Rosa Lafer-sousa
Assistant Professor at University of Wisconsin-Madison
Madison, Wisconsin, United States
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Top SchoolRosa Lafer-Sousa is an assistant professor and vision scientist with eight years of research experience probing how primate visual cortex supports perception and behavior. Trained at Wellesley and MIT under Nancy Kanwisher, she combines human fMRI, psychophysics, computational modeling, and macaque electrophysiology to study color processing and human–macaque homologies. Her postdoctoral work at NIMH leveraged optogenetics to causally link mid- and high-level visual areas to perceptual decisions, bridging single-neuron interventions with behavioral outcomes. Now based in Madison, she leads research and teaching in the Psychology Department while maintaining a strong cross-species, methods-integrative approach that emphasizes how high-level priors shape color perception. An often-overlooked strength is her hands-on expertise in stimulus design and calibration, which underpins her experimental rigor.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Brain and Cognitive Sciences at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyBachelor of Arts - BA, Neuroscience, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Neuroscience at Wellesley CollegeHigh School, High School at Keystone SchoolGithub contributions (1)
rlaferso/-TheDress
Oct 2017 - Nov 2017
Contributions:89 commits, 88 pushes, 1 branch in 27 days
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