Toward a Science of Consciousness

Apr 9-14, 2012

PLENARY

Lore Thaler

Lore Thaler is an Associate Faculty Member, Department of Psychology, Durham University 
 


EDUCATION:
• 2002-2008 The Ohio State University. Major: Cognitive and Experimental Psychology. MA (2004) PhD (2008). PhD Thesis: A Representation Based Approach to Visually Guided Motor Behavior. Committee: James Todd (Advisor), Roger Ratcliff, Delwin Lindsey, Richard Jagacinski
• 1998-2004 University of Bonn, Germany. Major: Psychology. Diplom, 'very good' (Grade: 1,1). Thesis: The Effects of Phase on Shape Perception – A Psychophysical Study. Committee: Arndt Bröder, Cristina Massen
• 1997-1998 University of Greifswald, Germany. Major: Philosophy and History of Art
• 1989-1997 Gymnasium Wülfrath, Germany. Major: Biology and German Literature. Abitur, 'very good' (Grade: 1,2)


MEMBERSHIPS:
• Vision Science Society
• Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS)

RESEARCH INTERESTS:
The long term goal of my research is to determine how the nervous system computes and represents 3D spatial structure from sensory information, such as vision, audition and proprioception, and how it uses spatial representations to generate responses, such as perceptual reports or motor actions. In the context of this goal, I am currently pursuing the following lines of research:

• Spatial representations and motor action
• Echolocation
• Perception of shape from texture