Maggie Shiffrar

Professor I
Ph.D., Stanford University
Rutgers University, Psychology Department.
101 Warren Street, Newark, NJ 07102
Smith Hall Room 324
Phone-Office: (973) 353-5440 x3948
Lab: (973) 353-5440 x3937
Fax: (973) 353-1171
E-mail: mag at(@) psychology.rutgers.edu
Lab: Website

Research Interests

The goal of my research is to understand how the visual system interprets moving objects. To develop a unified understanding of visual system function, members of my laboratory examine the relationships between visual physiology and visual perception for both "high" and "low" levels of analysis. This includes behavioral studies of the visual analysis of human movement, implicit memory of objects in motion, and the role of image segmentation cues in motion coherence and visual memory for shape.
At present, our primary focus of research concerns the visual analysis of human action. We're examining how visual experience, motor experience, and social processes all contribute to the visual analysis of human movement.