Katharina Dobs
Justus-Liebig University Giessen
Research Faculty or equivalent
A computational approach to understanding face perception in the human visual system.
A computational explanation for domain specificity in the human visual system.
How face perception unfolds over time.
Near-optimal integration of facial form and motion.
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I am a cognitive neuroscientist with an interdisciplinary background in computer science and psychology. My research is at the forefront of the newly emerging field of cognitive computational neuroscience uniting cognitive science, artificial intelligence and neuroscience. Specifically, my research leverages the recent successes in computational models of vision to address long-standing questions concerning the functional organization of the human visual cortex.
I am currently research group leader of the Cognitive Computational Neuroscience Lab at Justus-Liebig University Giessen. I am also a research affiliate at the Center for Brains, Minds and Machines at MIT. Previously, I was a postdoc at MIT where I worked with Nancy Kanwisher. During my first postdoc at CNRS-CerCo I worked with Leila Reddy and Weiji Ma. I completed my PhD at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics under the supervision of Isabelle Bülthoff and Johannes Schultz.