Date: Mon, 25 Nov 1996 23:29:39 GMT Server: NCSA/1.4.2 Content-type: text/html Last-modified: Thu, 27 Jun 1996 17:26:08 GMT Content-length: 2531 Constance Royden Home Page

Name: Stanzi Royden

Department: Computer Science

Title: Postdoctoral Fellow

Office: 104 Science Center

Extension: X2743

Education: PhD, Neuroscience, UCSF, 1988; B.S. Biology and Engineering, Caltech, 1980.

Interests: Computational modeling and psychophysics of human visual system. Motion perception.

Teaching Interests and Activities:

I am not currently teaching courses. However, I am interested in teaching and I would like to teach courses in vision, neuroscience and cognitive science.

Research Interests and Activities:

I combine psychophysical experiments with computational modeling to study how the brain processes visual information, particularly motion information. I am currently working with Ellen Hildreth, studying how people judge their heading in the presence of moving objects in a scene. I use a computer controlled display to simulate observer motion through an environment containing one or more moving objects. I am testing the conditions under which the presence of a moving objects affects observer's abilities to accurately judge heading. I am concurrently analyzing the effects these moving objects would have on various computational models for computing heading from visual information.

Student Projects:

I have supervised several students working in our lab. Last year, two research assistants worked with me studying the problem of heading in the presence of moving objects (see above). They participated in running experiments and analyzing the data. This year, Ellen Hildreth and I are working with a student who is looking at how attention is involved in judging heading. This student will also participate in a project designed to study how well people judge time to collision with an approaching object.

Additional Interests and Activities:

I enjoy music, dancing and drama. I also have a black belt in Aikido Yoshinkai.


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