Miss Mimi (Phuong) Dang

Email: phuong.dang@uqconnect.edu.au

Supervisors

Dr. Margaret Moore (Primary)

Prof. Jason Mattingley

Current research

I received my Bachelor with Honours in Psychological Science from the University of Queensland in 2023. During my last year of studies, I had the opportunity to work with Dr Rideaux and Professor Mattingley on a psychophysical project looking at how predictive information influences the fidelity of visual perception. We focused on the visual perception of orientations, a low-level feature. I then went on to work with Dr Robinson, Dr Moore, and Professor Mattingley as their Honours student. My Honours project investigated how predictive information influences the way higher-level visual information (i.e., object-level information) appears in the brain using EEG and machine learning techniques. We also attempted to examine how prediction influences object classification performance. Now a PhD student at QBI, I expand on this line of work to explore the role of prediction in shaping our visual representation and perception of real-world objects.

Research interests

• The predictive mind and Bayesian inference

• Neural representations

• Perception

Publications

Rideaux, R., Dang, P., Jackel-David, L., Buhmann, Z., Rangelov, D., Mattingley, J.B. (2024). Violated predictions enhance the representational fidelity of visual features in perception. [Manuscript submitted for publication]. See preprint: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.03.27.587109v1