriel Kreiman
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Face neurons encode nonsemantic features [video]
October 20, 2021
Will Xiao
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What you see is what IT gets: Responses in primate visual cortex during natural viewing
May 2, 2019
  IMAGE: This figure shows natural images (right) and images evolved by neurons in the inferotemporal cortex of a monkey (left). Credit: Ponce, Xiao, and Schade et al./Cell
These trippy images were designed by AI to super-stimulate monkey neurons [EurekAlert!]
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