Erin Goddard is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences at McGill University in Montreal.
From 2014 to 2016, she was Postdoctoral Research Associate at Macquarie University in Australia under the supervision of Alexandra Woolgar and Thomas Carlson. Before this experience, she has been Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Sydney in Australia, under the supervision by Colin Clifford.
In her research she addresses questions of how the brain represents visual information, especially information about colour. She addresses these questions using the neuroimaging methods of functional MRI (fMRI) and magnetoencephalography (MEG), combined with psychophysical (behavioural) measures of perceptual experience, and computational modelling of neural representations. She has a particular interest in understanding how different brain regions influence one another and interact over time to generate representations of visual information. More recently, she has also considered questions of how these complex processes are subject to top-down influences, such as attentional state and the observer’s task.
