Hannah L. Stone

Hannah Stone is a PhD student in Psychological & Brain Sciences at UC Santa Barbara. She studies how the brain turns artificial stimulation into conscious visual experience.

Her research combines psychophysics, neurostimulation, EEG analysis, and computational modeling to understand how cortical activity gives rise to visual percepts. Her current work uses TMS to study phosphene perception and is building toward combining stimulation with EEG to examine how brain state influences whether and what a person sees. In parallel, she develops computational models of V1 to better predict the perceptual consequences of cortical stimulation. In 2026, she received the Richard E. Mayer Award for the best second-year paper in the department.

Before joining the Bionic Vision Lab, Hannah worked at Stanford University, where she studied how task demands and individual differences shape the neural processing of written language. She previously conducted research at the University of Rochester on how attention influences eye movements and early visual processing.

Outside of the lab, Hannah enjoys painting, surfing, and exploring Santa Barbara by bike.