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Dr. rer. nat. Dipl.-Psych. Dipl.-Inf. Katharina Dobs

Research interests

My research focuses on human visual recognition. I’m interested in how visual information is transformed until we recognize people, objects, their relationship to each other and the overall gist of a scene. I also investigate the functional organization of the human visual cortex and why some regions are specifically engaged in processing a single visual category and how those develop.
I combine recent advances in machine learning with human behavioral and neural data to provide a computationally precise account of how visual recognition works in humans.