Postdoctoral Fellow

Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience

Office: 422D Wilson Hall
Phone: 615-322-2835
Fax: 615-343-8449
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Degrees

• Ph.D. Rutgers University (2006)
• M.S. Rutgers University (2003)
• B.A. Macalester College (1998)

Research Area

• Human Visual Perception

Current Research

• Neural representations of shapes and objects

Representative Publications

• Cohen, E. H., Singh, M., & Maloney, L.T. (2008). Perceptual segmentation and the perceived orientation of dot clusters: The role of robust statistics. Journal of Vision. 8(7):6, 1-13.
• Cohen, E. H. & Zaidi, Q. (2007). Fundamental failures of shape constancy resulting from cortical anisotropy. Journal of Neuroscience. 27(46), 12540-12545.
• Cohen, E. H. & Singh, M. (2007). Geometric determinants of shape segmentation: Tests using segment identification. Vision Research. 47 (22), 2825-2840.
• Cohen, E. H., Schnitzer, B.S., Gersch, T.M., Singh, M., & Kowler, E. (2007). The relationship between spatial pooling and attention in saccadic and perceptual tasks. Vision Research, 47, 1907-1923.
• Cohen, E. H. & Zaidi, Q. (2007). The oblique effect and three-dimensional shape. Visual Cognition. 15(1), 80-83.
• Cohen, E. H. & Singh, M. (2006). Perceived orientation of complex shape reflects graded part decomposition. Journal of Vision, 6, 805-821.
• Cohen, E. H., Barenholtz, E., Singh, M., & Feldman, J. (2005). What change detection tells us about the visual representation of shape. Journal of Vision, 5(4), 313-321.
• Barenholtz, E., Cohen, E. H., Feldman, J., & Singh, M. (2003). Detection of Change in Shape: An advantage for concavities. Cognition. 89, 1-9.