Summary
Dr. w88 bet studies sensory, cognitive and motor function using behavioral methods and neuroimaging (e.g. fMRI). He is particularly interested in the mechanisms by which the human brain interprets sensory information and the influence of prior experience on visual processes underlying object perception, face recognition and reading. Dr. w88 bet is also interested in visual art, aesthetics, visualcommunication in digital media, and the sheer joy of perceptual experience.
Research Interests
- Perceptual organization and form perception
- The neural basis of word recognition and reading
- Object perception and face recognition
- Action, intention and motor control
- Cerebral laterality
- Visual aesthetics
Courses taught
Graduate courses
- PSY 761a - Perceptual organization in human vision
- PSY 761b - Neurophilosophy
- PSY 763a - Vision, language and cerebral laterality
- PSY 763b - Neuroaesthetics
Undergraduate courses
- PSY 499 - Cyberpsychology
- PSY 406 - Perception
- PSY 301 - Experimental psychology
- PSY 210 - Statistical methods
Education
- Ph.D., Psychology, University of Virginia, 2006
- B.S., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1992
Publications
- Chkhaidze, A. and w88 bet, L. (preprint)Language-induced categorical perception of faces?
- Ray,L., Shaw, C., Otto, S., Riviere-Cazaux, C., w88 bet, L., Burns, T. and Khan, M.R. (preprint)MRI-to-Synthetic 3D Gel Brain: Proof-of-Concept Fabrication For Intra-Parenchymal Diffusion Studies.
- Harrison, M. and w88 bet, L. (2021). Does face-selective cortex show a left visual field bias for centrally-viewed faces? Neuropsychologia.
- Harrison, M. and w88 bet, L. (2020). Does right hemisphere superiority sufficiently explain the left visual field advantage in face recognition? Attention, Perception & Psychophysics.
- w88 bet, L. (2019). A neural basis of the serial bottleneck in visual word recognition. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).
- Zhou, Z., Whitney, C. and w88 bet, L. (2019). Embedded word priming elicits enhanced fMRI responses in the visual word form area. PLoS ONE.
- Zhou, Z., Vilis, T. and w88 bet, L. (2019). Functionally separable font-invariant and font-sensitive neural populations in occipitotemporal cortex. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience.
- Nah, J.C., Neppi-Modona, w88 bet, L., Behrmann, M., and Shomstein, S (2018). Object width modulates object-based attention. Attention, Perception & Psychophysics.
- Harrison, M.T. and w88 bet, L. (2018). Visual recognition of mirrored letters and the right hemisphere advantage for mirror-invariant object recognition. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review.
- w88 bet, L., Zhou, Z., Coros, A.M., and Vilis, T. (2017). An fMRI study of visual hemifield integration and cerebral lateralization. Neuropsychologia.
- Erlikhman, G., w88 bet, L., Barzakov, I. and Caplovitz, G.C. (2017). On the legibility of mirror-reflected and rotated text. Symmetry.
- Zhou, Z. and w88 bet, L. (2017). Distinct effects of contour smoothness and observer bias on visual persistence. Journal of Vision.
- Vanston, J.E. and w88 bet, L. (2017). Sex differences in the human visual system. Journal of Neuroscience Research.