Associate Professor in Psychology and Ophthalmology & Visual Sc
Phone: (502) 852-5955
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From: Ed Essock
Associate Professor in Psychology and Ophthalmology & Visual Sc
Phone: (502) 852-5955
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GRADUATE ASSISTANTSHIPS AVAILABLE IN NEW PROGRAM IN VISION
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Your help in passing along this information to any prospective
vision graduate students would be greatly appreciated.
We have recently expanded our vision specialty within the
Experimental Psychology Ph.D. program at the University of
Louisville. With a strong commitment from the University, we have
added several faculty in vision research and have recently obtained
several Research Assistantship funding slots for students wishing
to specialize in vision research. These assistantships (full
tuition and stipend) are available NOW for Fall 95 and we expect to
fill them over the next two months. Please have interested
students contact any of the faculty listed below for more
information, or send requests for brochures and application
information to: Area Coordinator--Perception and Sensory
Physiology, Department of Psychology, University of Louisville,
Louisville KY 40292 (502-852-6031). An overview of our program
follows this announcement to assist interested students.
Thank you very much for your help.
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OVERVIEW OF PROGRAM
Our specialty area in vision consists of the faculty listed
below. Additional faculty in other specialty areas of our
department contribute to coursework, collaborative research and
training. The University of Louisville has a large, active vision
research community with numerous colloquia, research collaboration,
student groups and courses available to students across
departments. Numerous vision scientists are based in other
departments such as Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences and
Anatomical Sciences and Neurobiology. The nearby Kentucky Lions
Eye Research Institute is a major research facility that
compliments our research emphasis on visual function and offers the
student opportunities to engage in collaboration in clinical vision
research or eye research.
RESEARCH AND TRAINING
Research of the faculty in our specialty area extends from high-
level vision and visual cognition to single-unit and neuro-
anatomical assessment. Research includes topics such as visual
attention and eye movements in surface perception, the role of
ON/OFF channels in spatial and chromatic vision, development of
parallel visual channels, disruption of visual abilities associated
with specific neural losses in glaucoma, and retinal
transplantation.
Training is available in a wide variety of laboratory
techniques including human psychophysics (basic and clinical),
animal psychophysics, electrophysiology (single-unit, human and
animal ERGs and EPs, eye movements), neuroanatomy, neurochemistry,
and clinical ocular assessment (retinal topographic imaging and
nerve fiber layer analysis).
PROGRAM FACULTY
Paul J. DeMarco, Jr. (PDEMARC@bsd.meddean.luc.edu) Visual
electrophysiology and psychophysics; Parallel visual pathways;
Neurovisual disorders.
Edward A. Essock (EAESSO01@ULKYVM.louisville.edu) Spatial vision;
clinical psychophysics and nerve fiber layer imaging.
Zijiang He (Z0HE0002@ULKYVM.louisville.edu) Visual
perception and visual cognition; Eye movements.
Heywood M. Petry (HMPETR01@ULKYVM.louisville.edu) Neural
mechanisms of vision; Photoreceptor function; Color vision; Visual
development.
John B. Thurmond (JBTHUR01@ULKYVM.louisville.edu) Visual form
perception; Perception of subjective contour and occluded shapes.
THE CITY OF LOUISVILLE
Louisville, the largest city in Kentucky, is located at the Falls
of the Ohio River. From the Kentucky Derby to the Kentucky Center
for the Arts, Louisville offers cultural, recreational and sports
opportunities to rival cities three times its size. Yet nearly 1
million residents of the metropolitan area enjoy a small-town
friendliness that contributed to its recently being ranked as the
eighth "most livable" city in the U.S. by the Rand McNally Places
Rated Almanac.
THE UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE
The University has approximately 18,000 undergraduate students and
5,000 graduate and professional students enrolled in advanced
degree programs in the College of Arts & Sciences and the Schools
of Medicine, Dentistry, Law, Business, Allied Health, Education,
Music, Nursing and Speed Scientific School of Engineering. The
Department of Psychology is located three miles south of downtown
Louisville on the main campus, which offers 140 acres of tree-lined
walkways and lawns.