In my spare time, I studied a fast, compact style of Chinese Gong Fu called Wing-Chun. Spending time on the West Coast also let me brush up on a Yang-Style Tai Chi form I had previously studied in China. In the Fall of 2000, I arrived at the Princeton Psychology Department and the Center for the Study of Brain Mind, and Behavior to begin my work as an Assistant Professor. I was very excited to witness the arrival of the 3T fMRI scanner in Green Hall. We're the first Psychology Department to house a MRI facility.
Most people intuitively think that human vision works like a camera.
Thus, the nature of human vision remains a mystery. Somehow, the brain takes in all this information and interprets or imposes these perceptual attributes. My lab conducts fMRI and behavioral studies of visual perception, attention, and awareness. Some topics include face perception, object recognition, binocular rivalry, perceptual masking, and the neural correlates of visual awareness. The goal of this research is to understand how visual representations in the human brain allow us to consciously perceive and recognize objects.