We tend to trust our eyes, believing them to be reliable transmitters of information about our visual environment. In truth, however, the signals they produce from moment to moment are noisy and incomplete. How do we 'decide' what we see based on such limited and uncertain information? What brain mechanisms underlie this ability? What neural computations allow us to improve the reliability of sensory information and make better visual decisions? Janneke Jehee’s research uses a combination of brain imaging, computational modelling and behavioural experiments to address these and other questions regarding the neural basis of human vision and visual decision-making.
About Janneke Jehee
Janneke Jehee started her academic career at the University of Amsterdam, where she received her Master’s degree in Psychology in 2000. Jehee continued at the University of Amsterdam to carry out her PhD research, which she completed in 2006.
She then worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the Vanderbilt University & Center for Visual Science, University of Rochester, in the United States. After 5 years, Jehee returned to the Netherlands to join the Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition, and Behavior at the Radboud University. Here, she worked as Principal Investigator, directing a lab on Visual Computation & Neuroimaging. More information about this lab can be found on their website.
During Jehee’s academic career, her work has been supported by numerous grants and fellowships, including the MSCA Doctoral Networks Grant, Horizon Europe (2023). Jehee also received several awards, including the Vision Sciences Society (VSS) Young Investigator Award (2017) and the Vanderbilt University Early Career Award (2018).