Nadine Dijkstra

How generative brains distinguish imagination from reality

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Biography

Nadine is a principal research fellow at the Department of Imaging Neuroscience (the FIL), University College London, where she leads the Imagine Reality Lab. She studied psychology and cognitive neuroscience before completing a PhD in artificial intelligence at the Donders Institute in the Netherlands. Her research aims to understand the relationship between mental imagery and perception in the human brain by using a combination of psychophysics, neuroimaging, machine learning and computational modeling.