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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
Phone: (412) 268-6557

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

for undergraduates


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