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Sabine Kastner studies the neural basis of visual perception, attention, and awareness using a translational approach that combines neuroimaging in humans and monkeys with intracranial electrophysiology studies in patients with brain lesions. She earned her M.D. degree from Heinrich-Heine University Düsseldorf and received her Ph.D. degree in neurophysiology from Georg-August University, Göttingen. After her postdoctoral work at the Max-Planck-Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen, she held a lectureship in psychiatry and later joined Leslie Ungerleider's and Robert Desimone's lab at the NIMH in Bethesda from 1996 to 2000 before taking a faculty position at Princeton, where she currently holds the rank of full professor. Kastner has served as the Scientific Director of Princeton’s neuroimaging facility since 2005 and has published more than 150 articles in journals and books. Her work includes editing the Handbook of Attention published by Oxford University Press in 2014. She is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, and a member of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, and has received various awards including the George Miller Award in Cognitive Neuroscience in 2023 and the Young Investigator Award from the Cognitive Neuroscience Society in 2005. Kastner is also involved in public outreach and educational neuroscience initiatives.
Princeton University • Princeton, NJ
Sabine Kastner is a full professor at Princeton University, where she leads research on the neural mechanisms underlying cognition, particularly visual attention.
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