Specifically he is interested in the effect that adaptation of photoreceptors has on the perception of color. He hopes to apply the knowledge gained in such studies to the understanding of color vision in higher organisms such as stickleback fish. Steve Shimosaki is a postdoctoral research fellow working with Professor Miguel Eckstein . Sibylle Steck Sibylle Steck is a postdoctoral fellow working with Professor Jack Loomis . She will be studying spatial knowledge derived from visual, vestibular and proprioceptive information, especially in virtual environments.
Issues involved are navigation, path integration, localization and cognitive mapping.
David Waller David is a recent graduate of the University of Washington where he studied psychological issues associated with the use of virtual environments for training. Much of his research has focused on the role of individual differences in the ability to acquire and use spatial information from desktop virtual environments. While at UCSB, David will be working with Professors Jack Loomis and Mary Hegarty , as well as Reginald Golledge and Dan Montello in the Geography department. After my return to Germany I plan to join a Ph.D. program in the area of Cognitive Science. I learned a lot about Cognitive Psychology during my work as Research Assistant in the department of Social Psychology at Bonn from 1996 until 1998.