Research Areas: Sensation and Perception

Faculty studying sensation and perception are concerned with how information-processing systems, be they biological or artificial, acquire and process sensory data to learn about the world around us. This broad topic is studied for a variety of sensory systems (e.g., Color Vision - Brainard ; Motion Perception - Stocker; Object and scene recognition - Rust, Aguirre, Epstein, Kahana; Audition - Cohen; Time Perception - Sternberg); Speech Perception (Dahan) and using a wide variety of experimental and theoretical approaches (e.g., Psychophysics in Human or Animal Models - Brainard, Dahan, Stocker, Rust, Sternberg, Nachmias, Aguirre, Cohen; Single Unit Recording - Rust, Cohen; Functional Brain Imaging - Epstein, Thompson-Schill, Aguirre; Computational Modeling - Brainard, Stocker, Kahana, Rust, Sternberg).  The study of sensation and perception at Penn is highly integrative, and faculty from a number of disciplines (Psychology, Neuroscience, Engineering, Physics, Philosophy, and Computer Science) interact regularly.

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