Jacqueline Fulvio

Download a copy of my CV here.

2022-present, Editorial Administrator, Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

2017-present, Research Scientist, University of Wisconsin-Madison

2014-2020, Research Specialist, University of Wisconsin-Madison

2012-2014, Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Wisconsin-Madison

2009-2012, Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities

2009, PhD, New York University

2006, MA, New York University

2004, BA, Rutgers College, Rutgers University-New Brunswick

My research training began in the perceptual domain under the advising of Dr. Laurence T. Maloney at NYU, taking a Bayesian approach to investigate how the visual system incorporates prior knowledge and experience to form complete percepts from incomplete sensory information as reported in psychophysical tasks involving visual completion (e.g., through extrapolation or interpolation). During my first post-doc under the supervision of Dr. Paul Schrater at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, I received training in reinforcement learning and other computer science techniques and applied them to better understand and model behavior in extrapolation tasks similar to those I had studied earlier. In that work, I developed  a computational framework for predicting which of two basic decision-making strategies will be utilized by human subjects – 1) simple stimulus-response mappings or 2) predictive models and the factors that influence the learning of those strategies. In a second post-doc under the supervision of Dr. Bas Rokers at the UW – Madison, I expanded my investigations of human visual extrapolation into the virtual reality domain where I could leverage the more “life-like” presentation of stimuli. Through that work, I have further uncovered the role (and in some cases, the consequences) of prior knowledge and experience in human visual perception. Currently, my research with Dr. Brad Postle is focused on cognitive neuroscience, with the goal of understanding the neural correlates of visual working memory. The skills and training that I am developing through this current work have been an exciting and critical component in my thinking about, and future plans for, further study of visual completion tasks, which inherently rely on working memory.

Please check out the Gender Citation Balance Index web tool that I developed in October, 2020 based on our recent work (Fulvio, Akinnola, & Postle (2021)), which provides authors with the authorship gender category breakdown of their manuscript reference lists: https://postlab.psych.wisc.edu/gcbialyzer/
The corresponding conference talk can be viewed here: https://youtu.be/pwB_3qRlYac

Please read the one-year update on the initially-promising results of launching the tool! https://postlab.psych.wisc.edu/files/9316/3563/1172/JOCN-2021-0273_Proof_hi.pdf

Or, follow the link to watch a video of a talk I gave to the RIOT Science club (UK) that includes the one-year update! https://youtu.be/0ZoJdmPxm_E

We’ve been using the UW-Madison high-throughput computing resources to carry out computationally-demanding analyses of our EEG data! To learn more, follow the link to read a summary of a recent talk I gave in June 2022 about our experiences to date and to watch a video of the talk on YouTube! https://htcondor.com/featured-users/2022-07-06-Fulvio.html