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Tessa Dekker

@tessamdekker.bsky.social

Visual neuroscientist at UCL Experimental Psychology and Institute of Ophthalmology, head of childvisionlab.co.uk.

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Research Assistant at UCL Recruiting now: Research Assistant on jobs.ac.uk. Click for details and explore more academic job opportunities on the top job board

We’re hiring! We’re looking for two RAs to study neuroplasticity in sight loss, sight rescue and development in children and adults @ucl.ac.uk using a wide range of neuroimaging and behavioral methods. Please help spread the word! Apply by 16 Oct! t.ly/q3aYe #neurojobs #NeuroSkyence

27.09.2025 10:57 β€” πŸ‘ 59    πŸ” 42    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 2
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Research Assistant at UCL An academic position as a Research Assistant is being advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Click now to find more details and explore additional academic job opportunities.

We’re hiring! We’re looking for two RAs to work with @tessamdekker.bsky.social and @ronimaimon.bsky.social on visual neuroscience experiments with children and adults, both with and without eye disease using cutting-edge neuroimaging and behavioral methods. Apply by 16 Oct! t.ly/q3aYe #neurojobs

09.09.2025 12:22 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 4
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Reduced susceptibility to experimentally-induced complex visual hallucinations with age Visual hallucinations occur across many clinical conditions, but can also be induced experimentally in healthy individuals, using high-frequency flick…

Very happy that our study looking at complex hallucination proneness across the lifspan is new out in Cortex! @georgiamneuro.bsky.social @mlisi.bsky.social @jagreenwood.bsky.social @thelablab.bsky.social @tessamdekker.bsky.social

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20.08.2025 19:31 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 2

New paper just out (open access) πŸ“£

How do early adversity and war trauma shape children’s decisions under uncertainty?

We tested Syrian refugee kids (7–12) in Amman vs. Jordanian peers across a set of learning/foraging tasks.

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

#PsychSciSky #neuroskyence

12.08.2025 11:59 β€” πŸ‘ 18    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Very proud to be part of this important and exciting work, also featured in the Guardian: www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

21.02.2025 11:54 β€” πŸ‘ 27    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Research Fellow at UCL Apply now for the Research Fellow role on jobs.ac.uk - the leading job board for higher education jobs. View details.

We’re hiring! We are looking for a postdoc in my lab, childvisionlab.co.uk to study how early vision loss & sight-rescuing treatments shape brain development. Join our Wellcome-funded project using advanced neuroimaging and behavioral methods! Deadline March 1st, start date flexible. t.ly/2Yoel

23.01.2025 14:56 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 11    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

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