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.
To me, these are not separate, but reflections of each other. 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 for studying the human brain: mental processes and behavior must
be studied together, and neural activity needs to be interpreted with their connection in mind.
My work seeks to address this challenge, both on a conceptual and methodological level, by characterizing
the three-way interaction between human brain activity, visual perception and memory,
and complex behaviors such as viewing and navigation. 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
