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Michael J. Tarr
Fox Professor of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences / Professor of Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences
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Department of Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences 190 Thayer Street Providence, RI 02912 office: Metcalf Research 229 3/4 tel: 401.863.1148 email: Michael_Tarr AT brown.edu Official Brown Page
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Research Interests
- Object and face representation and recognition
- Perceptual categorization, learning, and expertise
- How cognitive and perceptual knowledge interact
- The role of surface properties in object perception and recognition
- Visual navigation and scene representation in virtual environments
Research Methods
- Computer graphics psychophysics
- functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI)
- Event related potentials (ERP)
- Neuropsychology of brain-injured subjects
- Computational modeling and simulation
- Virtual reality
- Neurophysiology (collaboratively only)
Hobbies
Here are some pictures of my friends and relatives that I particularly like:
Congrats to Jessie and Nigel!