I am Ladan. I received my PhD in Neuroscience from Western University (London, ON), where I used neuroimaging to study the cerebellum and its role beyond motor control, with a particular focus on working memory and cognitive processes.

During my postdoctoral work at Brown University, my research expanded to visual and perceptual memory, especially in the context of three-dimensional perception. Using a combination of neuroimaging and psychophysics, I investigated how the brain represents and maintains 3D visual information in working memory, and explored the alignment between human perception and representations in computational neural networks.

I am currently interested in mental simulation in humans, particularly spatial transformations such as mental rotation. This work examines how coordinated cortical and cerebellar networks support these processes, and uses artificial neural networks to develop models of mental rotation inspired by neural and behavioral data.