About
I am currently an Assistant Professor in the Psychology Department at Carnegie Mellon University, with a courtesy appointment in the Neuroscience Institute.
See my lab website for more details.
Prior to this, I was a postdoc at CMU, working with Leila Wehbe and Michael Tarr. Before that, I earned my B.S. in Biological Sciences from Cornell University, then obtained my Ph.D. in Neurosciences from the University of California, San Diego, where I worked with John Serences.
My research focuses on human visual perception. My goal is to understand how our visual perception reflects the structure of the world we live in as well as our need for adaptive everyday behavior. How do we compute meaningful, high-level information from noisy visual inputs, taking into account our experience with the statistics of our environment? How do we adapt these representations to changes in our goals and internal state? To address these questions, I use experimental techniques such as functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and behavioral studies performed with healthy human participants. I also use computational approaches, including modeling applied to fMRI and behavioral data as well as in-silico experiments in artificial neural network models.
View my full CV here and a recent research statement here.
Contact
mmhender [at] cmu [dot] edu