Ed Connor, Ph.D.

Dr. Ed Connor is a professor of neuroscience at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He has served as director of the Zanvyl Krieger Mind/Brain Institute since 2007. His research analyzes how the brain transforms visual images into knowledge about the world.

Dr. Connor earned his Ph.D. in neuroscience from Johns Hopkins in 1989. After postdoctoral studies at the California Institute of Technology and Washington University, he joined the Johns Hopkins Neuroscience Department in 1996.

The Connor lab has shown how populations of neurons in higher-level visual regions of the brain encode information about the world of objects and environments, including three-dimensional object structure, object value, and the large-scale spatial structure of environments.