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2025 Safadi Lecture: Representing the Visual World
Chicago, IL US
October 15, 2025
See what your patients see! Learn how face perception research is transforming clinical care!
Join us for an engaging and clinically relevant exploration of the neural systems that shape how we perceive faces, decode emotions, and navigate social interactions. Led by pioneering neuroscientist Dr. Doris Tsao, this session reveals the intricate “face patch” system of the brain, mapped through cutting-edge imaging and electrophysiological methods, and how it underpins core aspects of human cognition.
This activity translates breakthrough findings into tools for clinical diagnosis, assessment, and intervention. You'll gain practical insight into how deficits in face and social perception present in conditions like autism spectrum disorder, schizophrenia, and prosopagnosia, and how neuroscience can support earlier detection and more targeted therapeutic strategies.
Designed for busy clinicians, this flexible program allows you to attend either in person or virtually, making it easy to integrate into your schedule without missing out on cutting-edge insights.
Whether you're a psychiatrist, neurologist, pediatrician, or other healthcare professional, this session will enrich your understanding of the neural basis of perception and help you bring a new level of precision and empathy to patient care.
Register today to bridge neuroscience and clinical practice in a way that directly benefits your patients.
Target Audience
This activity is designed for physicians, neuroscientists, psychologists, and other healthcare professionals interested in neurobiology, visual cognition, and their clinical applications.
Learning Objectives
After this activity, participants will be able to:
- Recall the organization and functional role of the six-region face patch system in the primate brain;
- Describe how functional brain imaging and targeted electrophysiology are used to decode facial feature processing in visual circuits;
- Explain how disruptions in face and object recognition circuits contribute to impairments in social cognition in conditions such as autism-spectrum disorders and schizophrenia;
- Analyze how hierarchical neural coding and visual feature integration models are informed by discoveries in primate face perception research;
- Evaluate the clinical implications of mapping face and object recognition pathways for diagnosing and managing perception-related neuropsychiatric conditions, including autism-spectrum disorders and prosopagnosia.
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David Rubenstein Forum at the University of Chicago
1201 E 60th St
Chicago, IL
60637
United States
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Learners can attend this event in person or virtually. For questions about the event, contact Daniel Nava via e-mail.
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ACCESSIBILITY The University of Chicago is committed to providing equal access appropriate to need and circumstances and complies fully with legal requirements of the Americans with Disabilities Act. If you are in need of special accommodation, please contact Daniel Nava via email at [email protected].
The University of Chicago reserves the right to cancel or postpone this conference due to unforeseen circumstances. In the unlikely event this activity must be cancelled or postponed, the registration fee will be refunded; however, the University of Chicago is not responsible for any related costs, charges, or expenses to participants, including fees assessed by airline/travel/lodging agencies.
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Disclosure Declarations
As a provider accredited by the ACCME, the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine asks everyone in a position to control the content of an educational activity to disclose all financial relationships with any ineligible companies. This includes any entity whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients. Financial relationships are relevant if a financial relationship, in any amount, exists between the person in control of content and an ineligible company during the past 24 months, and the content of the education is related to the products of an ineligible company with whom the person has a financial relationship. Mechanisms are in place to identify and mitigate any relevant financial relationships before the start of the activity.
Additionally, the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine requires Authors to identify investigational products or off-label uses of products regulated by the US Food and Drug Administration at first mention and, where appropriate, in the content.
Physician Credit
The University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
The University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
The University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine designates this live activity for a maximum of 1.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Other Participant Credit
Other participants will receive a Certificate of Participation. For information on the applicability and acceptance of Certificates of Participation for educational activities certified for AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ from organizations accredited by the ACCME, please consult your professional licensing board.
Other participants will receive a Certificate of Participation. For information on the applicability and acceptance of Certificates of Participation for educational activities certified for AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ from organizations accredited by the ACCME, please consult your professional licensing board.
Please note: The credit claiming process will close three months after the activity ends. Requests to claim credit after three months may incur additional fees.
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Please note: The credit claiming process will close three months after the activity ends. Requests to claim credit after three months may incur additional fees.
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