Talia Konkle is the recipient of the Inaugural Lila R. Gleitman Prize (2023). In the first decade of her career, Konkle has made a range of theoretically important, highly original, and rigorous contributions to cognitive science and cognitive neuroscience in our understanding of how the visual system computes representations of objects. She has used behavioral, neural, and computational modelling methods to converge on answers to the question of how the mind perceives objects and how the brain computes the representations that lead to those perceptions. Examining the mappings of neural responses across the cortex, she has gained insight into the brain’s cognitive architecture, and has developed computational theories that help explain how and why the mind is organized the way it is. Her work has been characterized as embodying the creativity of an artist, the analytic rigor of a scientist, and the technical skill of an engineer. Konkle has shown deep and active commitment to creating and openly sharing her science and research tools with the vision science community. She is also known as a gifted communicator and a devoted mentor to younger scholars.