http://persci.mit.edu/ Wed, 21 Oct 2009 15:54:56 -0400 FeedCreator 1.7.2-ppt DokuWiki http://persci.mit.edu/lib/images/favicon.ico http://persci.mit.edu/ http://persci.mit.edu/research/visualstatistician?rev=1256068008&do=diff In studying the workings of the visual system, we are often faced with quite complicated and seemingly messy empirical results from behavioral experiments. For instance, it is easier (against a neutral gray background) to search for a red target among pink distracting element, than vice versa. Is this because the brain has detectors that respond strongly to red and not pink, but no detectors that respond more strongly to pink than red? One of our key tasks as researchers is to ask whether the… Ruth Rosenholtz research Tue, 20 Oct 2009 15:46:48 -0400 http://persci.mit.edu/people/rosenholtz?rev=1256067786&do=diff The principle of science, the definition, almost, is the following: The test of all knowledge is experiment. Experiment is the sole judge of scientific “truth.” But what is the source of knowledge? Where do the laws that are to be tested come from? Experiment, itself, helps to produce these laws, in the sense that it gives us hints. But also needed is imagination to create from these hints the great generalizations—to guess at the wonderful, simple, but very strange patterns beneath them all, … Ruth Rosenholtz people Tue, 20 Oct 2009 15:43:06 -0400 http://persci.mit.edu/research/texture?rev=1256066818&do=diff In the past, texture perception has largely been studied because changes in texture can signal either a boundary between objects (texture segmentation) or a change in orientation of a surface (shape from texture). While we have studied these problems, we also believe that texture perception gives us insight into a broader class of visual phenomena, including visual crowding, visual search, object recognition, and set perception. Ruth Rosenholtz research Tue, 20 Oct 2009 15:26:58 -0400 http://persci.mit.edu/research?rev=1256065873&do=diff Founded in 1994, the Perceptual Science Group of the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT does research in human visual perception, machine vision, image processing, and human-computer interaction. Both the Adelson Lab and the Rosenholtz Lab are located in Building 46. Ruth Rosenholtz Tue, 20 Oct 2009 15:11:13 -0400 http://persci.mit.edu/people/xuetao_zhang?rev=1253717015&do=diff John Canfield people Wed, 23 Sep 2009 10:43:35 -0400 http://persci.mit.edu/people/fcole?rev=1253715967&do=diff Forrester Cole people Wed, 23 Sep 2009 10:26:07 -0400 http://persci.mit.edu/people/canfield?rev=1253642569&do=diff John Canfield people Tue, 22 Sep 2009 14:02:49 -0400