Hongjing Lu

Jeroen J. A. van Boxtel

I have a broad range of scientific interests. I previously worked on binocular rivalry, action-perception interactions, and motion perception. Recently I have focussed on the interaction between attention and consciousness. These previous endeavors still have my interest, but now I like to extend my research to biological motion and action perception. I am trying to find out if there is something 'special' about biological motion as compared to non-biological motion, and if there is, what components of biological motion make it special? <webpage>

Steven Thurman

I am currently a Post-Doc in Dr. Hongjing Lu's Laboratory at UCLA. I received a Bachelor's degree from UCSD in 2006 and a PhD from UCI in 2011 studying Psychology (with a concentration in Cognitive Neuroscience). The focus of my research has been human visual perception, and specifically motion perception. Even more specifically I study the perception of other moving humans, or "biological motion" as we call it in the field. Humans are quite adept at perceiving complex human actions, even when the human body is represented sparsely by dots (aka "point-lights") located on the major joints of the body (ankles, knees...etc.). My PhD thesis centered on investigating the relative roles that motion and form-based computational analyses play in the perceptual construction of human action from these sparse point-light displays. I am currently still interested in furthering this line of research, as well as developing new behavioral and statistical methods to investigate perceptual processes such as biological motion. Finally, we plan to develop a quantitative model of human action perception using Bayesian probabilistic methods.

Alan Lee

My research mainly focuses on understanding human vision, particularly motion perception, through psychophysical experiments and statistical/computational models. I am also interested in computational accounts for other high-level cognitive functions such as learning, reasoning and attention. <webpage>

Junzhu Su

Previously, I majored in visual perception during my master degree at Peking University, focusing on the nerual mechanisms of perceptual learning of face views and face genders. Now, I am quite interested in human action cognition (specifically, with biological motion stimuli). I would like to investigate topics such as action categories, action prediction, and interaction between action and attention or awareness using psychophysics methods. I am also fascinated about other human high level cognitive functions such as decision making or complex reasoning using imaging techniques and quantitative modeling.

Janice Lau; Michael Finch; Kimson Nguyen; Steven Gomedi; Nikola Lazovich; Matthew Weiden; Timothy Tanaka; Shawna Kim; Jonny Chan; Nora Hamadan; Thach Nguyen; Jennifer Chng

Xuming He

Shuang Wu

Randall R. Rojas

Jonny Sze Chun Chan

Matt Weiden