Perception & Action
One large group of faculty and students focus their research on understanding the organization and function of the visual system. Members of this group use a range of perceptual, physiological, anatomical and computational methods to investigate the optics of the eye, signal processing in the retina and at higher levels in the visual pathway, and the mechanisms underlying the perception of color, motion, shape, and other attributes of visual images. Many investigators also study the integration of visual perception with memory and motor organization. The Center for Visual Science, an interdisciplinary research unit to which many faculty, fellows and students in the department belong, provides the focus for research on vision, drawing us together with scientists from the departments of Computer Science, Ophthalmology, Neurobiology and Anatomy, Neurology, and the Institute of Optics.
Primary Faculty
 Experience and the development of perceptual-motor systems |
 Early visual and linguistic experience and cortical organization |
 Electrophysiological indicators of cognitive function |
 Neural mechanisms of depth and motion perception |
 Sensory and perceptual modulation of reflexive behaviors |
 Computational Cognition and Perception |
 Visual perception and visuo-motor control; computational vision |
 Functional organization of visual pathways; Mechanisms of color vision |
 Functional organization of vision |
 Mechanisms of Sensory Systems Plasticity, Learning and Memory Formation |
 Population coding; spatial representation in vision |
 Mechanisms of visual perception |
 Cellular Basis of Visual and Auditory Learning |
*Not accepting graduate students
Secondary Faculty
 Neural processing of motion, spatial orientation |
 Improving vision after damage—perceptual learning and physiological optics |
 Organization of visual cortex in humans and non-human primates |
 Processing of complex acoustic signals in the central auditory system |
 Vestibular, multisensory, and adaptive control of spatial orientation and balance |
 Perception of motion and MT |
 Neural control of individuated finger movements |
 The limits of human vision |