Perception

About Us Research interests among individual laboratories overlap considerably. We are broadly interested in how we perceive our world and how we respond adaptively to it. This frequently involves uncovering the neural mechanisms that underlie human and other animal’s ability to transform sensory input into a percept. Our Approach Our experimental methods range from behavioral tasks of viewing or listening, neuroimaging methods and multi-electrode intracranial brain recordings in animals and humans, as well as computational modeling that forges connections from brain development and activity to our phenomenal experiences of the world around us. Our Research Research in vision and hearing includes perceptual development, perception of complex sounds, perception of 3D layout and auditory space, attention, value-based decision-making and neural processing of auditory and visual objects and events. The Program Graduate study in Perception at Wisconsin is founded upon our commitment to first-rate scientific research, and is supported by the faculty offering an array of interdisciplinary courses and training. Laboratory facilities are comprehensive, including neuroimaging facilities at the Keck Laboratory for Functional Brain Imaging, a virtual reality environment in the Department, and facilities supporting developmental methods at the Waisman Center. Students are encouraged to take full advantage of many outstanding scholars throughout the University including those in Departments of Anatomy, Communication Disorders, Computer Science, and Physiology.

PERCEPTION FACULTY

Joe Austerweil

Shawn Green visual perception, cognitive neuroscience, cognitive training, learning and learning transfer, effects of technology use on cognitive abilities

Rick Jenison Computational neuroscience; value-based decision-making; functional and effective connectivity in the human brain; point-process modeling of neural ensembles; computational models of the basal ganglia and amygdala.

Gary Lupyan The aim of my primary line of research is to investigate and delineate these extra-communicative functions of language.

Brad Postle short-term memory/working memory; attention; consciousness; fMRI; TMS; EEG

Yuri Saalmann Cognitive control, conscious awareness, brain connectivity, neural dynamics, neural coding

Karen Schloss Visual perception; visual reasoning, color cognition, information visualization, virtual reality; visual aesthetics