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led by alan stocker, research in the computational perception and cognition (CPC) laboratory is aimed at finding a principled, normative description of perceptual and cognitive behaviors. is there a general underlying hypothesis that can explain human perception and cognition, and thus allows us to connect a wide range of seemingly unrelated behaviors? the focus is on deriving mathematical models based on such a hypothesis, and to test them with psychophysical and (through collaboration) physiological experiments. the laboratory's logo is meant to reflect this interdisciplinary approach.
news
- 11/01/2011 - toni saarela is joining our group as a post-doctoral fellow. before coming here, he has been at NYU where he worked with mike landy. welcome toni!
- 09/01/2011 - freshly graduated from princeton, alex tank is joining our lab as a research specialist. welcome!
- 06/01/2011 - priya patel and evan russek are joining the lab for the summer. priya is the recipient of a PURM scholarship, and evan is participating in our computational neuroscience summer program. welcome!
- 05/24/2011 - new paper out: optimal inference explains the perceptual coherence of visual motion stimuli, james hedges/alan stocker/eero simoncelli, journal of vision 11(6):14, may 2011
- 01/12/2011 - xuexin wei is joining the lab for a rotation project. he will be working on perceptual adaptation. welcome!