She then earned a Masters of Science in experimental psychology and cognitive neuroscience from the Institut National Polytechnique in Grenoble and then a doctorate from the same university in 1995.
[3] Oliva's group investigates how psychological perception of an image can change based on memorability, content, and limitations of human visual systems.
[4] Another branch of her research deals with object-vs-scene image processing in human brains, where Oliva and others have postulated that part of our visual system focuses on a fast recognition and classification of a familiar scene (birthday party) rather than individual component objects in the scene (cake).
[5] She has most recently used deep learning to teach computers how to recognize locations in an image by a combination of its features.
[6] Oliva's work has been used by those in the field of artificial imagination, the concept of building a human-like consciousness from computer algorithms.