Doris Tsao.

Doris Tsao

Professor of neurobiology and molecular and cell biology
University of California, Berkeley

Doris Tsao is professor of neurobiology and molecular and cell biology at the University of California, Berkeley’s Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute. She studies visual perception in primates to understand how the brain creates our sense of reality.  She is widely recognized for her work on the neural system for face processing within the temporal lobe, clarifying its anatomical organization and coding principles. Most recently, her lab discovered that this system is part of a larger map of object space.

Tsao completed her undergraduate studies in biology and mathematics at the California Institute of Technology and her Ph.D. in neuroscience from Harvard University.

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