Megan Peters
University of California Irvine
Assistant Professor/Lecturer
Visual awareness; metacognition; consciousness; machine learning; Bayesian ideal observer; computational modeling; fMRI; neuroimaging; noninvasive neurostimulation; neural correlates of consciousness; computational neuroscience
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I am an Assistant Professor in the UC Irvine Department of Cognitive Sciences. I’m also a Cooperating Researcher in the Department of Decoded Neurofeedback at Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International in Kyoto, Japan. Previously, from 2017 I was on the faculty at UC Riverside in the Department of Bioengineering. I received my Ph.D. in computational cognitive neuroscience (psychology) from UCLA.
My research aims to reveal how the brain represents and uses uncertainty, and performs adaptive computations based on noisy, incomplete information. I specifically focus on how these abilities support metacognitive evaluations of the quality of (mostly perceptual) decisions, and how these processes might relate to phenomenology and conscious awareness. I use neuroimaging, computational modeling, machine learning and neural stimulation techniques to study these topics.