Michael Tarr
- Professor of Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences
- Fox Professor of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences
- Co-Director, Brown Center for Vision Research
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FedEx/UPS: 190 Thayer Street
Box 1978
Providence, RI 02912
FedEx/UPS: 190 Thayer Street
Box 1978
Providence, RI 02912
Email:
Michael_Tarr@brown.edu
Phone:
(401) 863-1148
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







