Arash Afraz
Chief
Unit on Neurons, Circuits and Behavior
National Institute of Mental Health NCNP
Japan
Biography
Dr. Afraz received his MD from Tehran University of Medical Sciences in 2003. In 2005 he joined the Vision Science Laboratory at Harvard and studied spatial constraints of face recognition under the mentorship of Dr. Patrick Cavanagh. Dr. Afraz received his PhD in Psychology from Harvard University in 2009. Right after, he joined Dr. James DiCarlo's group at MIT as a postdoctoral fellow to study the neural underpinnings of face and object recognition. Dr. Afraz started at NIMH as a principal investigator in 2017 to lead the unit on Neurons, Circuits and Behavior (Afraz group).
Research Interest
brain function
Publications
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Neural Mechanisms Underlying Visual Object Recognition
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Afraz A, Boyden ES, DiCarlo JJ. Optogenetic and pharmacological suppression of spatial clusters of face neurons reveal their causal role in face gender discrimination. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 2015 May 26;112(21):6730-5.
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Jazayeri M, Afraz A. Navigating the Neural Space in Search of the Neural Code. Neuron. 2017 Mar 8;93(5):1003-14.
