Benjamin Peters

I study how humans and machines see structure in terms of objects and their relations in the face of a complex and dynamic world. My research is at the intersection of Cognitive Science, Neuroscience, and Artificial Intelligence. I develop novel task sets that bridge the gap between the highly abstracted toy tasks of cognitive science and the complexity of real-world vision. I build brain-computational neural network models, serving as task-performing mechanistic models that explain human behaviour, eye-movements and neural data.

I am a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) of Computational Cognitive Science at the School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh. Previously, I was a Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at Columbia University's Zuckerman Institute in New York (PI: Nikolaus Kriegeskorte) and the School of Psychology & Neuroscience at the University of Glasgow (PI: Lars Muckli). I obtained my PhD in cognitive neuroscience on "Attentional Control of States in Visuospatial Working Memory" at the Goethe University in Frankfurt (PI: Christoph Bledowski).

Position

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Publications

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Contact

first.last [at] ed.ac.uk