Curriculum Vitae

Maggie Shiffrar
Department of Psychology
101 Warren Street
Rutgers University
Newark, NJ 07102
Office: (973) 353-5440 x3948
Lab: (973) 353-5440 x3937
Fax: (973) 353-1171
mag at (@) psychology.rutgers.edu

Professional Experience
2003 - Full Professor. Department of Psychology, Rutgers University-Newark Campus
1999 D 03 Associate Professor & Graduate Director. Department of Psychology, Rutgers University, Newark Campus
1998 Research Associate. Movement & Perception Laboratory, CNRS & University of the Mediterranean
1996 - 99 Associate Professor of Neuroscience and Psychology. Rutgers University, Newark Campus
1991 - 96 Assistant Professor of Neuroscience and Psychology. Rutgers University, Newark Campus

Education

1991 Post-Doctoral Researcher NASA Ames Research Center
Advisor: Albert Ahumada Moffett Field, California
1990 Post-Doctoral Researcher Université de Paris V
Advisor: Claude Bonnet Paris, France
1990 Ph.D. in Psychology Stanford University
Advisors: Misha Pavel Stanford, California
Roger N. Shepard
1985 B.A. in Psychobiology University of California
Advisor: Bruce Bridgeman Santa Cruz, California

Awards and Grants

Research

2003 Elected Fellow of the American Psychological Association

2003 Recipient of the Lansdowne Scholar Award. University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

2003 Max Planck Gesellschaft Scholarship. Max Planck Institute for Psychological , Munich Germany. Total Costs: 3,000 Euros.

2002-06 Principal Investigator, NIH: National Eye Institute, Continuation for "Visual perception of human movement" Total Costs $994,850.

1999-03 Principal Investigator, NIH: National Eye Institute, RO1 EY12300
"Visual perception of human movement" Total Costs $437,402.

1997-99 co-Principal Investigator with Jean Pailhous, NATO Collaborative Research Grants Program, CRG970528 "The visual analysis of human movement" Total Costs: 210,000 Belgian Francs.

1996-97 co-Principal Investigator with Steve Jose Hanson & Barry Komisaruk, New Jersey Commission on Science and Technology, subcontract from the New Jersey Institute of Technology, "Multimedia Environment for Cognitive Science Education Research" Total Costs: $238,000.

1993-98 Principal Investigator, NIH: National Eye Institute, EY09931 "Constraints in image interpretation" Total Costs: $ 481,145.

1993-96 Principal Investigator, NSF: Division of International Programs, INT9216895 "Segmentation and fusion of visual motion information" Total Costs: $ 15,250.

1992 American Psychological Association Young Investigator Travel Award

1991-93 Henry Rutgers Fellowship, Rutgers University. Total Costs: $55,000

1990-91 National Research Council Associateship, NASA Ames Research Center

1989-90 Chateaubriand Post-Doctoral Fellowship from the French Foreign Minister, Universite de Paris V

1986-89 National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship, Stanford University

1985-86 National Institute of Mental Health Graduate Traineeship, Stanford University

1985 College Honors and Honors in Major, University of California at Santa Cruz

Teaching

1996 Principal Investigator, Rutgers Dialogues Grant. "Development of a behavioral science teaching laboratory" Total Costs: $7,000

1996 Principal Investigator, Instruction Related Computing Fund, Rutgers University. "Enlargement of the psychology computer laboratory" & "Development of the psychology teaching laboratory" Combined Total Costs: $ 7,322.

1996 Co-Principal Investigator with Douglas Morrison, Instruction Related Computing Fund, Rutgers University. "Bio-Psychology teaching software" Total Costs: $ 4,991.

1994-95 Principal Investigator, Undergraduate Curriculum Seed Grant, Rutgers University. "Computer laboratory for psychology undergraduate curriculum" Total Costs: $4,488.

Professional Activities

Conference Organization:

2002 D 03 Conference co-organizer: Perception of the human body from the inside out. Munich, Germany, July 3-6, 2003.

2004 Abstract reviewer for the European Conference on Visual Perception

Professional Affiliations (past & current):
American Psychological Association; American Psychological Society; Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology; New York Academy of Sciences; Optical Society of America; Psychonomics Society, Sigma Xi, Society for Cognitive Neuroscience, Vision Sciences Society.

Reviewer:
Ad hoc:
Behavioural Brain Research; Belgian Ministry of Education; Cognition; Cognitive Psychology; Current Biology; French National Center for Scientific Research; Israel Science Foundation; Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience; Journal of Experimental Psychology: General; Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance; Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory & Cognition; Memory & Cognition; National Science Foundation; Nature Reviews Neuroscience; Perception; Perception & Psychophysics; Perceptual & Motor Skills; Psychonomic Bulletin & Review; Psychological Bulletin; Psychological Research, Psychologische Forschung; Psychological Reports; Psychological Science; Spatial Vision; Vision Research; United States Air Force Office of Sponsored Research.

Other

2003 D 07 Advisory committee member for the International Association for the Study of Attention & Performance

2001 D 05 Study section member for the National Institutes of Health; Division of NIMH: Biobehavioral and Behavioral Processes 04 (Renamed Cognition & Perception in 2003)

2000 D pres. Consulting Editor, Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance

2000 - 01 Consulting Editor, Blackwell Handbook of Perception, Blackwell Publishers: Oxford.

1997 NSF Grant Advisory Panelist: Sensory Systems/IBN Division

Invited Talks/Colloquia:
Attention & Performance XIX, Barnard University, Boston University, Cold Spring Harbor, Columbia University, Cornell University, Ecole Superior de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles, Harvard University, International Conference on Perception and Action, Lafayette College, Lake Ontario Visionary Establishment, Ludwig Maximilians University; Max Planck Institute-Munich, NASA Ames Research Center, NEC Research Institute, New York University, Penn State, Princeton University, Rutgers University-New Brunswick, Smith-Kettlewell, Sorbonne, Stanford University, State University of New York at Stony Brook, Temple University, University of Arizona at Tucson, University of California at Santa Cruz, University of Denver, University of Medicine & Dentistry of New Jersey, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, University of the Mediterranean, University of Oregon, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, University of Toronto, University of Victoria, University of Virginia, Vanderbilt University, Yale University.

Publications

Reviewed Articles

 

Biederman, I. & Shiffrar, M. (1987). Sexing day-old chicks: a case study and expert systems analysis of a difficult perceptual learning task. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memor,y and Cognition, 13, 640-645.

 

Gluck, M., Gabor, B., Reifsnider, E., & Shiffrar, M. (1990). A feature review of Neural Computers. Psychological Science, 1, 287-292.

 

Shiffrar, M. & Freyd, J. (1990). Apparent motion of the human body. Psychological Science, 1, 257-264.

 

Shiffrar, M. & Pavel, M. (1991). Percepts of rigid motion within and across apertures.  Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 17, 749-761.

 

Shiffrar, M. & Shepard, R. N. (1991). Comparison of cube rotations around axes inclined relative to the environment or to the cube. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 17, 44-54.

 

Lorenceau, J. & Shiffrar, M. (1992). The influence of terminators on motion integration across space. Vision Research, 32, 263-273.

 

Lorenceau, J., Shiffrar, M., Wells, N., & Castet, E. (1993). Different motion sensitive units are involved in recovering the direction of moving lines. Vision Research, 33, 1207-1217.

 

Castet, E., Lorenceau, J., Shiffrar, M., & Bonnet, C. (1993). Perceived speed of moving lines depends on orientation, length, speed and luminance. Vision Research, 33, 1921-1936.

 

Shiffrar, M. & Freyd, J. (1993). Timing and apparent motion path choice with human body photographs. Psychological Science, 4, 379-384.

 

Shiffrar, M. (1994). When what meets where. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 3, 96-100.

 

Shiffrar, M., Li, X., & Lorenceau, J. (1995). Motion integration across differing image features. Vision Research, 35, 2137-2146.

 

Barchilon Ben-Av, M. & Shiffrar, M. (1995). Disambiguating velocity estimates across image space. Vision Research, 35, 2889-2895.

 

Heptulla-Chatterjee, S., Freyd, J., & Shiffrar, M. (1996). Configural processing in the perception of apparent biological motion. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 22, 916-929.

 

Shiffrar, M. & Lorenceau, J. (1996). Increased motion linking across edges with decreased luminance contrast, edge width and duration. Vision Research, 36, 2061-2067.

 

Shiffrar, M., Lichtey, L., & Heptulla Chatterjee, S. (1997). The perception of biological motion across apertures. Perception & Psychophysics, 59, 51-59.

 

Kourtzi, Z. & Shiffrar, M. (1997). One-shot view invariance in a moving world. Psychological Science, 8, 461-466.

 

Thornton, I., Pinto, J. & Shiffrar, M. (1998). The visual perception of human locomotion. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 15, 535-552.

 

Kourtzi, Z. & Shiffrar, M. (1999). Dynamic representations of human body movement. Perception, 28, 49 - 62.

 

Kourtzi, Z. & Shiffrar, M. (1999). The visual representation of three-dimensional, rotating objects. Acta Psychologica: Special Issue on Object Perception & Memory, 102, 265 - 292.

 

Lorenceau, J. & Shiffrar, M. (1999). The linkage of visual motion signals. Visual Cognition, 6, 431 - 460.

 

Pinto, J. & Shiffrar, M. (1999). Subconfigurations of the human form in the perception of biological motion displays. Acta Psychologica: Special Issue on Object Perception & Memory, 102, 293 - 318.

 

Loula, F., Kourtzi, Z., & Shiffrar, M. (2000). Surface segmentation cues influence negative priming for novel and familiar shapes. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 26, 929 - 944.

 

Stevens, J.A., Fonlupt, P., Shiffrar, M., & Decety, J. (2000). New aspects of motion perception: Selective neural encoding of apparent human movements, NeuroReport, 11, 109 - 115.

 

Kourtzi, Z. & Shiffrar, M. (2001). Visual representation of malleable and rigid objects that deform as they rotate. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 27, 335 - 355.

 

Shiffrar, M. & Pinto, J. (2002). The visual analysis of bodily motion. Common mechanisms in perception and action: Attention and Performance, Vol. XIX. (Prinz, W., & Hommel, B., Eds.) Oxford: Oxford University Press, 381-399.

 

Thornton, I. M., Rensink, R. A., & Shiffrar, M. (2002). Active versus passive processing of biological motion. Perception, 31, 837-853.

 

Brugger, P., Funk, M., Regard, M., & Shiffrar, M. (2004). Phantom limb experience constrains the visual perception of bodily motion, manuscript under review.

 

Chouchourelou, A. & Shiffrar, M. (2004). Social constraints on visual motion perception, under revision following review.

 

Jacobs, A., Pinto, J., & Shiffrar, M. (2004).  Frequency, context, and the visual perception of human movement, Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception & Performance, in press.

 

Pinto, J., Cohen, L., Shipley, T. & Shiffrar, M. (2003). The visual analysis of biological motion: Insights from comparisons of the perception of human and animal motion, under revision following review.

 

Chapters

 

Thornton, I., Pinto, J. & Shiffrar, M. (1998). The visual perception of human locomotion across space and time. In Jean Decety (Ed.), Perception and Action: Recent advances in cognitive neuropsychology. Psychological Press: London.

 

Lorenceau, J. & Shiffrar, M. (1999). The linkage of visual motion signals. In Muriel Boucart (Ed.), The neuroscience of perceptual integration. (pp. 431-460). London: Psychological Press.

 

Shiffrar, M. (2001). Movement and event perception. In Bruce Goldstein (Ed.), The Blackwell Handbook of Perception. (pp. 237-272). Oxford: Blackwell Publishers.

 

Shiffrar, M. (2001). The visual interpretation of object and human movement.  In Tim F. Shipley & Philip J. Kellman (Eds.), Fragments to Objects: Segmentation and Grouping in Vision, Advances in Psychology #130. (pp. 483-508). The Netherlands: Elsevier Science.

 

Conference Presentations

 

Shiffrar, M. & Lorenceau, J. (May, 1991). The role of terminator correspondence in motion integration across contours. Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO), Sarasota, FL.

Lorenceau, J. & Shiffrar, M. (May, 1991). Misperceived direction of motion at low contrast. ARVO, Sarasota, FL.

Pavel, M. & Shiffrar, M. (May, 1991). Computational model of motion integration, ARVO, Sarasota, FL.

Lorenceau, J. & Shiffrar, M. (August, 1991). Propagation of motion signals along contours. European Conference on Visual Perception, Vilnus, Lithuania.

Shiffrar, M. & Pavel, M (November, 1991). Illusions of nonrigidity.  Optical Society of America, San Jose, CA.

Mulligan, J. & Shiffrar, M. (November, 1991). Perceptions of rigidity with rotating ellipses. Optical Society of America, San Jose, CA.

Shiffrar, M. & Freyd, J. (November, 1991). Where did the time go: temporal factors in apparent motion path choice. Psychonomic Society, San Francisco, CA.

Shiffrar, M. & Mulligan, J. (November, 1991).  A test for models of motion processing: nonrigidly perceived rotating ellipses. Psychonomic Society, San Francisco, CA.

Shiffrar, M. & Freyd, J. (July, 1992). Biological constraints on apparent motion. International Congress of Psychology, Brussels, Belgium.

Shiffrar, M. & Li, X. (August, 1992). New studies of coherence: The spotted barber pole. European Conference on Visual Perception, Pisa, Italy.

Shiffrar, M. & Li, X. (November, 1992). How does the visual system combine motion signals having differing degrees of ambiguity? Annual Meeting of the Psychonomics Society, St. Louis, MO.

Ben-Av, M. & Shiffrar, M. (May, 1993). When ambiguous becomes unambiguous. ARVO, Sarasota, FL.

Shiffrar, M., Heptulla, S., O'Shaughnessy, M. & Freyd, J. (November, 1993). What does it mean to be sensitive to biological motion? Annual Meeting of the Psychonomics Society, Washington, D.C.

Shiffrar, M., Vaghela, K., & Heptulla, S. (March, 1994). Percepts of biological motion across disconnected apertures. Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, CA.

Shiffrar, M. & Lorenceau, J. (May, 1994). Improved motion integration at isoluminance. ARVO, Sarasota, FL.

Shiffrar, M. (February, 1995) The visual interpretation of object motion. Lake Ontario Vision Establishment Conference, Niagara Falls, Canada.

Shiffrar, M., Lorenceau, J. & Pavel, M. (May, 1995). What is a corner? Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, Ft. Lauderdale, FL.

Heptulla, S. & Shiffrar, M. (May, 1995). Linking ambiguous and unambiguous motion signals across variations in angle. Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, Ft. Lauderdale, FL.

Thornton, I., Khurana, B., Nijhawan, R., & Shiffrar, M. (May, 1995). Motion extrapolation in black and white. Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, Ft. Lauderdale, FL.

Shiffrar, M. (July, 95). The visual perception of biological motion across time. International Conference on Perception and Action, Marseille, France.

Shiffrar, M., Lichtey, L., & Heptulla-Chatterjee, S. (November, 1995). Percepts of biological motion and non-biological motion across apertures. Annual Meeting of the Psychonomics Society, Los Angeles, CA.

Kourtzi, Z. & Shiffrar, M. (April, 1996). From view dependency to view invariance: A spatiotemporal continuum. Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, CA.

Kourtzi, Z. & Shiffrar, M. (May, 1996). One-Shot view invariance in a moving world. Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, Ft. Lauderdale, FL.

Lorenceau, J., Zago, L. & Shiffrar, M. (May, 1996). Binding motion signals across space, scales, and features. Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, Ft. Lauderdale, FL.

Thornton, I. & Shiffrar, M. (May, 1996). Testing the temporal limits of biological motion processing. Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, Ft. Lauderdale, FL.

Kourtzi, Z. & Shiffrar, M. (October, 1996). Viewpoint invariance in a moving world. Object Perception and Memory Workshop, Chicago, IL.

Shiffrar, M., Loula, F. & Kourtzi, Z. (November, 1996). The role of occlusion in the representation of novel figures. Annual Meeting of the Psychonomics Society, Chicago, IL.

Baruz, A. & Shiffrar, M. (May, 1997). Motion linking across space and time at isoluminance. Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, Ft. Lauderdale, FL.

Kourtzi, Z. & Shiffrar, M. (May, 1997). Where did what object move? Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, Ft. Lauderdale, FL.

Loula, F., Kourtzi, Z. & Shiffrar, M. (May, 1997). Contour versus surface based representations of illusory figures. Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, Ft. Lauderdale, FL.

Pinto, J., Z. Zhao, & Shiffrar, M. (May, 1997). What is biological motion? Part 2: Generalization to non-human animal forms. Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, Ft. Lauderdale, FL.

Shiffrar, M. & Pinto, J. (May, 1997). What is biological motion? Part 1: Constituents of human form. Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, Ft. Lauderdale, FL.

Loula, F. & Shiffrar, M. (May, 1998). Image segmentation cues can eliminate negative priming. Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, Ft. Lauderdale, FL.

Kourtzi, Z. & Shiffrar, M. (May, 1998). The representation of deforming objects as continuous events. Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, Ft. Lauderdale, FL.

Stevens, A., Fonlupt, P., Shiffrar, M., Decety, J. (April, 1999) Selective recruitment of motor and parietal cortex during visual perception of apparent human movement. Cognitive Neuroscience Society, Washington, D.C.

Loula, F., Kourtzi, Z. & Shiffrar, M. (May, 1999). Representation of unattended surfaces and contours. Pre-attentive and attentive mechanisms in vision. Ft. Lauderdale, FL.

Loula, F. & Shiffrar, M. (August, 1999). Perceptual Priming is Asymmetric. European Conference on Visual Perception, Trieste, Italy.

Thornton, I. M., Rensink, R. A., & Shiffrar, M. (August, 1999). Active versus passive processing of biological motion. European Conference on Visual Perception, Trieste, Italy.

Pinto, J. & Shiffrar, M. (November, 1999). Visual analysis of human and animal biological motion displays. Annual Meeting of the Psychonomics Society, Los Angeles, CA.

Loula, F. & Shiffrar, M. (May, 2000). The representation of multiple unattended objects. Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, Ft. Lauderdale, FL.

Brugger, P., Regard, M., & Shiffrar, M. (September 2000). Hand movement observation in a person born without hands: is body scheme innate? Swiss Neurological Society. London, England.

Jacobs, A., Pinto, J., & Shiffrar, M. (November, 2000). What determines visual sensitivity to human movement? Object Perception and Memory. New Orleans, LA.

Loula, F., & Shiffrar, M. (November, 2000). Multiple ignored objects can be implicitly represented. Annual Meeting of the Psychonomics Society, New Orleans, LA.

Shiffrar, M. (June, 2001). The visual analysis of bodily movement. International Conference on Cognitive and Neural Systems, Boston.

Pinto, J., & Shiffrar, M. (November, 2001). How general is the visual analysis of biological motion? Annual Meeting of the Psychonomics Society, Orlando, FL.

McDowd, J., Loula, F., & Shiffrar, M. (November, 2001). Aging and perceptual cues in negative priming. Annual Meeting of the Psychonomics Society, Orlando, FL.

Chouchourelou, A., & Shiffrar, M. (May, 2002). Timing and the interpretation of apparent motion in human and animal displays. Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, Sarasota, FL.

Danatzko, K., Pinto, J., & Shiffrar, M. (2002). Perceptual learning and point-light human actions. Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, Sarasota, FL.

Jacobs, A., Pinto, J., & Shiffrar, M. (May, 2002). Frequency, context, and human motion perception. Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, Sarasota, FL.

Pinto, J. Parke, K., & Shiffrar, M. (May, 2002). Change mindfulness: Attention to human movement. Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, Sarasota, FL.

Santiago, P., Chouchourelou, A., Jacobs, A., Danatzko, K., Dagan, R., Cohen, L., & Shiffrar, M. (May, 2002). Recognition of objects and actions. Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, Sarasota, FL.

Shiffrar, M., & Pinto, J. (May, 2002). Are we visual animals? Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, Sarasota, FL.

Jacobs, A.  & Shiffrar, M. (November, 2002). Something in the way she moves? Experience effects in action perception. Annual Meeting of the Psychonomics Society, Kansas City, MO.

Chouchourelou, A. & Shiffrar, M. (November, 2002). When and why is the perception of human movement special? Object Perception and Memory, Kansas City, MO.

Chouchourelou, A. & Shiffrar, M. (March, 2003). Temporal characteristics of the visual analysis of human and animal movement. Annual meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, New York City.

Jacobs, A. & Shiffrar, M. (March, 2003). Can visual expertise account for visual sensitivity to human movement? Annual meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, New York City.

Pinto, J. & Shiffrar, M. (March, 2003). How general are the processes underlying the perception of human movement? Annual meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, New York City.

Shiffrar, M. (April, 2003). When and why do the visual analyses of human motion and object motion differ? Euroconference on computational mechanisms for the generation and perception of action in 3D space. Acquafredda di Maratea, Italy.

Chouchourelou, A. & Shiffrar, M. (April, 2003). Social meaning influences the visual analysis of human movement. Euroconference on computational mechanisms for the generation and perception of action in 3D space. Acquafredda di Maratea, Italy.

Jacobs, A. & Shiffrar, M. (May, 2003). Motor activity influences the visual analysis of human movement. Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, Sarasota, FL.

Chouchourelou, A., Loula, F. & Shiffrar, M. (May, 2003). Meaning influences the perception of apparent human motion. Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, Sarasota, FL.

Jacobs, A. & Shiffrar, M. (November, 2003). Taking a walk with a point-light walker.  Psychonomics, Vancouver, British Columbia.

Prasad, S., Loula, F., & Shiffrar, M. (November, 2003). Comparing recognition of self, friend, and stranger movements. Object Perception and Memory. Vancouver, British Columbia.

Grosjean, M., Knoblich, G., & Shiffrar, M. (2004, April). Perception of speed-accuracy tradeoffs in action. 46th Tagung Experimentell Arbeitender Psychologen, Giessen, Germany.

 

 

Teaching Experience

 

1985                Experimental Psychology (with I. Biederman) U.C. Santa Cruz

1986                Introduction to Statistical Methods (with M. Pavel). Stanford

1987                Introduction to Psychology for Majors, Computer Laboratory. (with P. Zimbardo) Stanford University

1987 - 88         Introduction to Psychology via Computer. TeleLearning University, San Francisco, CA

1988                Cognitive Psychology (with B. Tversky). Stanford University

1988                Introduction to Psychology. Stanford University

1991 -              Graduate Cognitive Psychology, Undergraduate Cognitive Processes, Graduate Visual Perception & Physiology, Graduate Advanced Perception, Graduate Object Recognition, Graduate Journal Club in Cognitive Neuroscience. Graduate Pro-Seminar. Introduction to Psychology. Rutgers University

 

 

Advanced Students Supervised

 

Post-Doctoral Researchers

1993 - 94         Mercedes Ben-Av Barchilon              Velocity integration across space

1995 - 01         Jeannine Pinto                                     Biological motion

1996 - 97         Xiaojun Li                                             Depth and rotation

2001 - 02         Leslie Cohen                                        Autism & movement perception

2002 Ð 04        Fani Loula                                            Biological motion

 

Graduate Students

1991 - 93         Michael O'Shaughnessy                     Form in biological motion

1992 - 98         Sheba Heptulla-Chatterjee                Form & motion integration

1993 - 95         Ian Thornton                                       Feature binding

1993 - 98         Zoe Kourtzi                                         Dynamic object representation

1995 - 00         Fani Loula                                            Selective attention & surface cues

1996 - 97         Judy Zhao                                            Biological motion perception

1999 - 04         Alissa Jacobs                                        Gait frequency and perception

2000 - 2006               Areti Chouchouelou                           The social visual system

2002 -2006              Sapna Prasad                                       Self perception