How Experience Shapes Vision

Michael J. Tarr received his PhD from M.I.T. in 1989. He is currently the Fox Professor of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences and a Professor of Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences at Brown University. He is the recipient of the 1997 APA Distinguished Scientific Award for Early Career Contribution to Psychology in the Area of Cognition/Human Learning and the 2003 Troland Research Award from the National Academy of Sciences. His research focuses on human visual processing and cognition using a wide variety of methodologies. More information about his lab, as well as downloadable stimuli such as the Greebles, is available at http://www.tarrlab.org

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