May 7 at 3 pm | Guest Lecture by Dr. Shin Shimojo of Caltech
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Wednesday, May 7 at 3 pm | Presented by Shin Shimojo, PhD
Located at HMRI
686 S. Fair Oaks Ave, Pasadena, CA 91105
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Shin Shimojo, PhD
Gertrude Baltimore Professor of Experimental Psychology
California Institute of Technology (Caltech)
On Wednesday, May 7, at 3 pm, Dr. Shimojo will present a lecture at HMRI:
TITLE OF LECTURE - TBD
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Shin Shimojo, PhD is the Gertrude Baltimore Professor of Experimental Psychology at the California Institute of Technology and principal investigator of the Shimojo Psychophysics Laboratory. Dr. Shimojo received his BA from the University of Tokyo in 1978 and MA in 1980. He earned his PhD from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1985. Dr. Shimojo became an associate professor at Caltech in 1987, a professor from 1999 to 2010, and was appointed Baltimore Professor in 2010.
The Shimojo Psychophysics Laboratory is one of the few laboratories on the campus of the California Institute of Technology which exclusively concentrates on the study of perception, cognition, and action in humans. Our lab employs psychophysical paradigms and a variety of recording techniques such as eye-tracking, functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), electroencephalogram (EEG), as well as, brain stimulation techniques such as transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS), and recently ultrasound neuromodulation (UNM). We try to bridge the gap between cognitive and neurosciences. We would like to understand how the brain adapts real-world constraints to resolve perceptual ambiguity and to reach ecologically valid, unique solutions. In addition to our continuing interest in surface representation, motion perception, attention, and action, we also focus on crossmodal integration (including VR environments), visual preference/attractiveness decision, social brain, flow and choke in the game-playing brains, individual differences related to “neural, dynamic fingerprint” of the brain.