Prospective Graduate Students:
We will be taking graduate students, through Psychology and/or Neuroscience, next year. (Students can apply to both.) Feel free to contact Irving Biederman about the possibilities for graduate study.
How good are you in recognizing faces?
Take these short (5-20 min), fun, web-based tests which assess your ability to recognize faces.
Go to:
Celebrity Face Recognition Tests
How good are you in recognizing voices?
Take this short (~30 min), fun, web-based test which assesses your ability to recognize voices from celebrities that are familiar to you.
Go to:
Celebrity Voice Recognition Test
Interested in participating in our studies?
Follow the link below and fill out the form to express your interest in ongoing and future studies.
Go to: Study Sign Up Form
The core mission of the Image Understanding Laboratory is to understand how we get mind from brain. We concentrate on how a scene, object,
or face can be recognized in a fraction of a second, even when we have never encountered that image previously. Another line of research focuses
on the neural basis of perceptual and cognitive pleasure, based on a gradient of opioid receptors in the same pathway by which image understanding
is achieved.
We employ a variety of methodologies, such as neuroimaging, psychophysics, research with patients, cross-cultural investigations, and,
in collaboration, single unit recording in primates and behavioral studies with pigeons. For our neuroimaging research, we are fortunate
to have access to the Siemens 3T Trio scanner at the Dana and David Cognitive Neuroscience Imaging Center, just a few steps from the lab.
In this facility we can do simultaneous fMRI and EEG recording.
Contact us:
University of Southern California,
Hedco Neurosciences Building, Rm. 316
3641 Watt Way
Los Angeles, CA 90089-2520
Laboratory Director: Professor Irving Biederman
bieder@usc.edu
(213) 740-6094 (Office and Fax)
(213) 740-6102 (Lab)
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