Ana Beth Van Gulick
Vanderbilt University Department of Psychology Graduate Student
ana.van.gulick(at)vanderbilt.edu
Research Interests
Visual Perception- Mid- and high-level visual processes
- Object recognition, perception of surface characteristics
- Object memory
- Ventral vs. parietal stream processing
- Perception of discrete objects withing a complex visual scene
- Color Vision
- How do we use color to recognize objects and evaluate the visual world?
- How does the phenomenal experience of color differ from the neural experience of color?
- Why is this and what are the results of multiple ways of processing color if they exist?
- What can synesthesia tell us about this?
- Visual perception related to other parts of cognition especially executive function, emotional responses, and memory.
- Perceptual Expertise
- How object perception changes with experience
- Connection between learning and perceptual expertise
- Changes in neural correlates of object recognition with acquisition of expertise
- How does the perception of complex objects influence cognitive processes? (How we think about the object, remember the object, act on the object)
- Deficits in high level perception in developmental disorders such as Autism
- Visual perception and consciousness.
- What are we consciously aware of and what do we perceive without any conscious awareness?
- How are these types of perception different? How does the brain use them effectively
- I am interested in investigating these phenomenon both behaviorally and using functional MRI to better understand their neural correlates.
Curriculum Vitae
Projects
- Is Memory for Diagnostic Color Categorical?
- TDLC Trainee Bootcamp Project on Interacting Memory Systems
- Video of Presentation on The Science Network
Other Websites
- Object Perception Lab, PI: Dr. Isabel Gauthier
- Vanderbilt University Psychology Department
- Vanderbilt Psychology Personal Website
- Perceptual Expertise Network
- Temporal Dynamics of Learning Center
- Find me on Neurotree