Winrich Freiwald

Winrich Freiwald
Winrich
Freiwald
Investigator
Rockefeller University
Lab Affiliation(s):  Laboratory of Neural Systems

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Dr. Freiwald, a native of Oldenburg, Germany, performed his graduate work at the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research in Frankfurt and received his Ph.D. from Tübingen University in 1998. He then joined the Institute for Brain Research at the University of Bremen as a research assistant. Starting in 2001, he worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School and the Hanse Institute for Advanced Study in Delmenhorst, Germany. He was head of the primate brain imaging group at the Centers for Advanced Imaging and Cognitive Sciences in Bremen from 2004 to 2008 and a visiting associate at the California Institute of Technology in 2009. He joined The Rockefeller University as assistant professor in 2009. Dr. Freiwald was named a Pew Scholar in 2010 and a McKnight Scholar in 2011; he also received an Esther and Joseph Klingenstein Fellowship in 2010, a Sinsheimer Scholarship in 2010 and an Irma T. Hirschl/Monique Weill-Caulier Trusts Research Award in 2009.He is a NYSCF-Robertson Investigator.

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Current Advisees

Ben Deen - Postdoc
Lucas Tian - Postdoc

Past Advisees

Farid Aboharb - Graduate Student
Julia Sliwa - Postdoc

Projects

Biologically Plausible Implementations of i-theory for feedforward face recognition and object recognition in the ventral stream
Computational Principles of Macaque Face Processing System

CBMM Publications

W. A. Freiwald and Hosoya, H., “Neuroscience: A Face’s Journey through Space and Time”, Current Biology, vol. 31, no. 1, pp. R13 - R15, 2021.
I. Sani, Stemmann, H., Caron, B., Bullock, D., Stemmler, T., Fahle, M., Pestilli, F., and Freiwald, W. A., “The human endogenous attentional control network includes a ventro-temporal cortical node”, Nature Communications, vol. 12, no. 1, 2021.
C. Yang, Zhou, Y., Marcus, S., Formenti, G., Bergeron, L. A., Song, Z., Bi, X., Bergman, J., Rousselle, M. Marie C., Zhou, C., Zhou, L., Deng, Y., Fang, M., Xie, D., Zhu, Y., Tan, S., Mountcastle, J., Haase, B., Balacco, J., Wood, J., Chow, W., Rhie, A., Pippel, M., Fabiszak, M. M., Koren, S., Fedrigo, O., Freiwald, W. A., Howe, K., Yang, H., Phillippy, A. M., Schierup, M. Heide, Jarvis, E. D., and Zhang, G., “Evolutionary and biomedical insights from a marmoset diploid genome assembly”, Nature, 2021.
Z. Yang and Freiwald, W. A., “Joint encoding of facial identity, orientation, gaze, and expression in the middle dorsal face areaSignificance”, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol. 118, no. 33, 2021.
S. M. Landi, Viswanathan, P., Serene, S., and Freiwald, W. A., “A fast link between face perception and memory in the temporal pole”, Science, p. eabi6671, 2021.
W. A. Freiwald, “The neural mechanisms of face processing: cells, areas, networks, and models”, Current Opinion in Neurobiology, vol. 60, pp. 184 - 191, 2020.
I. Yildirim, Belledonne, M., Freiwald, W. A., and Tenenbaum, J. B., “Efficient inverse graphics in biological face processing”, Science Advances, vol. 6, no. 10, p. eaax5979, 2020.
D. J. Schaeffer, Selvanayagam, J., Johnston, K. D., Menon, R. S., Freiwald, W. A., and Everling, S., “Face selective patches in marmoset frontal cortexAbstract”, Nature Communications, vol. 11, no. 1, 2020.
W. A. Freiwald, “Social interaction networks in the primate brain”, Current Opinion in Neurobiology, vol. 65, pp. 49 - 58, 2020.
W. A. Freiwald, “Gross means Great”, Progress in Neurobiology, vol. 195, p. 101924, 2020.
Y. Vazquez, Ianni, G., and Freiwald, W. A., “Neural mechanisms supporting facial expressions ”, in unknown, New York, NY, USA, 2019.
Y. Zhang, Marciniak, K., and Freiwald, W. A., “Analysis of Macaque Monkeys’ Social and Physical Interaction Processing with Eye tracking Data”, in The Rockefeller University 2019 Summer Science Research Program (SSRP), New York, NY, USA, 2019.
T. Phillips-Jones, Coronel, S. Otero, Sani, I., and Freiwald, W. A., “A Virtual Reality Experimental Approach for Studying How the Brain Implements Attentive Behaviors”, in Tri-Institute 2019 Gateways to the Laboratory Summer Program, New York, NY, USA, 2019.
S. Otero Coronel, Phillips-Jones, T., Sani, I., and Freiwald, W. A., “Pupillary responses track changes in arousal and attention while exploring a virtual reality environment”, in The Rockefeller University 2019 Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) Program, New York, NY, USA, 2019.
D. Obiajulu, Vazquez, Y., Ianni, G. A., Yazdani, F., and Freiwald, W. A., “Facial Expression Scoring and Assessment of Facial Movement Kinematics in Non-Human Primates”, in The Rockefeller University 2019 Summer Science Research Program (SSRP), New York, NY, USA, 2019.
W. Zarco and Freiwald, W. A., “Visual Features for Invariant Coding by Face Selective Neurons ”, in 2019 Conference on Cognitive Computational Neuroscience (CCN), Berlin, Germany, 2019.
H. Stemmann and Freiwald, W. A., “Evidence for an attentional priority map in inferotemporal cortex”, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol. 116, no. 47, pp. 23797 - 23805, 2019.
J. Sliwa, Marvel, S. R., Ianni, G. A., and Freiwald, W. A., “Comparing human and monkey neural circuits for processing social scenes”, Cognitive Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting (CNS), Boston, MA. 2018.
I. Yildirim, Freiwald, W. A., and J., T., “Efficient inverse graphics in biological face processing”, bioRxiv. 2018.
J. Sliwa, Marvel, S. R., Ianni, G. A., and Freiwald, W. A., “Comparing human and monkey neural circuits for processing social scenes”, Social & Affective Neuroscience Society (SANS). Brooklyn, NY , 2018.
J. Sliwa, Marvel, S. R., Ianni, G. A., and Freiwald, W. A., “Comparing human and monkey neural circuits for processing social scenes”, Organization for Computational Neurosciences - CNS 2018. Seattle, WA, 2018.
J. Sliwa, Marvel, S. R., Ianni, G. A., and Freiwald, W. A., “Comparing human and monkey neural circuits for processing social scenes”, Société Francophone de Primatologie (SFDP) Annual Meeting, Paris, France. 2018.
J. Sliwa, Marvel, S. R., and Freiwald, W. A., “Comparing human and monkey neural circuits for processing social scenes”, Society for Neuroscience's Annual Meeting - SfN 2017. 2017.
J. Sliwa and Freiwald, W. A., “From agents to actions to interactions: Uncovering multiple social networks in the primate brain”, Society for Social and Affective Neuroscience. 2017.
I. Yildirim and Janner, M., “Causal and compositional generative models in online perception”, in 39th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, London, UK, 2017.
J. Sliwa and Freiwald, W. A., “A Network for Social interaction understanding in the primate brain”, Organization for Human Brain Mapping - OHBM 2017. Vancouver, Canada, 2017.
J. Z. Leibo, Liao, Q., Anselmi, F., Freiwald, W. A., and Poggio, T., “View-Tolerant Face Recognition and Hebbian Learning Imply Mirror-Symmetric Neural Tuning to Head Orientation”, Current Biology, vol. 27, pp. 1-6, 2017.
S. Sadagopan, Zarco, W., and Freiwald, W. A., “A Causal Relationship Between Face-Patch Activity and Face-Detection Behavior”, eLife, 2017.
J. Sliwa and Freiwald, W. A., “A Dedicated Network for Social Interaction Processing in the Primate Brain”, Science, vol. Vol. 356, no. Issue 6339, pp. pp. 745-749, 2017.
I. Yildirim, Janner, M., Belledonne, M., Wallraven, C., Freiwald, W. A., and Tenenbaum, J. B., “Causal and compositional generative models in online perception”, 39th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society - COGSCI 2017. London, UK, 2017.
S. M. Landi and Freiwald, W. A., “Two areas for familiar face recognition in the primate brain”, Science, vol. 357, no. 6351, pp. 591 - 595, 2017.
J. Sliwa and Freiwald, W. A., “From agents to actions to interactions: Uncovering multiple social networks in the primate brain”, Society for Neuroscience. 2016.
J. Z. Leibo, Liao, Q., Freiwald, W. A., Anselmi, F., and Poggio, T., “View-tolerant face recognition and Hebbian learning imply mirror-symmetric neural tuning to head orientation”. 2016.
I. Yildirim, Kulkarni, T., Freiwald, W. A., and Tenenbaum, J. B., “Efficient and robust analysis-by-synthesis in vision: A computational framework, behavioral tests, and modeling neuronal representations”, in Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, 2015.
C. Fisher and Freiwald, W. A., “Contrasting Specializations for Facial Motion within the Macaque Face-Processing System”, Current Biology, vol. 25, no. 2, 2015.
E. Meyers, Borzello, M., Freiwald, W. A., and Tsao, D., “Intelligent Information Loss: The Coding of Facial Identity, Head Pose, and Non-Face Information in the Macaque Face Patch System”, The Journal of Neuroscience , vol. 35, no. 18, 2015.
C. M. Schwiedrzik, Zarco, W., Everling, S., and Freiwald, W. A., “Face Patch Resting State Networks Link Face Processing to Social Cognition.”, PLoS Biology, vol. 13, no. 9, p. e1002245, 2015.
C. Fisher and Freiwald, W. A., “Whole-agent selectivity within the macaque face-processing system”, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), vol. 112, no. 47, 2015.
I. Yildirim, Kulkarni, T., Freiwald, W. A., and Tenenbaum, J. B., “Explaining Monkey Face Patch System as Efficient Analysis-by-Synthesis”. 2014.