This lab is currently inactive.
Dr. Cooper is on leave and is not sponsoring Ph.D. students.

  The Visual Cognition Lab at Columbia University studies human representations and memory for visual objects. Representations of visual objects play an important role in guiding everyday behavior. We focus on two different memory functions that these representations serve. One includes the automatic and unconscious processing which occurs in order to understand and parse the structure of an object. It operates even under conditions of occlusion and in dynamic situations. We label this automatic type of memory implicit memory. The other describes our ability to access the identity of an object which involves recognition of an object's meaning. This we label explicit memory. In our work, we study these distinguishable aspects of memory and how people utilize them when they remember objects. Much of our current work focuses on selective deterioration of these two types of memory functions with age.

• People
  • Director: Lynn A. Cooper, Ph.D., Centennial Professor of Psychology
    
  • Former Research Scientist: John Hilton, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Psychology and Neurology
  • Former Graduate Students
    • Tomislav Pavlicic
    • Anja Soldan
    • Sarah Shuwairi
  • Former Research Assistants
    • Susan Gladstone
    • Alie Giaime
    
    
• Courses
  • Experimental Psychology: Perception and Attention, W 1480/1481
  • Visual Cognition, W4210
  • Methods and Issues in Cognitive Neuroscience, W4415
    
    
• Links
  • For a list of selected publications, click here.
  • Cognitive Neuroscience Society
  • Society for Neuroscience
  • VisionScience
  • Department of Psychology, Columbia University
  • Columbia University

Last modified: 09/16/07