# Core-Vision Processes

> **NIH NIH P30** · MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · 2022 · $518,145

## Abstract

PROJECT SUMMARY
 The MIT group of NEI Core Investigators constitute one of the strongest, most productive
NEI-funded groups in the world, employing techniques ranging from genetic manipulations, to
cellular imaging, to non-human primate neurophysiology, to human fMRI. The vision research
questions of these faculty are fundamental and wide-ranging, including visual cellular plasticity,
visual development, early visual representation, high-level object and face vision, and visual
attention and cognition, and novel tools to study or modify visual processes. This longstanding
NEI Core has played a critical role in keeping this group highly productive and innovative,
enabling collaborations, eliminating inefficient re-design or re-engineering, and facilitating the
training of the next generation of vision researchers.
 The three service Cores supported by this grant — Machine Core, Electronics Core, and
Imaging Core — are well established, well run, highly productive, and always evolving to meet the
ever evolving research needs of the NEI Core Investigators. If renewed, they will continue to
provide state-of-the-art on-hand resources and expertise that would otherwise be impossible to
achieve in individual laboratories of using outside sources. Together, these Cores will: 1) Enable
the construction of novel devices and research methods that are not available off-the-shelf, but
are critical to innovative research productivity, 2) Enable rapid repair of equipment to keep active
research moving, 3) Maintain efficiency and enable collaboration by disseminating the resources,
services and specific work products of the service Cores, and 4) Provide training of students and
postdoctoral fellows in technical skills that enable innovation. In short, the Core here at MIT
makes the knowledge productivity of our Core Investigator Labs much more than the sum of those
parts, and it has important positive spillover effects on the broader Brain and Cognitive Sciences
community here at MIT and beyond.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10428501
- **Project number:** 5P30EY002621-45
- **Recipient organization:** MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
- **Principal Investigator:** James J DiCarlo
- **Activity code:** P30 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2022
- **Award amount:** $518,145
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 1997-08-01 → 2024-06-30

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10428501

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10428501, Core-Vision Processes (5P30EY002621-45). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-23 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10428501. Licensed CC0.

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