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Dr. Lynn A. Olzak
Associate Professor of Psychology |
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| University Affiliations Education Ph. D., 1981 University of California, Los Angeles Links Personal Web Page |
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A. Olzak, Ph. D.Department of Psychology 206B Benton Hall Miami University Oxford, Ohio 45056 (513) 529-1754 (voice) (513) 529-2420 (fax) olzakla@muohio.edu (e-mail)
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Research
Interests
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| Identifying and psychophysically describing systems of cortical neurons and neural mechanisms that underlie basic visual processes. My interests focus on the perception of brightness, color, and patterns, and on mechanisms underlying figure-ground segregation. I use computer-generated images to measure normal human performance in a visual task. Changes in performance under different conditions permit inferences about the underlying neural mechanisms, from which I develop quantitative models of these mechanisms and processes. I have recently described a model of two families of specialized neural pathways. One is tailored to signal information about object borders and may be involved in shape recognition. The other signals information about the contrast and coarseness of surface textures. Both may be involved in scene segregation. I am currently exploring the properties of these and other mid-level cortical processes. | |
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Representative
Publications
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Olzak, L. A. and Thomas, J. P. (2003) Dual nonlinearities regulate contrast sensitivity in pattern discrimination tasks. Vision Research, 43 (13), 1433-1442 . |
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Updated on Thursday 18 March 2004, © Dept. of Psychology, all rights reserved.
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