Haxby received a BA from Carleton College in 1973 and completed a Fulbright Scholarship at the University of Bonn in 1974.
[1] After receiving his PhD, Haxby held several clinical psychology positions at the Minneapolis VA Medical Center.
He has published numerous papers using functional neuroimaging to investigate the cortical organization underlying visual perception and semantic memory.
[6] Haxby has played a critical role in introducing machine learning methods to functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data analysis.
[7][8][9] This approach was popularized by a paper demonstrating that neural representations of faces and object categories are encoded in a distributed fashion in human ventral temporal cortex,[10] a position that is typically contrasted with more modular accounts of the functional neuroanatomy of face processing.