# Jack Gallant
**Entity class:** Person
**Domain:** Neuroscience / Neuroimaging
**Maturity:** Developed
## Definition
Jack Gallant is a neuroscientist at the University of California, Berkeley known for research on computational models of sensory and semantic representation in the human brain.
## Mechanism and significance
His laboratory provides an important precedent for reconstructing aspects of visual experience from measured neural activity.
## Relationships
- **Research dossier:** [[research/ASI and RSI Timeline Research Moonshots|ASI and RSI Timeline Research Moonshots]]
- **Ontology route:** [[ASI and RSI Timeline Ontology#Neural Decoding and Cognitive Systems|Neural Decoding and Cognitive Systems]]
- **Primary fields:** [[Neural Decoding]] · [[Brain-Computer Interfaces]] · [[Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging]]
- **Adjacent concepts:** [[Person-Specific Neural Decoder]] · [[Gallant Lab]] · [[Jean-Rémi King]] · [[Meta Neural Decoding Research]]
- **Institutional context:** [[UC Berkeley]]
## Sources and provenance
- [[research/ASI and RSI Timeline Research Moonshots|ASI and RSI Timeline Research Moonshots]] — immediate source for this node's role in the broadcast research map.
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