Dr. Petra Vetter
New York University
Visit(s): 
September, October 2012
February 2013
February 2016
Petra Vetter is currently a post-doctoral research fellow at the Institute of Neuroscience and Psychology at University of Glasgow (Scotland). Before that, she received a PhD at the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience at University College London. She is interested in how the visual system integrates contextual information and how this information influences our visual perception. In particular, she focuses on the processes in early visual cortex and how they are affected by multisensory, emotional and higher cognitive factors. In her experimental work, she employs fMRI (including retinotopic mapping and brain reading approaches), TMS and psychophysics in humans. She has an active interest in Philosophy of Mind and has been organising an interdisciplinary seminar series with the Philosophy department at the University of Glasgow.