Celia Foster
Alumni of the Group Recognition and Categorization
Alumni of the Group Social and Spatial Cognition
Main Focus
I am a doctoral student in the Recognition and Categorization group.
My doctoral research investigates high-level visual representations in the brain. I use fMRI to record human brain activity whilst participants view images of faces, bodies and objects and perform behavioural tasks. This allows me to explore how information about people and objects is represented in the human brain and which areas of the brain are involved in tasks like identification and categorization.
Supervisors: Dr. Isabelle Bülthoff, Dr. Mintao Zhao, Prof. Andreas Bartels
Collaborators: Dr. Timo Bolkart, Dr. Javier Romero, Prof. Michael Black, Dr. Betty Mohler
Curriculum Vitae
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Education |
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2016 - 2020 |
Doctoral Student Recognition and Categorization Group Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, Germany |
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2013 - 2015 |
MSc in Neural and Behavioural Sciences Graduate Training Centre of Neuroscience, Tübingen, Germany |
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2010 - 2013 |
BSc in Neuroscience University College London, UK |
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Research Experience |
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2016 - 2020 |
Doctoral Student Recognition and Categorization Group Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, Germany Supervisors: Dr. Isabelle Bülthoff, Dr. Mintao Zhao, Prof. Andreas Bartels |
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2015 |
Masters Thesis Vision & Cognition Lab Centre for Integrative Neuroscience, Tübingen, Germany Supervisor: Prof. Andreas Bartels Thesis title: Perception of global flow and local motion under natural conditions |
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2014 |
Lab Rotation Vision & Cognition Lab Centre for Integrative Neuroscience, Tübingen, Germany |
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2014 |
Research Assistant Social & Spatial Cognition Group Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, Germany Supervisor: PD Dr. Tobias Meilinger Project Title: The effect of object orientation on distance judgements |
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2014 |
Lab Rotation Social & Spatial Cognition Group Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, Germany |
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2012 - 2013 |
Bachelors Thesis Child Vision Lab Institute of Ophthalmology, University College London, UK Supervisor: Dr Karin Petrini Thesis title: The development of visual influence on path reproduction in darkness |
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2012 |
Internship Child Vision Lab Institute of Ophthalmology, University College London, UK |