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
Research2003 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.
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.
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.
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
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