Lab Members

Robbe Goris: Principal Investigator

Corey Ziemba: Post-Doc

Corey Ziemba received his PhD in 2016 from New York University. His doctoral work under advisors Tony Movshon and Eero Simoncelli focused on dissecting the role of the second visual area in the representation and discrimination of naturalistic visual patterns, particularly visual textures. He joined the lab of Robbe Goris at UT Austin in 2018. His current research includes the use of imaging methods with Ian Nauhaus to explore the transformation of visual pattern representation across the visual cortex, as well as investigating the neural representation of sensory uncertainty in perceptual decision making.

Thomas A. Langlois: Post-Doc

Thomas explores the behavioral, computational, and neural (biological) components of bayesian inference during visual decision making and memory. He also investigates how biological vision systems differ from artificial ones. He completed his Ph.D. in Thomas Griffiths’ Computational Cognitive Science Lab at UC Berkeley in August of 2018. He then joined Princeton University as a postdoctoral researcher in the Computational Cognitive Science Lab, where he used experimental methods based on iterated reproduction to quantify subjective priors in vision. He is currently a postdoctoral fellow at UT Austin in the Center for Perceptual Systems (CPS), where he is working on uncovering the neural correlates of Bayesian inference during visual decision making.

Zoe Boundy-Singer: graduate student

Zoe Boundy-Singer is a 6th year INS graduate student in the Goris Lab. She is interested in the neural computations that underlie our sensory capabilities and how this information is used to make perceptual decisions. Currently Zoe studies the primary visual cortex – in particular, how it processes uncertainty of visual features. Her approach consists of a combination of computational theory, electrophysiological recordings, and perceptual experiments.

Jiaming Xu: graduate student

Jiaming Xu is a first-year psychology graduate student in the Center for Perceptual Systems, co-advised by Robbe Goris and Mary Hayhoe. She is interested in visual prediction in naturalistic environments and the underlying neural computations. BSc in Psychology, University of Western Ontario (advisor: Jody Culham), MA in Psychology, NYU (advisor: Michael Landy)

Akash Raj: graduate student

Akash Raj is a first-year psychology graduate student in the Center for Perceptual Systems. He is interested in sensory perception and decision processes in the primate brain, and is currently working on understanding the basis of adaptively improving confidence judgements during decision making. BS and MS in Biology from the Indian Institute of Science.

Gabriela Coello-Reyes: Research Engineer/Lab Manager

Gabriela Coello-Reyes holds a bachelors degree in Neurobiology and a masters degree in Psychology from UT Austin. Lab member 2022 - present.

Alumni

Oliver Muthmann: Post-Doc

Julie Charlton: graduate student

Julie was a neuroscience (INS) graduate student from 2017 - 2022; Now: postdoc with Carlos Brody at Princton.

Yoon Bai: graduate student

Yoon was a psychology (CPS) graduate student in the lab from 2016 - 2020; Now: postdoc with Jim DiCarlo at MIT.

Quiana Jeffs: lab manager.

Quiana was a lab manager from 2020 - 2021; Now graduate student at the University of Wyoming.