Victoria Sinfield joins the Blanke Lab as a Fulbright Grantee
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Victoria will explore how technologically driven visuo-vestibular manipulations, integrated with traditional meditation practices, can alter the experience of the bodily self.
Victoria earned a bachelor of science in Biomedical Engineering (2023), a bachelor of arts in Linguistics (2023), and a master’s degree in Biomedical Engineering (2025), all from Purdue University (United States). In her MS research, she applied optimized functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) to study how age and cognitively demanding listening conditions influence neural activity and behavior, with implications for understanding speech perception in older adults.
Victoria joins the LNCO as a Fulbright Grantee and Swiss Government Excellence Scholarship Holder from the United States. At LNCO, Victoria will draw on her technical background in engineering, neuroimaging, and behavioral research to contribute to ongoing work investigating how visuo-vestibular manipulations, delivered via immersive virtual reality and vestibular motion platforms, influence self-perception. This work integrates traditional meditation practices with multisensory paradigms and combines EEG alongside behavioral measures, aiming to provide a multimodal perspective on the interaction between meditation, sensory stimulation, and bodily self-consciousness.
Welcome to the lab Victoria !
Fulbright Research Award