Maryam Vaziri-Pashkam
National Institute of Mental Health
Postdoc
Visual Processing of Object Shapes and Body Movements for Action
Object responses in human ventral and dorsal visual processing pathways
Effect of task on object responses in the human dorsal and ventral visual streams
Subtle body movements reveal action goals during social interactions
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I am a cognitive neuroscientist, interested in the intersection of visual cognition and action. I have an M.D. from Tehran Medical University and a Ph.D. in cognitive psychology from Harvard University. I am currently a research fellow with Dr. Leslie Ungerleider at the Laboratory of Brain and Cognition. The main theme of my research is to understand “vision for action”. Using behavioral experiments in naturalistic settings, body movement tracking, and neuroimaging, I explore the processing of visual information during natural interactions in two domains: 1) the processing of object shapes for action; and 2) the processing of others’ body movements during social interactions. My research, connecting the study of body movements and explorations of visual cognition, aims to delineate the neural underpinnings and the underlying computations of vision for action, to provide a deeper understanding of visual processing that applies to more naturalistic everyday settings.