Sabine Kastner, MD, PhD, Professor of Psychology at Princeton University, is a cognitive neuroscientist, known for her pioneering work on the neural basis of visual attention, her comparative studies in the human brain and her groundbreaking studies on the role of the thalamus in perception and cognition.
Her lecture, “Everyone Knows What Attention Is …” was held on April 8, 2024.
Dr. Kastner provided an overview of the brain network and some of the mechanisms that support attention behaviors. She concluded with recent studies suggesting that the temporal dynamics of the attention network provide a scaffold for the integration and coordination of memory and sensory processing networks. This framework provides a basis for furthering our understanding of the devastating consequences caused by attention deficit disorders.
Dr. Kastner is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences and a Member of the German National Academy of Sciences (Leopoldina). She is the recipient of the Young Investigator Award from the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, the George A. Miller Prize in Cognitive Neuroscience and the Society for Neuroscience’s Award on Education in Neuroscience.