We are happy to announce that Oakyoon Cha, who worked as a postdoc for 3 years in the OPLab as well as with Randolph Blake at Vanderbilt, has been offered a faculty position at Sungshin Women’s University, In Seoul, South Korea, starting in March 2021.
These are the OPL presentations at VSS this year:
Cha, O., Blake, R., & Gauthier, I. (2020) Judgments of average and variance within object ensembles rely on a common ability. Poster at V-VSS.
Chow, J., Palmeri, T., & Gauthier, I. (2020). Tactile object recognition performance on graspable objects, but not texture-like objects, relates to visual object recognition ability. Poster at V-VSS.
Gauthier, I., Sunday, M.A., Tomarken, A.J. & Cho, S.J. (2020). o is the same for familiar and novel objects. Poster at V-VSS.
Sun, J. & Gauthier, I. (2020). Car expertise does not compete with face expertise during ensemble coding. Poster at V-VSS.
File that includes all posters
Mackenzie Sunday will start at Google in December as a “quantitative user experience research on Google Cloud” – Congrats Mackenzie!!
Isabel offsets her travel through https://www.cooleffect.org/. It makes it easy to calculate the carbon footprint of a trip, and it is cheaper than you would think to make a contribution to one of several good projects that can make a difference. More than anything, it keeps you aware of your impact. If you choose to try it, let your colleagues know (e.g., put a note on your title slide, “carbon offsets for this trip contributed through…”
Isabel Gauthier and Tom Palmeri are Co-PIs on a 2 years grant awarded by the NEA to study “whether visual art training can enhance visual perception and visual cognition”, in collaboration with Russell Davidson from the Albright-Knox Museum in Buffalo, NY.
Mackenzie Sunday became Dr. Sunday on May 3rd, 2019!
The lab just began work on our new NSF award “Replication of cortical microstructure correlations with face and object recognition” to advance our understanding of how the cortical microstructure of visual areas relates to individual differences in visual abilities.
Upon defending her thesis, Mackenzie Sunday will be doing a user experience research internship at the Google offices in Mountain View for 14 weeks.
Congrats Mackenzie, hope you have tons of fun!
Rankin McGugin (Co-investigators: Carissa Cascio, Allen Newton, Andrew Tomarken, Isabel Gauthier) has received an award in the amount of $17,130 from the Vanderbilt Institute for Clinical Translational Research to facilitate research on the Structural Correlates of Behavior in Autism Spectrum Disorder. The study will investigate the relation between the thickness of different cortical layers in the the Fusiform Face Area (FFA) and face and object recognition abilities.