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Our lab investigates the functional organization of the brain as a window into the architecture of the human mind. In the past our lab has contributed to the identification and characterization of a number of regions in the human brain that conduct very specific  functions, including four that are involved in the visual perception of specific kinds of stimuli (faces, places, bodies, and words), and other regions specialized for language (a collaboration with Fedorenko), understanding other minds (with Saxe), and music (with McDermott). Current work is exploring the functional organization and computations conducted in regions of the parietal and frontal cortices implicated in intuitive physics, and regions of the superior temporal sulcus implicated in high-level social perception. Many recent lines of work use artificial neural networks as computational models of human vision and as test beds for understanding which inductive biases are necessary for humanlike behavior and neural organization to arise. More broadly, we seek to understand the representations, computations, connectivity, cytoarchitecture, development, and evolution of functionally distinctive cortical regions, as well as the interactions among them and their possible alterations in clinical disorders.