Research Interests

• Visual perception 

  • Color vision

  • Figure-ground organization 

  • Surface completion

  • Object and scene recognition

  • Boundary extension

  • Visual illusions and their implications

  • Visual search

  • Constancies related to depth, luminance, and color

  • Perceptual impact of illumination

  • The effect of holistic context

  • The ecological validity of perceptual research

• Eye movements and social gaze

• Attention 

• Human memory systems

  • Visual memory errors and false memories

  • Visual short-term memory (VSTM) & visual working memory (visuospatial sketchpad)

  • Visual long-term memory (VLTM) including encoding and retrieval

• Empirical aesthetics

  • Perception of visual art

  • Universality of visual art

  • Visual art as an evolutionary fitness indicator

See CV for past and present projects...