Alexander V. Maier, Ph.D.
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
Department of Psychology
College of Arts and Science
Vanderbilt University
11 21st Avenue South
008 Wilson Hall
Nashville, TN 37240
615-322-7466
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Research Agenda
The brain is the only known place in the universe where objectively observable physical and chemical processes translate into subjective experiences such as pain, taste, joy and love.
As a first step towards a mechanistic understanding of this intriguing phenomenon, my colleagues and I are determining the neural processes that give rise to our conscious perceptual experience of visual stimuli.