Dr Farzaneh Darki

I am an EPSRC Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Exeter, investigating how touch can enhance auditory perception. My work explores the neural dynamics that shape sensory experience and how these processes can be described mathematically. By integrating nonlinear dynamical systems theory with biophysically inspired models of the brain, I link theoretical predictions to psychophysical experiments in hearing and touch.

Publications

Alawfi A, Darki F, Siber J. Predicting perceptual boundaries in auditory streaming using delay differential equations. Chaos. 2025 Oct; 35, 103135.

Darki F, Rankin J, Słowiński P. Tactile stimulations reduce or promote the segregation of auditory streams: psychophysics and modelling. PLOS Computational Biology. 2025 Aug 18; 21(8):e1012701.

Darki F, Słowiński P, Goodfellow M, Rankin J. Touch stimulation to enhance separation of sound sources. In: 33rd Annual Computational Neuroscience Meeting: CNS*2024. Journal of Computational Neuroscience. 2025 Feb; 53 (Suppl 1): 3–89. 

Darki F, Ferrario A, Rankin J. Hierarchical processing underpins competition in tactile perceptual bistability. Journal of Computational Neuroscience. 2023 Aug; 51(3):343–360.

Darki F, Rankin J. Perceptual rivalry with vibrotactile stimuli. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics. 2021 Aug; 83(6):2613–2624.

Darki F, Rankin J. Methods to assess binocular rivalry with periodic stimuli. The Journal of Mathematical Neuroscience. 2020 Jun 15; 10(1):10.

Darki F. Neural dynamics of perceptual competition. University of Exeter; 2021.

Software and experimental data

The datasets generated and analysed in Perceptual rivalry with vibrotactile stimuli are available in the GitHub repository farzaneh-darki/Darki2021_perceptual.

Source code for the model in Methods to assess binocular rivalry with periodic stimuli is available at the GitHub repository farzaneh-darki/Darki2020_methods.