Dr. Curtis Baker

Biography

Curtis Baker's lab research aims to achieve a long-term understanding of human visual perception, with a specific focus on low-level neural mechanisms that carry out signal processing relevant to functional everyday life. The lab studies natural scenes in the visual world, which are filled with objects that are delineated by backgrounds, with simple variations in luminance, color, and differences in attributes such as contrast, texture, and motion. A key goal of this research is to understand early visual processing that detects and utilizes rich cues to provide robust perception of "figure-ground" relationships and local depth cues in the real world. The projects in the lab utilize a variety of approaches, including human psychophysics experiments, computational modeling, and neurophysiology data.

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