Human Information Processing Laboratory (HIPLab)

Welcome to the Human Information Processing Laboratory in the Department of Cognitive Sciences and Institute for Mathematical Behavioral Science at the University of California, Irvine (UCI).

Fields of Research

Empirical studies of human information processing, visual memory systems, attention, visual perception.
Mathematical, computational, and neural models of visual processes: light adaptation, temporal sensitivity, contrast detection, motion and texture perception, stereopsis, attention, short-term memory systems.
Brain imaging: EEG, MEG, fMRI.

Personnel

George Sperling, Professor
Lauren Haines , Administrative Assistant
Peng Sun , Postdoctoral Fellow
Robert Lichtman, , Graduate Student
Howard Yang, , Graduate Student
Arvin Hsu , Graduate Student (on leave)

Associated Faculty

Charles Chubb , Professor, UCI
Zhong-Lin Lu , Professor, OSU
Ramesh Srinivasan , Assistant Professor, UCI

Recent PhDs

Erik Blaser, Associate Professor, Psychology Department, University of Massachusetts
Ching (Elizabeth) Ho , NVIDIA Corporation
Joetta Gobell , Nissan Corporation, Gardenia, CA
Chia-huei Tseng , Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Hong Kong
Greg Appelbaum , Post-Doctoral Fellow, Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, Duke University, Durham, NC
Stefanie Wong Drew Cal State Northridge
Ling Lin , AcuFocus Inc
Dantian Liu , Chi Acupuncture
Son-Hee Lyu
I. Scofield , Cal State Fullerton

Recent Postdocs

Hyungjun Kim Research Associate, McGill University, Montreal, CA
Nong Sang Associate Professor, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei 430074 China
Tae-Seong Kim Assistant Professor Department of Biomedical Engineering Kyung Hee University Republic of Korea
Jian Ding , Associate Researcher, University of California, Berkeley

Psychology 269 Special Topics in Human Performance.

SocSci H1G. Critical Issues in the Social Sciences. (Subunit on Perception, Attention, Short-Term Memory)

Attention Seminar. Psychology 229, Special Topics in Human Cognition (4).

Mathematical Psychology Workshop, July, 1997.

Matlab

Demos, Talks, Photos

Photos

To download the following Powerpoint .ppt files, bring up a menu as follows: On PC (dual mouse), right-click; on Macintosh, ctrl-click.

Sperling, FVM, 2002. Tillyer Award Lecture. The Intertwined Mechanisms of Motion Perception and Attention.

Tseng, Gobell & Sperling, VSS 2003. Attentional sensitization to color.

Local Attractions

Mount Baldy, March 18, 2003

George skiing Cornice Bowl at Mammoth, 2008.01.01

Other Relevant WWW Sites

Department of Cognitive Sciences

Department of Neurobiology and Behavior

Institute for Mathematical Behavioral Sciences

UC Irvine School of Social Sciences

Vision Sciences Society

Optical Society of America

Jeffrey Epstein’s Profiles in Science

Note: This document uses Netscape extensions to HTML. The image at the top is similar to Fig. 4b in Chubb, C. & Sperling, G. (1988). Drift-balanced random stimuli: A general basis for studying non-Fourier motion perception. Journal of the Optical Society of America A: Optics and Image Science, 1988, 5, 1986-2006. When the ordinate is taken as time, and the abscissa as the x-value of a one-dimensional stimulus, the figure represents time-slices of a drift-balanced motion stimulus. Alternatively, taking the coordinates as x,y, the figure represents a slant-balanced texture stimulus.