Charles Gilbert, Ph.D.

Arthur and Janet Ross Professor of Neuroscience at The Rockefeller University
His work has focused on the brain mechanisms of visual perception and learning. Dr. Gilbert studies the way in which the brain analyzes visual images and how this analysis is shaped by experience and by higher-order cognitive influences. A major focus of his work is plasticity of the visual cortex: the way in which cortical circuitry and function change during normal perceptual learning and during functional recovery following lesions of the central nervous system. Dr. Gilbert received an MD/PhD from Harvard Medical School, and is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a Member at Large, Section on Neuroscience, of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.