High-risk research on hard problems in natural and artificial systems:
1) the constraints necessary to "build" a visual system
2) better articulated models of the intermediate and high-level vision
3) the organizational principles of visual cortex
4) how vision interacts with other modalities
Tools drawn from cognitive science, machine learning, computer vision, computer graphics, and large-scale neuroimaging, including fMRI, DTI, MEG, EEG