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 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. (2025). Violated predictions enhance the representational fidelity of visual features in perception. Journal of Vision, 25(4), 14. https://doi.org/10.1167/jov.25.4.14 

Conference presentations

Dang, P., Moore, M. J., Robinson, A. K., Mattingley, J. B. (November, 2024). How does prediction modulate the neural representation and visual perception of real-world objects? Oral presentation at the Australasian Cognitive Neuroscience Society Conference, Newcastle, Australia.

Dang, P.,  Mattingley, J. B. , Moore, M.J. (April, 2025). Prediction modulates the neural representation of real-world objects and facilitates their detection within streams of object images. Poster presentation at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society Conference,  Boston, USA.