Tal Tversky

Email

tal@cs.utexas.edu

Snail-Mail

The University of Texas at Austin
Department of Computer Sciences
Taylor 2.124
Austin, TX 78712-1188

Phone

(512)471-9544 (cs)
(512)471-3054 (psy)

Fax

(413)778-8803

 

Research

Motion statistics

I am working on my Ph.D. dissertation with Prof. Bill Geisler in the psychology department on research involving the natural scene statistics of motion (recent paper here). We also have completed a project that examines human perception of open versus closed contours that was recently published in Vision Research (html, pdf)

Research

Modeling directional selectivity

I have an in interest in computational neuroscience and neural networks. I've done a small project modeling of the development of directional selectivity in the visual cortex.

Ultimate

Austin Ultimate

I play a sport called ultimate frisbee in Austin for a team named Doublewide. Here you can find more information about ultimate in Austin.