alexhakkinen's profile

About me

Username:	alexhakkinen
Name:	Alex Hakkinen
Job title:	Researcher
Affiliation:	Visual Attention Lab, Rutgers University Center for Cognitive Science
Web page:	Not specified
Joined:	2008-10-08

What I do

I have a Psychology degree (with coursework in Cognitive Science, Behavioral Science, Neuroscience, Animal Science, and Plant Science) at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, NJ, effectively in a transitional state between undergraduate and graduate study (the folks in my lab classify me as a "Pre-Doc")

I currently work in Dr. Zenon Pylyshyn's Visual Attention Lab at the Rutgers University Center for Cognitive Science, under the auspices of Dr. Deborah Aks, studying Multiple Object Tracking and Visual Indexing.

Interests

I am interested in Visual Cognition, Visual Attention, learning and memory, conditioning, serotonin, anxiety, plant-sourced medicinal compounds, and Psychology, Cognitive Science, Neurobiology, Botany, and Pharmacology in general.

Recent Activity

2009-11-19

19:15: posted Visual cognition: a new look at the two-visual systems model.
19:13: posted The role of depth and 1/f dynamics in perceiving reversible figures.
19:11: posted Influence of exercise on visual search: implications for mediating cognitive mechanisms.
19:10: posted Visual search for size is influenced by a background texture gradient.
19:08: posted Visual search for direction of shading is influenced by apparent depth.
18:57: posted Moon illusion in pictures: a multimechanism approach.
18:56: posted A method to assess the relative contribution of lateral inhibition to the magnitude of visual-geometric illusions.
18:54: posted Indexing and the object concept: developing `what' and `where' systems
17:27: posted Multiple object tracking in people with Williams syndrome and in normally developing children.
17:24: posted Is vision continuous with cognition? The case for cognitive impenetrability of visual perception.
17:22: posted Searching through subsets: a test of the visual indexing hypothesis
17:17: posted Situating vision in the world.
17:05: posted Eye-blinks and Tracking

2009-11-18

2009-11-10

00:22: posted Stimulus–response learning in long-term cocaine users: Acquired equivalence and probabilistic category learning☆

2009-11-09