About Me

I study colour perception in the brain. I am currently working on a project involving the Natural Scenes Dataset.

Publications

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Pennock, I. M. L., Racey, C., Kay, K., Franklin, A., & Bosten, J. M. (2026). The colors of images preferred by individual voxels can be used to delineate functionally distinct visually responsive brain areas. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 123(15), e2535986123.

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Pennock, I. M. L., Racey, C., Allen, E. J., Wu, Y., Naselaris, T., Kay, K., Franklin, A., & Bosten, J. (2023) Color-biased regions in the ventral visual pathway are food-selective. Current Biology; doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2022.11.063.

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Pennock, I. M. L., Schmidt, T. T., Zorbek, D., & Blankenburg, F. (2021). Representation of visual numerosity information during working memory in humans: An fMRI decoding study. Human Brain Mapping, 42(9), 2778-2789.

Abstract Publication

Pennock, I., Racey, C., Kay, K., Naselaris, T., Allen, E., Wu, Y., Franklin, A., & Bosten, J. (2021). Color-selective brain responses and hue representations from ultra-high-field fMRI of natural scenes. Journal of Vision, 21(9), 2009-2009.

Education

UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX, Brighton, UK
PhD Student at the Sussex Colour Group and Sussex Vision Lab

UNIVERSITY OF OSNABRUECK, Osnabrueck, DE
Double Master’s Degree: Majoring in Artificial Intelligence & Neuroinformatics

UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO, Rovereto, IT
Double Master’s Degree: Majoring in Cognitive Neuroscience

UNIVERSITY COLLEGE ROOSEVELT, Middelburg, NL
Bachelor in Liberal Arts & Sciences
• Triple interdepartmental major in Cognitive Science, Psychology & Philosophy
• Minor in Statistics