Celia Foster

Alumni of the Department Human Perception, Cognition and Action
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

Education

2016 - 2020

Doctoral Student

Recognition and Categorization Group

Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, Germany

2013 - 2015

MSc in Neural and Behavioural Sciences

Graduate Training Centre of Neuroscience, Tübingen, Germany

2010 - 2013

BSc in Neuroscience

University College London, UK

Research Experience

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

2015

Master’s 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

2014

Lab Rotation

Vision & Cognition Lab

Centre for Integrative Neuroscience, Tübingen, Germany

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

2014

Lab Rotation

Social & Spatial Cognition Group

Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, Germany

2012 - 2013

Bachelor’s 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

2012

Internship

Child Vision Lab

Institute of Ophthalmology, University College London, UK

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