Felix Schneider- PhD
- PostDoc Position at German Primate Center
Felix Schneider
- PhD
- PostDoc Position at German Primate Center
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Introduction
I'm a postdoc in the lab of Prof. Stefan Treue and study perceptual decision-making in social and non-social settings. Specifically, my work addresses where/how the brain incorporates information that becomes available by observing and interpreting the choices and actions of others. My research involves psychophysics and electrophysiology.
Current institution
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July 2020 - present
Position
- PostDoc Position
Description
- Postdoc in the lab of Prof. Stefan Treue. Working on a dyadic experimental settings to investigate how social information gets integrated into the sensory processing hierarchy.
January 2017 - June 2020
Position
- PhD Student
Description
- PhD student in the lab of Prof. Tim Griffiths. Studied auditory cognition and the mechanisms the brain uses to make sense of the acoustic world. Specifically, my work addressed how the brain segregates auditory objects from complex acoustic scenes. My research involved behavioural tests, fMRI and electrophysiology.
Education
October 2014 - October 2016
October 2009 - September 2014
Publications
Publications (13)
Figure-ground segregation, the brain’s ability to group related features into stable perceptual entities, is crucial for auditory perception in noisy environments. The neuronal mechanisms for this process are poorly understood in the auditory system. Here, we report figure-ground modulation of multi-unit activity (MUA) in the primary and non-primar...
We developed a continuous perceptual report (CPR) task that provides, by way of peri-decision wagering, an assessment of multiple dimensions of real-time perceptual decision-making. Using the CPR task, we have measured human behavior in social and non-social settings. We show that performance and perceptual confidence are not only determined by tas...
In this study, we demonstrate that macaques are, similar to humans, able to extract auditory objects from complex acoustic scenes. Moreover, we present evidence that perceptual organisation takes place in rostral parts of the auditory belt and parabelt.
Studies of social cognition examine how organisms process and act on the presence, intentions, actions, and behavioural outcomes of others in social contexts. Many real-life social interactions unfold during direct face-to-face contact and rely on immediate, time-continuous feedback about mutual behaviour and changes in the shared environment. Yet,...
Human perception is susceptible to social influences. To determine if and how individuals opportunistically integrate real-time social information about noisy stimuli into their judgment, we tracked perceptual accuracy and confidence in social (dyadic) and non-social (solo) settings using a novel continuous perceptual report (CPR) task with peri-de...
Human perception is susceptible to social influences. To determine if and how individuals opportunistically integrate real-time social information about noisy stimuli into their judgment, we tracked perceptual accuracy and confidence in social (dyadic) and non-social (solo) settings using a novel continuous perceptual report (CPR) task with peri-de...
We have developed a novel continuous perceptual report task that allows assessment of perception and perceptual confidence in real-time.
Information from Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is useful for diagnosis and treatment management of human neurological patients. MRI monitoring might also prove useful for non-human animals involved in neuroscience research provided that MRI is available and feasible and that there are no MRI contra-indications precluding scanning. However, MRI m...
Natural sensory scenes are often very complex, with a multitude of overlapping objects in space and time. In order to direct behaviour, a critical aspect of everyday perception is the segregation and grouping of relevant features from those scenes, known as figure-ground segregation. The neurobiological basis of auditory figure-ground processing is...
In this study, we show direct electrophysiological evidence of figure-ground segregation in primary and non-primary auditory cortex, with a systematic effect of figure saliency in the anterior, non-primary areas.
Segregating the key features of the natural world within crowded visual or sound scenes is a critical aspect of everyday perception. The neurobiological bases for auditory figure-ground segregation are poorly understood. We demonstrate that macaques perceive an acoustic figure-ground stimulus with comparable performance to humans using a neural sys...
