In the High Level Perception Lab we use behavioral and computational methods, including Virtual Reality, to study how we represent complex visual and multimodal information. We are investigating questions such as:
- How do we encode faces in memory?
- Why do we perceive coherent motion in random noise?
- What can virtual reality perception teach us about reality perception?
- Can people be trained to draw faces accurately from memory?
- What are the multisensory processes involved in Misophonia?
Current Lab Members
Principal Investigator
Graduate Students
- Allison Allen
- Ben Hughes
- Ghazaleh Mahzouni
- Matt Evans
Postdoctoral Associate
- Pat Samermit
Research Assistants
- Pablo Gaeta
- Veda Reddy
- Joy Churchill
- Moorea Welch
- Abigail Vasquez
- Jackson Burke
- Michael Young
- Claire Iballa
- Hassan Naeem (senior thesis)
- Julia Mcclellan (senior thesis)
Alumni
Graduate Students
- Jennifer Day, Ph.D ’19
- Pat Samermit, Ph.D ’18
Undergraduate Research Assistants
- Kayla Huynh (lab manager) ’19
- Stephanie Albor-Rueda ’19
- Sean McDougall ’19
- Max Schooley ’19
- Kevin Chu ’19
- Bernard Ibarra ’19
- Dina Polanco-Mendoza ’19
- Sabrina Fielder ’19
- Mikaela Sand ’19
- Alexis Madrigal ’18
- Cesia Jovel ’18
- Rupsha Panda ’18
- Alicia James ’18
- Karen Annell ’18
- Clara Lieberman ’18
- Alisia Martinez, BA ’17
- Brent Hickey, BA ’17
- Sara Sebahar, BA ’17
- Jeremy Saal, BA ’17
- Alex Olivares, BA ’17
- Spencer Murphy, BA ’17
- Chan (QC) Vu, BA ’16
- James Moore, BA ’16
- Erika Legernes, BA ’16
- Jake Acalin, BA ’16
- Joe Goldin
- Tanner Person, BA ’16
- John Collins, BS ’16
- Azad Balabanian, BS ’16
- Brianna Jeska ’15
- Philip Begel ’15
- Melissa Hirahara ’15
- Mackenzie Englund, BA ’15
- Vince Steffens, BA ’15
- Yeram Cheong, BA ’14
- Lisa Clark, BA ’14
- Corinne Olafsen, BA ’14
- Robert Miller, BA ’14
- Ben Cashman, BA ’14
- Michael Betts, BA ’14
- John Rogers, BA ’14
- Alexander (Zeke) Ambard, BA ’13
- Jacob Smith, BA ’13
- Jobert Vargas, BA ’13
- Daniel Walder, BA ’13
- Amanda Waterman, BA ’13