J Brendan Ritchie.

J. Brendan Ritchie

Assistant professor of neuroscience
University of Lethbridge

J. Brendan Ritchie is assistant professor of neuroscience at the University of Lethbridge. His lab studies the neural basis of vision and cognition using human neuroimaging (functional MRI and EEG), behavior and computational modeling.

Previously, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the U.S. National Institute of Mental Health and at KU Leuven, and a research associate at Macquarie University. Ritchie earned his Ph.D. in philosophy at the University of Maryland and has published work on philosophical questions related to neuroscience.

 

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