Embedding simulated prosthetic vision models in immersive virtual reality allows sighted subjects to act as virtual patients by “seeing” through the eyes of the patient.
Tori LeVier
(she/her/hers)
Student Assistant
Psychological & Brain Sciences
University of California, Santa Barbara
Tori LeVier is a fourth-year undergraduate pursuing a B.S. in Psychological & Brain Sciences at UC Santa Barbara and lab manager in the Bionic Vision Lab.
Tori is interested at the intersection of social cognitive neuroscience, perception, and assistive technology.
Outside of managing the lab, she is an RA with the LEAP Neuro lab (Lapate), where she is investigating the temporal coding of dynamic emotional experiences using behavioral and electrophysiological methods. She also is conducting her honors thesis with Dr. Hongbo Yu where she is investigating the moral standing of blame at a group level. After graduation, she hopes to pursue a PhD in computational or social cognitive neuroscience.
In her free time, Tori enjoys baking and decorating cakes as well as hosting car meets as the president of UCSB’s Gaucho Automotive Society.
Education
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BS in Psychological & Brain Sciences, 2024 (expected)
University of California, Santa Barbara
Project Affiliate
Understanding the Information Needs of People Who Are Blind or Visually Impaired
A nuanced understanding of the strategies that people who are blind or visually impaired employ to perform different instrumental activities of daily living (iADLs) is essential to the success of future visual accessibility aids.
