About
I am a professor of psychology with broad interests
in auditory, visual, and cross-modal perception, psychology of art, and philosophy of mind
(view CV here).
You may think of me as a neo-Gestalt psychologist who uses tools of cognitive
science — experiments using human observers, mathematical analysis
of patterns, and a mathematical modeling of data — to solve some of
the enduring puzzles of perceptual organization. I
teach in the
cognitive area of UVa's
Psychology Department, which has
an excellent group of researchers in perception (see
Denny Proffitt's,
Rachel Keen's, and
Steve Boker's homepages). I look
forward to bright and hard-working graduate and undergraduate
students, from the U.S. and abroad, joining the outstanding group of
people without whom my lab would not be the wonderful and productive
environment it is.
