Recent PhDs from our program are now postdocs and faculty at various
universities and researchers in key industries. Beyond the PhD Advisor
listings here, consult individual faculty
pages for mentoring at other levels and institutions. For most students,
PubMed
links are supplied to help you find some of their publications. However,
many students also have publications in journals not included in PubMed,
and you may find additional publications in other databases such as
PsychInfo
(from within NYU), ISI Web of
Science, Scirus. This page
includes most of the students who have received the PhD from our program
since 1990.
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Dr. Katherine Duncan
Postdoctoral Researcher
Department of Psychology
Columbia University
PhD 2011: Neural and cognitive mechanisms underlying human episodic encoding and retrieval
Advisor: Lila Davachi |
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Dr. Emma Ferneyhough
Postdoctoral Researcher
Department of Psychology
University of California, Berkeley
PhD 2011: Emotional modulation of visual attention
Advisor: Elizabeth Phelps and Marisa Carrasco |
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Dr. John Franchak
Postdoctoral Researcher
Department Psychology
New York University
PhD 2011: Perception and action in infants, children, and adults
Advisor: Karen Adolph |
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Dr. Holly Gerhard
Postdoctoral Researcher
Computational Vision & Neuroscience Lab
Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tuebingen, Germany
PhD 2010: Processing in visual and motor tasks
Advisor: Larry Maloney |
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Dr. Catherine Hartley
Postdoctoral Researcher
Sackler Institute for Developmental Psychobiology
Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York
PhD 2011: Individual differences in the expression and control of conditioned fear
Advisor: Elizabeth Phelps |
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Dr. Katrin Herrmann
Academic Research Program Manager
GE Healthcare, Munich, Germany
PhD 2011: How attention affects visual processing: Testing the normalization model of attention
Advisor: Marisa Carrasco and David Heeger |
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Dr. Akiko Ikkai
Postdoctoral Researcher
Department Psychology
Johns Hopkins University
PhD 2010: Roles of prefrontal and posterior parietal cortices in the control of spatial attention
Advisor: Clay Curtis |
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Dr. Shin Woo Kim
Assistant Professor
Department of Industrial Psychology
Kwangwoon University, Seoul, South Korea
PhD 2010: The role of knowledge representation in categorization, category learning, and typicality
Advisor: Bob Rehder |
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Dr. Andrea Martin
Post-Doctoral Researcher
Basque Center on Cognition, Brain, and Language (BCBL)
PhD 2010: Memory operations and structures in sentence comprehension: Evidence from ellipsis
Advisor: Brian McElree |
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Dr. Leila Montaser-Kouhsari
Postdoctoral Researcher
Department Neuroeconomics
California Institute of Technology
PhD 2010: How modulatory factors affect visual perception: The role of context, location and attention
Advisor: Marisa Carrasco and David Heeger |
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Dr. Hugh Rabagliati
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Department of Cognitive, Linguistic and Psychological Sciences
Brown University
PhD 2010: Shifting senses in semantic developments
Advisor: Gary Marcus |
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Dr. Peter Sokol-Hessner
Postdoctoral Scholar in Neuroeconomics
California Institute of Technology
PhD 2010: Integrating Emotion and Decision-Making: Implicit Bias, Arousal, and Regulation
Advisor: Elizabeth Phelps |
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Dr. Kasey Soska
Post-Doctoral Researcher
Department of Psychology
University of Virginia
PhD 2010: Developmental Cascades: From Postural Control to Visual Cognition
Advisor: Karen Adolph |
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Dr. Jacqueline M. Fulvio
Post-Doctoral Researcher
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
PhD 2009: Completion of occluded contours: Evidence against an isomorphism model of internal representation
Advisor: Larry Maloney |
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Dr. Stuart Fuller
Post-Doctorate Research Associate
The Backus Lab
State College of Optometry (SUNY)
PhD 2009:
Exogenous attention: effects on appearance and the influence of cue salience
Advisor: Marisa Carrasco
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Dr. Simone Gill
Assistant Professor
Department of Occupational Therapy
Boston University
PhD 2009: The Development of Adaptation
Advisor: Karen Adolph |
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Dr. Shaziela Ishak
Assistant Professor
Psychology, School of Social Science and Human Services
Ramapo College of New Jersey
PhD 2009 Detecting Possibilities for Action by Infants, Children & Adults
Advisor: Karen Adolph |
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Dr. Barbara Montagna
PhD 2009: Perceptual Consequences of Endogenous and Exogenous Attention
Advisor: Marisa Carrasco |
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Dr. Bernhard Staresina
Sir Henry Wellcome Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Epileptology
University of Bonn
PhD 2009: Neural and cognitive mechanisms underlying episodic memory formation in humans
Advisor: Lila Davachi |
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Dr. Yun-Xian Ho
Manager - Data Analysis
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
PhD 2008
Advisors: Mike Landy and Larry Maloney |
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Dr. Iike Oztekin
Post-Doctorate Research Associate
Department of Cognitive & Linguistic Sciences
Brown University
PhD 2008 Cognitive and Neural Mechanisms that Support Retrieval from Working Memory
Advisor: Brian McElree |
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Dr. Franco Pestilli
Post-Doctorate Fellow
Department of Neuroscience
Columbia University
PhD 2008 The Effects of Attention on Contrast Perception
Advisor: Marisa Carrasco |
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Dr. Sarah Shuwairi
Assistant Professor of Psychology
Department of Psychology
Lehman College (CUNY)
PhD 2008 The Development of Coherent Object Processing in Early Infancy
Advisor: Karen Adolph |
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Dr. Shih-Wei Wu
Assistant Professor, Cognitive Neuroscience
School of Life Science
National Yang-Ming University, Taiwan
PhD 2008 Human decision under risk in goal-directed movements
Advisor: Larry Maloney |
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Dr. Aaron B. Hoffman
Post-Doctorate Student
Department of Psychology
University of Texas at Auston
PhD 2007 Attention Dynamics in Category Learning
Advisor: Bob Rehder
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Dr. Sam Ling
Post- Doctorate Researcher
Department of Psychology
Vanderbilt University
PhD 2007 How Attention Affects Perception
Advisor: Marisa Carrasco |
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Dr. Katja Doerschner
Assistant Professor
Bilkent University, Turkey
PhD 2006: Perception of Surface Color in Complex Three-Dimensional Scenes
Advisor: Larry Maloney |
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Dr. Amy Joh
Assistant Professor
Department of Psychology & Neuroscience
Duke University
PhD 2006 Prospective Control of Action in Infants, Children, and Adults
Advisor: Karen Adolph |
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Dr. Sara Levens
PhD 2006
Advisor: Elizabeth Phelps
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Dr. Andreas Olsson
Post-Doctorate/Visiting Researcher
Karolinska Institute State Research
PhD: 2006 Learning From and About Others: The Cognitive Neuroscience of Social Fear Learning
Advisor: Elizabeth Phelps
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Dr. Tali Sharot
Research Fellow
Welcome Trust Center for Neuroimaging
University College - London
PhD 2006
Advisor: Elizabeth Phelps |
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Dr. Jacquline Snyder
Post-Doctorate/Visiting Researcher
Karolinska Institute State Research University in Sweden
PhD 2006: Scene Segmentation in Depth: Human Visual Information Processing of Multi-Dimensional Displays
Advisor: Larry Maloney |
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Dr. Dima Amso
Assistant Professor of Psychology in Psychiatry
Sackler Institute for Developmental Psychobiology
Weill Medical College of Cornell University
PhD 2005: Visual Selective Attention in Infancy: Support for Early Perception and Learning
Advisor: Scott Johnson |
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Dr. Mathieu Le Corre
Assistant Professor
Department of Psychology
University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
PhD 2005 The Construction of the Positive Integers: A Case Study of Human Cognition as a Product of Evolution and Culture
Advisor: Susan Carey |
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Dr. Stephani Foraker
Assistant Professor
Department of Psychology
SUNY College at Buffalo
PhD 2004 The Mechanisms Involved in the Pronominence of Referent Representations During Pronoun Conference
Advisor: Brian McElree |
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Dr. Lisa Feigenson
Assistant Professor
Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences
John Hopkins University
PhD 2003 On the Computations Underlying Infants' Representation of Objects and Number
Advisor: Susan Carey
PubMed |
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Dr. Karen S. Frieder
Psychologist
North Central Bronx Hospital
PhD 2003: Negative priming and covert attention: Implications for studying clinical populations with attentional deficits
Advisor: Marisa Carrasco
PubMed |
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Dr. Justin Halberda
Assistant Professor, Dept. of Psychological & Brain Sciences
Johns Hopkins University
PhD 2003: Word-learning as logical inference: Disjunctive syllogism and the word-learning strategy mutual exclusivity across development
Advisor: Susan Carey
PubMed |
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Dr. Ipek Oruç
Research Associate
Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences
University of British Columbia
PhD 2003 Three Studies on Perception of Texture-Defined Form and Depth Cue Combination
Advisor: Mike Landy |
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Dr. Melissa Allen Preissler
Lecturer (Assistant Professor)
Lancaster University
PhD 2003: Picture representation in children with autism and normally developing 24-month-old toddlers
Advisor: Susan Carey
PubMed |
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Dr. Cigdem Penpeci Talgar
Assistant Research Scientist, Institute for Pediatric Neuroscience
New York University Child Study Center
(working with Xavier Castellanos)
PhD 2002: Characterizing the attentional mechanisms that affect perception
Advisor: Marisa Carrasco
PubMed |
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Dr. Sarah E. Berger
Assistant Professor
Department of Psychology
College of Staten Island and the Graduate Center, CUNY
PhD 2001: Cognition in Locomotion: Infants' Executive Functioning in Goal-Directed Locomotor Tasks
Advisor: Karen Adolph
PubMed |
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Dr. Glen M. Doniger
Cognitive Neurophysiology Laboratory, Cognitive Neuroscience and Schizophrenia Program
Nathan Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research
PhD 2001: High-density electrical mapping of perceptual closure processes
Advisor: Gay Snodgrass
PubMed |
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Dr. Jin Fan
Assistant Professor
Department of Psychiatry & Neuroscience
Mount Sinai School of Medicine
PhD 2000 Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Source Versus Fact Memory
Advisor: Gay Snodgrass
PubMed — "J. Fan AND (Sackler OR Posner)" |
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Dr. Patrick O. Dolan
Asspcoate Professor and Chair
Psychology Department
Drew University
PhD 1999 Response Biases, Implicit Learning, and the Effects of Age
Advisor: Larry L. Jacoby
PubMed — "P.O. Dolan NOT nursing" |
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Dr. Joong Nam Yang
Research Associate
NASA Ames Research Center
(working with Jeff Mulligan)
PhD 1999: Illuminant estimation in surface color perception
Advisor: Larry Maloney
PubMed — "J.N. Yang AND perception" |
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Dr. Wayne Yang (formerly Wei Yang)
Co-founder and Chief Technical Officer (CTO)
Mintel Learning Technology, Inc.
PhD 1999: Lifetime of human visual sensory memory: Properties and neural substrate
Advisor: Marisa Carrasco
PubMed — "W. Yang AND memory" |
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Dr. Yaffa Yeshurun
Assistant Professor of Psychology
University of Haifa, Israel
PhD 1999: How does attention aid visual perception? Support for enhanced resolution
Advisor: Marisa Carrasco
PubMed — "Y. Yeshurun AND attention" |
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Dr. Hikari Kinjo
School of Social Information Studies
Otsuma Women's University, Japan
PhD 1998: Recognition memory vs. source memory: A comparison of their time-course in a speed-accuracy trade-off paradigm
Advisor: Gay Snodgrass
PubMed — "H. Kinjo AND (snodgrass OR memory)" |
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Dr. Gisela Jia
Assistant Professor of Psychology
Lehmann College, City University of New York (CUNY)
PhD 1998: Beyond brain maturation: The critical period hypothesis in second language acquisition revisited
Advisors: Doris Aaronson, Brian McElree, and Martin D.S. Braine
PubMed does not include the journals in which Dr. Jia has published. Please consult other databases such as PsychInfo or ISI Web of Science.
Scirus - "Jia, G. and language" |
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Dr. Peter D. Sparks
Department of Psychology & Center for Neuroscience
University of Colorado at Boulder
PhD 1998: The role of the septal complex in the modulation of emotion
Advisor: Joseph LeDoux
PubMed — "P.D. Sparks NOT emission NOT magnetization" |
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Dr. Sabina Wolfson
Associate Research Scientist
Psychology Department
Columbia University
PhD 1998: Thrice Rice: Three Studies in Texture Perception
Advisor: Mike Landy
PubMed |
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Dr. Tanya Yuditsky
Engineering Research Psychologist
Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)
PhD 1998 Picture Naming and Picture Fragment Identification: An Investigation Using a Priming Paradigm
Advisor: Gay Snodgrass
PubMed does not include the journals in which Dr. Yuditsky has published. Please consult other databases such as PsychInfo or ISI Web of Science. |
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Dr. Maria A. Morgan
Postdoctoral Fellow
Laboratory of Neurobiology and Behavior
Rockefeller University
(working with Donald Pfaff)
PhD 1997: Prefrontal cortex subregions and their involvement in the acquisition and extinction of conditioned fear
Advisor: Joseph LeDoux
PubMed — "M. Morgan AND (ledoux OR pfaff OR rockefeller)" |
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Dr. Yingrui Yang
Associate Professor (with Tenure)
Department of Cognitive Science
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
PhD 1997 Predicting the Difficulty of Predicate-Logic Inference Problems: An Empirical Examination of a Predicate Logic Model
Advisor: David P. O'Brien and Gay Snodgrass
PubMed — "Y. Yang AND (logic OR Rensselaer OR Johnson-Laird)" |
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Dr. Mark J. Young
Designer
Google
PhD 1996 The Internal Representation of Visually Perceived Three-Dimensional Shape: A Test for Metric Structure on Local Surface Patches
Advisor: Mike Landy
PubMed — "M. Young AND Landy" |
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Dr. Janet Mindes
Consultant
Center for Bioethics
Columbia University
PhD 1995: The relationship between affect and recognition memory for reproductions of paintings
Advisor: Gay Snodgrass
PubMed |
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Dr. Miriam Z. Mintzer
Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Johns Hopkins University
PhD 1995: The cost of surface change in recognition memory for pictures and words
Advisor: Gay Snodgrass
PubMed |
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Dr. Russell G. Phillips
Deltagen Inc.
PhD 1994: Hippocampal and amygdala interactions in the formation of emotional memories to context: Fear and loathing in context
Advisor: Joseph LeDoux
PubMed — "R. Phillips AND (LeDoux OR Sapolsky)" |
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Dr. Patricia J. Brooks
Professor
Department of Psychology
College of Staten Island and the Graduate Center, CUNY
PhD 1993: What do Children Know about Universal Quantifiers?
Advisor: Martin D.S. Braine
PubMed includes only some of the journals that Dr. Brooks has published in.
Scirus - "Brooks, P.J. and children" |
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Dr. Pamela Dalton
Member
Monell Chemical Senses Center
PhD 1993: Context Effects on Item and Source Memory
Advisor: Gay Snodgrass
PubMed — "P. Dalton AND perception" |
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 Dr. R. Brooke Lea
Associate Professor of Psychology
Macalester College
PhD 1993: The time course of propositional-logic inferences in text comprehension
Advisor: Martin D.S. Braine
PubMed |
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Dr. Joshua Solomon
Reader
Department of Optometry and Visual Science
City University, London
PhD 1992: 2nd-Order Processes in the Human Perception of Motion and Texture
Advisor: George Sperling
PubMed — "J.A. Solomon AND (perception or mathematica)" |
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Dr. Yael Cycowicz
Cognitive Electrophysiology Laboratory
New York State Psychiatric Institute
PhD 1992: Suppression of spontaneous cortical activity during visual and verbal tasks
Advisor: Lloyd Kaufman
PubMed |
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Dr. Ira A. Noveck
Team Leader of Reasoning, Development, and Pragmatics
Institut des Sciences Cognitives
Centre National de Recherche Scientifique
Lyon, France
PhD 1992: How is performance on the selection task affected by pragmatic reasoning schemas?
Advisor: Martin D.S. Braine
PubMed
Scirus |
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Dr. Shui-I Shih
Lecturer, Department of Psychology
University of Southampton
PhD 1992: Attentional components in early visual processing: A strength model of visual selective attention
Advisor: George Sperling
PubMed |
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Dr. Joshua A. Solomon
Senior Lecturer in Optometry
Applied Vision Research Centre, City University, London
PhD 1992: 2nd-order processes in the human perception of motion and texture
Advisor: George Sperling
PubMed — "J.A. Solomon AND (perception or mathematica)" |
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Dr. Maria Kambouri
Lecturer, Institute of Education
University of London
PhD 1991: Knowledge assessment: A comparison between human experts and computerized procedures
Advisors: Jean-Claude Falmagne and Mike Landy
PubMed does not include the journals in which Dr. Kambouri has published. Please consult other databases such as PsychInfo or ISI Web of Science.
Scirus |
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Dr. Kisok Kim
Associate Professor of Psychology, Department of Psychology
Iona College, New Rochelle, NY
PhD 1991: Recognition memory: the effect of speed versus accuracy instructions and study time in the mirror effect
Advisor: Murray Glanzer
PubMed — "K. Kim AND memory" |
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Dr. Daniel Kiper
Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter (Research Associate)
Institute of Neuroinformatics
University of Zurich and Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich
PhD 1991: The spatial vision of monkeys with experimental strabismus
Advisor: Tony Movshon
PubMed |
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Dr. Sophie Wuerger
Lecturer in Cognitive Science and Cognitive Neuroscience
Department of Psychology
University of Liverpool, UK
PhD 1991: Depth interpolation, structure-from-motion for chromatic and luminance stimuli, and color appearance under chromatic adaptation
Advisors: Mike Landy and John Krauskopf
PubMed |
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Dr. Karl Gegenfurtner
Professor
Dept. of Psychology
Giessen University, Germany
PhD 1990: Iconic memory, color discrimination and contrast detection
Advisors: George Sperling, John Krauskopf, and Tony Movshon
PubMed |
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Dr. Suzan Uysal
Clinical Instructor, Dept. of Anesthesiology, Mount Sinai School of Medicine
& Staff Neuropsychologist, Phelps Hospital, North Tarrytown
& Adjunct Faculty, Psychology Dept., NYU
PhD 1990: The effects of chronic naltrexone treatment on lateral hypothalmic self-stimulation, stimulation-escape and stimulation-induced feeding
Advisor: Ted Coons
PubMed — "S. Uysal AND (Mt.Sinai OR Carr OR Reich)" |
