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B.S. from Université du Québec a Montréal in 1993
M.S. from Yale University in 1995
Ph.D. from Yale University in 1998
Postdoctoral Fellowship at Yale and MIT in 1999
I study how we recognize objects visually and how our experience with objects transforms our visual system. I primarily use functional neuroimaging and psychophysics to study the neural basis of visual expertise. I have been advocating the value of experiments attempting to replicate category-specific effects regardless of the superficial properties of objects. In many cases, it appears that geometric properties of object categories are merely correlated with certain recognition habits (e.g., we tend to recognize faces at the individual level, we try to ignore the font or letters, we associate buildings with places). My research program explores the viability of understanding the organization of the ventral temporal cortex in terms of a flexible map of "processes" rather than a map of "categories".
Contact:
Department of Psychology
Vanderbilt University
502 Wilson Hall (or 111 21st Ave. South)
Nashville TN 37203office: 615.322.1778
fax: 615.343.4706
email: isabel.gauthier[at]vanderbilt.eduLab members in PEN:
Kim Curby, Alan Wong, Thomas James, Karin Harman James
(see lab page for individual info)
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