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Rubi Hammer,
Postdoc in the developmental cognitive neuroscience lab, department of communication and disorder, Northwestern University, IL (rubi.hammer at northwestern dot edu). The human brain has a remarkable capability to adapt to the complex and ever-changing environment in which we act. Particularly, the human visual system, assisted by other brain systems, is capable of managing effectively an immense amount of sensory information, rendering it rapidly into a coherent, reliable and meaningful representation of objects and events. Driven by my will to understand this capability of the human brain, I study neural plasticity, behavioral changes associated with learning processes in the human visual system, and the lifespan development of learning and induction skills. This includes studying visual category learning of complex objects, perceptional learning, attentional learning, and the interplay between low-level perceptual process, higher level visual cognition, and learning and decision making processes at different developmental stages. This also involves investigating and formalizing the objective computational constraints of these mental processes. My interest in neural imaging includes studying both the neural processes that mediate learning and the long lasting changes in neural representation that follows learning. |
