Jefferson Ortega
My name is Jefferson Ortega and I am a PhD student in Cognitive Neuroscience in the Whitney Lab for Perception and Action at the University of California, Berkeley. I am a Eugene Cota-Robles Fellow and an NIH DSPAN F99/K00 Fellow. Before joining UC Berkeley, I received my Bachelor's Degree in Psychology at the City College of New York, CUNY. My research involves investigating perception, specifically in areas involving social perception, social cognition, and sequential effects in vision.
Recent News
[August 2024] Awarded the NIH DSPAN F99/K00 fellowship to investigate the behavioral and neural mechanisms of human social visual attention!
[February 2024] Four conference posters accepted for the 2024 Vision Science Society conference!
[January 2024] Received the BRAIN Foundation award to improve context-based emotion processing in Autism!
[October 2023] Conference paper accepted for the 2024 Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV)!
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