I’m Amy. I’m a cognitive neuroscientist and postdoctoral researcher at the RIKEN Center for Brain Science in Japan.

My research investigates how brain states shape perception, cognition and conscious experience. I am interested in sleep, dreaming and atypical perceptual experiences as models for understanding the relationship between brain function and lived experience.

I completed my PhD at the University of Melbourne, where I studied Visual Snow Syndrome and individual differences in perceptual experience. At RIKEN, I use polysomnography, EEG and quantitative approaches to investigate how rapid eye-movement sleep influences higher cognitive functions.

Across my work, I aim to integrate objective measures of brain function with rigorous approaches to understanding individual differences in perception and experience.