Margaret S Livingstone
Takeda Professor of Neurobiology, HMS
What inspires or motivates you in your role at HMS/HSDM?
I love figuring out how our brains work, how we see.
In what ways do you feel you contribute to the Harvard community?
I am a visual physiologist, so I try to figure out how we see by recording from neurons in the visual systems, but I have discovered that artists also try to figure out how we see, so I have been exploring how artists have made fundamental discoveries that we can understand in terms of neurobiology.
What is the significance of the object you brought with you to the photo shoot?
It's a print by the artist Isia Leviant, who explored how high contrast stripes adjacent to homogeneous area can induce a weird sense of motion.