Miguel Eckstein

CONTACT
Department of Psychology, MC-9660
University of California
Santa Barbara, CA 93106

Tel.: 805-893-2255
Fax: 805-893-4303
Email: eckstein@psych.ucsb.edu
Web site: http://www.psych.ucsb.edu/research/viu/

EDUCATION
Ph.D: 1994, University of California, Los Angeles
B.S.: 1990, University of California, Berkeley

RESEARCH INTERESTS
How does the attention change the way in which our brain processes visual information? What processes mediate human learning in perceptual tasks? How does our brain decide where to direct our eyes when we search for an object in a visual scene? Do the neural mechanisms mediating eye movements and perceptual decisions process visual information in similar manners? I typically study these questions by comparing human performance to that of the optimal Bayesian observer (typically implemented on a computer). I also study the visual, cognitive and decision processes by which doctors detect and classify abnormalities in medical images and use computer models to improve the way in which we display medical images so that doctors can do fewer errors in clinical diagnosis.

CURRENT TEAMS

Cognitive Neuroscience