Sensation and Perception

Overview

The study of how our sense organs and brain give rise to conscious experience of the environment. Research in this area tests models of sensory or perceptual processes, including color vision, motion perception, and auditory illusions and paradox.

RESEARCH AREA FACULTY


	Stuart M. Anstis Visual perception, motion perception, auditory and tactual perception, and cross-model integration.

	Diana Deutsch Music perception, auditory illusions.

	Karen R. Dobkins Infant and adult psychophysics, visual development and plasticity.

	David E. Huber Human perception and memory from a broad-based, computational perspective.

	Timothy Q. Gentner Behavioral neurobiology, auditory perception and cognition, animal communication.

	Donald I. A. MacLeod Visual mechanisms in humans.

	Vilayanur S. Ramachandran Cognitive neuroscience, vision, perception, physiological psychology.

	Keith Rayner Psychology of Language, Psychology of Reading, Eye Movements, Scene Perception and Visual Search.

	John Serences Attention and perceptual decision making.