How vision, gaze & memory combine
I am a postdoctoral researcher and Alexander von Humboldt fellow in the lab of Chris Baker at the National Institute of Mental Health in Bethesda (USA) and guest researcher at the Max-Planck-Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Leipzig (Germany).
I study the links between human vision, viewing behavior and memory,
which to me are not separate concepts. Our ongoing experience is grounded
in our behavior and vice versa, and both depend on and determine what we remember.
This inseparability poses a challenge: mental processes and behavior must
be studied together in the light of task demands, and neural activity needs to be interpreted with their connection in mind.
My work seeks to address this challenge, both on a theoretical and methodological level, by characterizing
how human brain activity, mental processes (such as visual perception and memory),
and complex behaviors (such as viewing and navigation) are grounded in each other. To do so, I combine neuroimaging and eye tracking
with naturalistic stimuli and virtual reality, and I develop open-source machine-learning approaches to
push the boundaries of how human behavior can be studied using neuroimaging.
This is a personal website and I do not represent the NIH here
