Linda Ficco

I am a doctoral researcher in cognitive psychology and neuroscience. I am broadly interested in how the human brain represents perceptual information and how such representations are used to predict future perceptual input. My current research focusses on face perception, more specifically on how humans encode and recognize faces in the visual modality. My main question is whether differences in the cognitive representation of faces relate to individual differences in recognition skills. I use both behavioural experimental psychology methods and neuroimaging techniques (e.g. electrophysiological recordings and functional magnetic resonance imaging) to address these questions. As a side-project, I employ meta-analytic methods on neuroimaging data concerning face perception, to study how perceived variation in facial features is represented at the neural level. Additionally, I teach a seminar about the topic of meta-analyses in psychology and neuroscience at the master level.