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B.S., Carnegie Mellon, 1987
Ph.D., Indiana University, 1995

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Thomas Palmeri

Associate Professor of Psychology
Co Director of Scientific Computing

Palmeri's laboratory studies how people visually categorize, identify, and recognize objects. They examine how objects are processed and represented by the visual system, how visual knowledge about objects is represented and learned, and how perceptual decisions about objects are made. They are particularly interested in the temporal dynamics of visual object recognition. That includes the short-term dynamics of an individual decision about an object's category or identity and the long-term dynamics of how those decisions change with learning and perceptual expertise. His laboratory approaches these questions using a combination of behavioral experiments, cognitive neuroscience techniques, and computational and neural modeling.

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5/29/2012 at 12:00 pm
Dissertation Defense

316 Wilson Hall

 
Katy Thakkar (Park Lab)
Tuesday, May 29th, 2012
12:00pm
316 Wilson Hall

"Inhibition and Monitoring of Saccadic Eye Movements in Schizophrenia"

5/30/2012 at 7:00 pm
Dissertation Defense

316 Wilson Hall

 
Mary Baldwin (Kaas Lab)
Wednesday, May 30th, 2012
7:00pm
316 Wilson Hall

"Connections of the Superior Colliculus with Visual Brain Structures in Galagos, Tree Shrews, and Gray Squirrels"

10/11/2012 at 4:00 pm
Psychological Sciences Colloquium Series

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Matthew Nock, Ph.D.
Harvard University
Thursday October 11, 2012
4:00pm

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11/1/2012 at 4:00 pm
Psychological Sciences Colloquium Series

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Anthony Wagner, Ph.D.
Stanford University
Thursday November 1st, 2012
4:00pm


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