Nick's research interests relate to shape and object perception and recognition.
Carolyn Bufford
Carolyn's research interests include perceptual learning, its applications to education, and music perception.
Susan Carrigan
Suzy is interested in object perception and recognition. Her current research focuses on contour interpolation and perception of partially occluded objects.
KP Thai
KP is interested in applications of perceptual learning principles to teaching and learning.
Gennady Erlikhman
Genna's current research focuses on the neural correlates of the construction of object representations over space and time.
Joel Zucker
Joel's interests include: researching, designing, and developing learning tools utilizing perceptual learning to improve the way children are introduced to novel subject domains; dog psychology, as applied to deal with behavior issues and shaping complex sequences patterns. Joel is also a dog trainer and has a champion frisbee dog named Bailey.
Eric Koo
Eric is a cognitive science and statistics double major. He is interested in the topics of human-computer interaction, artificial intelligence, and machine learning and plans to go on to graduate school to pursue these areas of research.
Tandra Ghose, Ph.D.
Tandra's research interests include perceptual organization in vision, figure/ground and depth perception, and object perception.
Ji wants to understand how people extract structure and thus is interested in applying perceptual learning to diverse domains.
Robert W. Kojima, Ph.D.
Adaptive and perceptual learning in chemistry education and optimal integration of multimedia in the classroom to reduce cognitive load; utilizing 3-D visualization and computer aided vocabulary training to more effectively present material for cognition.
Brian Keane, Ph.D.
Brian examined functional consequences of filling-in during contour interpolation and the automaticity of interpolation through multiple object tracking. As a post-doc at the medical school of New Jersey (UMDNJ), Brian examines how schizophrenia compromises these abilities.
James Hilger, Ph.D.
James research interests include the learning of abstract categories and models of contour interpolation.
Patrick Garrigan, Ph.D.
How and under what conditions 3D and/or occluded contours and surfaces become represented in the brain.
Evan Palmer, Ph.D.
The perception of moving, occluded objects. We are attempting to formalize a notion of spatiotemporal relatability.
Sharon Guttman, Ph.D.
The mechanisms underlying our perception of illusory contours and partly occluded objects.
Clara's research interests include perceptual learning as it applies to education as well as mind-body interactions and social psychology.
Jenny Chun
Jenny worked on expanding the lab's perceptual learning modules to two very different domains - chemistry and music. She would like to go on to graduate school to explore either learning technologies or human computer interaction.
Kreshnik Begolli
Keko's focus is to improve educational curricula and policy through research in two areas: cognitive learning and social research. His goal is to gain the knowledge and skill set that will advance our future educational system and those of underdeveloped countries.
Jennifer Vanyo
Heidi Vanyo
Rachel Older
Rachel is interested in biological motion, perception of mental states, and the influence of visual phenomena on social interaction.
Faye Tesoro
Visiting Scholars
Renato Fillinich
Renato was an exchange student from Italy and visited as a 2nd year graduate student. He is interested in Cognitive Science and its applications.
Lia Nikolakis
Lia was a visiting graduate student from the University of Trieste (Italy). Lia is interested in web usability, human-computer interaction, cognitive ergonomics, and visuo-spatial organization of information in web layout.
Michela Cinello
Michela came to us as a graduate student from the University of Trieste (Italy). Michela is interested in human factors, user-centered design, visual perception, cognition, human-computer interaction, computer application and interface design.
