Jacqueline M. Fulvio
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Research Scientist
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My research training began in the perceptual domain, taking a Bayesian approach to investigate how the visual system incorporates prior knowledge and experience to form complete percepts from incomplete sensory information as reported in psychophysical tasks involving visual completion (e.g., through extrapolation or interpolation). During my first post-doc, I received training in reinforcement learning and other computer science techniques and applied them to better understand and model behavior in extrapolation tasks similar to those I had studied earlier. In a second post-doc, I expanded my investigations of human visual extrapolation into the virtual reality domain where I could leverage the more “life-like” presentation of stimuli. Currently, my research is focused on cognitive neuroscience, with the goal of understanding the neural correlates of visual working memory, which has been an exciting and critical component in my thinking about my future work on visual completion.