I first obtained a degree in Biochemistry at Free University Berlin (Germany) and subsequently did a MSc in Cognitive Neuroscience at Imperial College London. In my PhD at the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience at University College London, I studied the attentional requirements of visual enumeration using psychophysics, fMRI and TMS. I showed that the fast apprehension of small numerosities (a process termed "subitizing") requires visual attention and does not occur "pre-attentively" as previously thought.
Now I am working on how the brain predicts visual information, mainly at the example of so-called "apparent motion", using both TMS and fMRI. |
