The program in Perception, Brain & Behavior at The
University of Texas at Austin is encouraging applications for interdisciplinary
graduate study in vision sciences, with emphasis on naturalistic tasks and
stimuli. Housed in the Department of Psychology, the Institute for
Neuroscience, and the Center for Perceptual Systems, our program is a vibrant,
growing, and highly-collaborative collection of research laboratories boasting
world-class facilities for conducting research in visual perception, visually guided
actions, and the underlying neural mechanisms. These facilities include fMRI,
eye tracking, head and body tracking, face and facial expression tracking,
virtual reality, the collection of 3D time-varying natural scene statistics,
computationally-intensive modeling and computer graphics, psychophysics, 2
photon microscopy, optical imaging, and electrophysiology. Funding
opportunities are available through an NIH training grant, Research
Assistantships, Fellowships, and Teaching Assistantships. Faculty actively
engaging in interdisciplinary research in the program include:
Dana Ballard: computational neuroscience,
machine learning, visuo-motor control
Larry Cormack: natural tasks and
psychophysics; 3D motion perception
Ila Fiete: computational neuroscience, neural
coding
Bill Geisler: vision and natural scene
statistics; computational modeling
Mary Hayhoe: eye movements, attention, virtual
environments.
Alex Huk: sensory-motor decisions, neural
mechanisms of motion and depth perception
Ian Nauhaus: neural coding, cortical
organization, computational neuroscience
Nicholas Priebe: neural coding in early visual
cortex, intracellular recording
Eyal Seidemann: optical imaging and
electrophysiology of early visual cortex
Max Snodderley: retina and early visual
cortex, retinal disease.
More information on our research can be found at www.cps.utexas.edu, and we encourage you to contact
investigators directly if you are interested in their research.
You can apply via the Ph.D. programs in
Neuroscience
http://neuroscience.utexas.edu/program/
512-471-3640, neuroscience@mail.clm.utexas.edu
and Psychology
http://www.psy.utexas.edu/psy/GradProgram/gradhome.html
512-471-6398, gradoffice@psy.utexas.edu