David Richter

I am a cognitive neuroscientist interested in how we perceive the world around us. In particular, I study how predictions shape sensory processing, how we learn from statistical regularities, and how consciousness arises in the brain. 

A central aim of my current work is to understand what kind of predictions and surprise the visual brain computes, from low- to high-level features. I am also interested in the cortical and subcortical networks that underpin these computations, with a current project on the role of higher-order thalamic nuclei.

Before (re)joining the Predictive Brain Lab, I held a Marie Skłodowska-Curie postdoctoral fellowship in the lab of María Ruz at CIMCYC in the beautiful city of Granada. Previously, I was a postdoc with Jan Theeuwes at the VU Amsterdam, and before that I completed my PhD (see my thesis) and a first postdoc here in the lab with Floris, where I also contributed to a multi-centre adversarial collaboration aimed at Accelerating Research on Consciousness