Isabel Gauthier

Who is Isabel Gauthier?

Isabel Gauthier is a cognitive neuroscientist currently holding the position of David K. Wilson Professor of Psychology and head of the Object Perception Lab at Vanderbilt University’s Department of Psychology, where she is also the co-director of the Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience graduate program.

She was born in Montreal, Québec, Canada, in 1971. She acquired her PhD at Yale University under Michael Tarr. In 2000, with the support of the James S. McDonnell Foundation, she founded the Perceptual Expertise Network, which now comprises over ten labs based across North America; in 2006 PEN became part of the NSF-funded Temporal Dynamics of Learning Center.