Developmental computational cognitive neuroscientist at Trinity College Dublin. We scan infants to understand the emergence of cognition, and how it is disrupted by brain injury. Director of the Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience.
Infants organise their visual world into categories at two-months-old! So happy to see these results published - congratulations Cliona and the rest of the FOUNDCOG team.
1/7 Can infants recognise the world around them? 👶🧠 As part of the FOUNDCOG project, we scanned 134 awake infants using fMRI. Published today in Nature Neuroscience, our research reveals 2-month-old infants already possess complex visual representations in VVC that align with DNNs.
