The Shevell Visual Science Lab is headed by Professor Steven Shevell in the Departments of Psychology and Ophthalmology & Visual Science at the University of Chicago. We investigate processes of the eye and brain that serve vision. Our research focuses primarily on visual pathways that mediate color and brightness perception.
News
Lab Member Updates
August 2022: Doctoral candidates Jaelyn Peiso and Ryan Lange have both successfully defended their doctoral dissertation. Congratulations to now Dr. Jaelyn Peiso and Dr. Ryan Lange!
July 2021: Doctoral candidate Emily Slezak successfully defended her doctoral dissertation. Congratulations to now Dr. Emily Slezek!
May 2021: Doctoral candidate Ryan Lange received the John Dewey Prize Lectureship for 2020/21
May 2019: Doctoral candidate Emily Slezak received the John Dewey Prize Lectureship for 2019/20
Recent Publications
Steven K. Shevell with Jan W. Brascamp (2021). “The Certainty of Ambiguity in Visual Neural Representations” in Annual Review of Vision Science
Andrew J. Coia, Vincent Sun, and Steven K. Shevell with David Sutterer and Ed Awh (2021). “Decoding chromaticity and luminance from patterns of EEG activity” in Psychophysiology
Bobicheng Zhang, Emily Slezak, Wei Wang, and Steven K. Shevell (2021). “Bioncularly-driven competing neural responses and the perceptual resolution of color” in Journal of Vision
Emily Slezak and Steven K. Shevell (2020). “Grouping ambiguous neural representations: neither identical chromaticity (the stimulus) nor color (the percept) is necessary” in Journal of the Optical Society of America A
Ryan Lange and Steven K. Shevell (2020). “Does feature integration affect resolution of multiple simultaneous forms of ambiguity?” in Journal of the Optical Society of America A
Jaelyn R. Peiso and Steven K. Shevell (2020). “Seeing fruit on trees: enhanced perceptual dissimilarity from multiple ambiguous neural representations.” in Journal of the Optical Society of America A
Sang Wook Hong and Steven K. Shevell with Insub Kim and Won Mok Shim (2020). “Neural representations of perceptual color experience in the human ventral visual pathway.” in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Recent Research Presentations
July, 2022: Doctoral candidate Jaelyn Peiso presented “The Resolution of Ambiguous Neural Representations: The Role of Chromatic Contrast” at the 26th Symposium of the International Colour Vision Society
July, 2022: Doctoral candidate Ryan Lange presented “Chromatic Object-Substitution Masking (OSM) Does Not Follow the Target-Flanker Similarity Hypothesis” at the 26th Symposium of the International Colour Vision Society
May, 2022: Doctoral candidate Sunny Lee presented a talk titled “Color-motion feature misbinding with optic-flow versus vertical motion” at the Vision Sciences Society Annual Meeting
May, 2022: Director Steven Shevell presented work with Emily Slezak in a talk titled “Do identical percepts from multiple ambiguous neural representations depend on the suppressed competing representations?” at the Vision Sciences Society Annual Meeting
May, 2022: Doctoral candidate Ryan Lange presented a poster titled “Object-substitution masking disrupts feature processing for color and tilt” at the Vision Sciences Society Annual Meeting
May, 2020: Doctoral candidate Emily Slezak presented “Grouping dichoptically-produced plaids: Ruling out changes in interocular suppression as an explanation” at the Virtual Vision Sciences Society Annual Meeting
May, 2020:Research associate Xiaohua Zhuang presented “Plaid from orthogonal rivalrous gratings: Binocular resolution of competing neural representations” at the Virtual Vision Sciences Society Annual Meeting