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Lawrence Cormack, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Psychology
Email: cormack@psy.utexas.edu
Phone: 471-5380 Lab: 471-5342
Office: SEA 4.228 Lab: SEA 4.330 - 4.340
See also Center for Perceptual Systems, Cognition, Perceptual Systems
Larry Cormack received his Ph.D. in Physiological Optics from the University of California, Berkeley in 1992 and joined the Department of Psychology at the University of Texas. He is also an active member of the Institute for Neuroscience and the Center for Perceptual Systems, and an Adjuct Associate Professor of Vision Science at the University of Houston.
Historically, Dr. Cormack's research interest has been in contrast processing in stereoscopic vision, which is a good model system in which to study how the brain combines signals in general. Recently, he and Scott Stevenson (of the University of Houston) have been explicitly generalizing models of contrast processing in stereopsis to the domains of spatial vision and motion perception. Dr. Cormack is also exploring some properties of motion perception via a novel illusion discovered in his laboratory. Recently however, Dr. Cormack, in collaboration with fellow CPS member Alan Bovik, has been investigating the image properties that attract gaze when viewing natural scenes and when searching for targets imbedded in naturalistic noise.
Dr. Cormack teaches mostly graduate statistics, and an advanced undergraduate statistics course.
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