Laboratory of Psychology

The Laboratory of Psychology, specifically the Laboratory of Psychophysics, focuses on investigating visual information processing in human observers using psychophysical methods, TMS, EEG, and mathematical modeling. Research areas include feature integration, contextual modulation, time course of information processing, and perceptual learning. Clinical studies explore deficits in visual information processing in schizophrenic patients. The lab also collaborates with material scientists to study how expert and novice sportsmen judge new materials and the cognitive skills crucial for sports performance. Their work on crowding and masking challenges traditional hierarchical processing models, showing that object recognition difficulties arise when objects are embedded in clutter, and that only nearby elements interfere with each other.