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Steven K. Shevell is the Eliakim Hastings Moore Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Chicago. He focuses on human vision, particularly color vision, and mathematical psychology. He has held positions including director of the University's Institute for Mind and Biology, from 2014 to 2020. Shevell has a strong academic background with undergraduate degrees in psychology and an M.S. in engineering from Stanford University, and a Ph.D. in mathematical psychology from the University of Michigan. He has made significant contributions to the field through various publications, including serving as founding associate editor for the Journal of Vision and senior editor for Vision Research. His research interests span topics such as neural representations of perceptual color experience, visual neural representations amid uncertainty, and decoding chromaticity and luminance patterns from EEG activity. His courses include Neuroscience Seeing, Sensation Perception, and Experimental Design & II, aimed at both undergraduate and graduate students.
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