FAES Educational Webinar Series: The Brain Mechanisms of Afterimages
Wednesday, May 27, 2026, 12PM – 12:30PM ET
Speaker: Sharif Kronemer, Ph.D., NIH/NIMH (BIOL 425)
Afterimages are common visual illusions that have attracted interest for hundreds of years. The precise physiological mechanisms of afterimages are unknown. Sharif will share details of a recent study highlighting for the first time the whole brain and cortical layer signals linked with afterimage perception. This work is broadly significant for addressing the neural mechanisms of conscious experience.
Sharif I. Kronemer, PhD is a Postdoctoral Fellow at NIMH studying the neural basis of visual consciousness. Trained at Ohio Wesleyan, University College London, and Yale, his work uses fMRI, EEG, MEG, and machine learning to investigate perception, illusions, and conscious states, with applications to both healthy individuals and clinical populations.
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