April 2024
Hilal was awarded the FoVea Travel and Networking Award to cover the costs for attending VSS! Congratulations, Hilal. We're so proud to have you in the lab!
March 2024
Katha just received the Heinz Maier-Leibniz Prize from the DFG! One of the most important awards for researchers in early stages of their career. It also comes with 200k Euros to do more exciting science, yay! What a month!
Katha was invited to present her work about "Visual Cognition in Humans and Machines" in the Computer Science department at the Goethe University Frankfurt.
Sule is attending the prestigious Machine Learning Summer School in Okinawa. Congratulations and have fun in Japan, Sule!
Sophia just won a Master scholarship from The Adaptive Mind (TAM) project for her thesis "Exploring the Impact of Scene Information on Rapid Face Detection: A Neurocomputational Approach". Congratulations, Sophia!
February 2024
Hilal's abstract "Idiosyncratic facial motions: Uncovering identity information in facial movements through a landmark-based analysis" was accepted as poster presentation at VSS 2024. Well done!
Katha gave a talk on "A computational approach to understanding the functional architecture of the human visual mind and brain" at the Center for Cognitive Science at Technical University Darmstadt.
January 2024
Katha was invited to give a talk on "Visual Cognition in Humans and Machines" in the Computer Science department at Ulm University.
December 2023
Katha gave an invited talk on "How do real-world task demands shape the functional architecture of the visual system?" at The New VISTAs in Vision Research Conference at York University in Toronto, Canada.
Hilal submitted an abstract on landmark-based analyses of face motion to VSS 2024! Fingers crossed!
October 2023
Katha gave an invited lecture on "Using deep neural networks to understand why face perception works the way it does" in the "Sensory Sciences Lecture Series" at Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg.
Katha gave a keynote talk, and our lab presented four posters at the CMBB day in Giessen. Go VCCN lab!
September 2023
The lab has just been awarded an ERC Starting Grant for our proposal DEEPFUNC "Using deep neural networks to understand functional specialization in the human visual cortex". We're overly excited and looking forward to 5 years of fun research!
Lenny has joined the lab as a new PhD student and will be co-supervised by Martin Hebart. Welcome aboard, Lenny! Additionally, Lenny has just secured a fellowship from the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes. Congratulations!
August 2023
Our lab has just submitted 4 abstracts to the CMBB day. Congratulations to Elaheh, Hilal, Pranjul and Sule! And Katha will give a keynote. We're all looking forward to a fun day full of science and discussions about mind, brain and behavior.