User:Neurotechie/Robert Desimone

Robert Desimone is the director of the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT. Prior to joining McGovern Institute in 2004, he was the director of intramural research at the National Institute of Mental Health. He is a member of the US National Academy of Sciences and is recognized for his research on the brain mechanisms that underlie visual perception and attention. As a graduate student at Princeton, Desimone and his thesis supervisor Charles Gross were the first to identify neurons that respond specifically to faces. His current research focuses on the role of high-frequency oscilliations as a mechanism for controlling visual attention.