Christopher Baker
Chief
Laboratory of Brain and CognitionÂÂ
National Institute of Mental Health NCNP
Japan
Biography
Dr. Baker is Chief of the Unit on Learning and Plasticity in the Laboratory of Brain and Cognition. He received his B.A. in Neuroscience in 1995 from the University of Cambridge in England, and his Ph.D. in Psychology in 1999 from the University of St. Andrews in Scotland, where he worked with Dr. David Perrett on neurophysiological studies of visual perception. During a postdoctoral fellowship at the Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition in Pittsburgh, he worked with both Carl Olson and Marlene Behrmann on combined monkey neurophysiological and human behavioral studies of visual object representation and learning. In 2003, he moved to MIT to work with Nancy Kanwisher, using functional brain imaging techniques to investigate learning, plasticity and high-level vision in human cortex. Dr. Baker arrived at the NIMH in the fall of 2006.
Research Interest
Brain Research
Publications
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de Beeck HP, Baker CI. The neural basis of visual object learning. Trends in cognitive sciences. 2010 Jan 31;14(1):22-30.
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Kravitz DJ, Kriegeskorte N, Baker CI. High-level visual object representations are constrained by position. Cerebral Cortex. 2010 Mar 29;20(12):2916-25.
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Kravitz DJ, Saleem KS, Baker CI, Mishkin M. A new neural framework for visuospatial processing. Nature reviews. Neuroscience. 2011 Apr;12(4):217.
