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Visual Perception

Affiliated Faculty

photo of Tiago Siebert Altavini
photo of Tiago Siebert Altavini
Core Faculty

Tiago Siebert Altavini

Lecturer in the Discipline, Department of Psychology

Research Interests

Perception
Visual Perception
Top-Down Effects on Perception

Affiliated Graduate Students

photo of Chi Zhang

Chi Zhang

PhD Student

Research Interests

Cognitive Computational Neuroscience, Visual Perception, artificial intelligence
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