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Professor of Psychology
Ph.D. 1981 (physiology), Cambridge; B.A. 1975 (applied mathematics), Harvard.
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Research Interests: visual perception; the computation underlying visual letter identification, and more generally, object recognition; how physiological sources of visual nerves limit what we see.
Affiliations: Adjunct Professor, Department of Psychology, Syracuse University, 1991-1995; Research Professor, Department of Ophthalmology, Health Science Center, State University of New York, Syracuse, 1991-present; Society for Neuroscience; Worshipful Company of Spectacle Makers; Optical Society of America; Psychonomics; Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology.
Fellowships/Honors: Outstanding Faculty Research Award, Sigma Xi, 1991; NASA-Stanford Summer Faculty Institute Fellowship, Stanford University, 1985, 1987; Freeman of the Worshipful Company of Spectacle Makers, the British opticians guild, 1979.
Selected Works:
"The role of spatial-frequency channels in letter identification," with N. J. Majaj, P. Kurshan, and M. Palomares. Vision Research. Forthcoming.
"Identifying letters," with C. W. Burns, B. Farell and D. C. Moore. Vision Research. Forthcoming 2000.
"Close encounters an artist shows that size affects shape." Science, 285. 1999. 844-846. (To be reprinted in Best American Science Writing 2000, James Gleick, ed., Ecco Press.)
"An artist's work blurs the lines between art and science." New York Times. August 10, 1999. F5.
"Why use noise?," with B. Farrel. Journal of the Optical Society of America A, 16. 1999. 647-653.
"The visual channel mediating letter identification," with Solomon, J. A. Nature 369. 1994. 395-397.
"Can we attend to large and small at the same time?," with Farell, B. Vision Research, 33. 1993. 2757-2772.
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