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Michael Tarr
- Co-Director, Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition
- Professor of Psychology
The Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition
115 Mellon Institute, CMU
4400 Fifth Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
115 Mellon Institute, CMU
4400 Fifth Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
Email:
michaeltarr@cmu.edu
Phone:
(412) 268-6557
Websites:
Biography:
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)
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Courses:
- Independent Study
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for undergraduates
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