Haberman LabLab news
Four of our lab students traveled to VSS, a wonderful way to cap off my time at Rhodes. Eli Schwartz presented his work on the ensemble perception of illusory contours, Mikayla Shirley presented her individual differences work, and Logan Wu and Superstar Lab Manager Jess Huang presented their work on adaptation to realism. We celebrated the trip with a kayaking excursion into some backwater keys. Congratulations, y’all!
This seminar was a tribute to my time and the people at Rhodes. Thank you for 12 incredible, formative years.
Two of our lab members, Eli Schwartz and Logan Wu, received VSS travel awards! Way to go, y’all!
BIG UPDATE. I am thrilled to announce that I have accepted a faculty position at Union College in Schenectady, NY. It has been an incredible 12 years at Rhodes, having enjoyed a wealth of both professional and personal fulfillment. I will dearly miss this place AND my family and I are ready for a new adventure. Much love to Rhodes and the broader Memphis community.
Our work exploring the ensemble perception of visual scenes was accepted for publication in the Journal of Vision. Check out our paper with Vignash Tharmaratnam as first author and Jon Cant as senior author.
As the co-director of Postgraduate Scholarships at Rhodes, we have the opportunity to celebrate our students’ successes as they earn various competitive awards. This year, Rhodes was selected as a Top Producing Fulbright Institution, and I was interviewed by local media about the distinction. Credit goes to our amazing students, as well as my predecessors in this position, Esen Kirdis and Jason Richards, who guided these students on their journey toward becoming Fulbrighters.
Served on a dissertation defense as ‘Opponent 1’ for a Ph.D. student graduating from the University of Iceland. What a joy and privilege it was to attend!
Our manuscript, ‘A reflection on faces seen in mirror reversal,’ was accepted for publication in the journal Perception. This work includes two undergraduate student co-authors and long-time collaborator, Jordan Suchow, at Stevens Institute of Technology.
Back at VSS for the first time since 2019! We brought four students this year, three of whom presented their own work! Jessica Myat was accepted to Vanderbilt for a Ph.D. in neuroscience. She also won the Hunter Award, an endowed award for neuroscience majors at Rhodes going to graduate school.
Sheida Domabi presented her work, ‘Emotional Judgment does not depend on perceived gender,’ at VSS as a poster. I was unable to attend VSS (again) this year — we just welcomed baby #2.
Ava Mitra presented her work, ‘High fidelity average orientation representation maintained across multiple time scales,’ at VSS as a poster. Ava Mitra received a VSS undergraduate travel award!
Former lab member, Malerie McDowell, had her paper, ‘The Frozen Effect: Objects in motion are more aesthetically appealing than objects frozen in time,’ accepted to the journal PLOS ONE. Congratulations! Jason Haberman was awarded one of the National Eye Institute’s Early Career Travel Awards.
Former lab member, Lauren Ulrich, had her paper, ‘Precise ensemble face representation given incomplete visual input,’ accepted to the journal i-Perception! Way to go! Former lab member, Hayden Schill, begins her Ph.D. work at UCSD with Tim Brady! Congratulations to our graduating seniors, Sam and Emma! Our lab had a successful VSS outing in St. Pete’s Beach, FL! Five students each presented their own posters. Emma ZeeAbrahamsen had her paper, ‘Correcting confusability regions in face morphs,’ accepted into the journal, Behavior Research Methods! Congratulations, Emma!
Rhodes College hosts the Alliance for Advancement of Liberal Arts Colleges (AALAC) on Vision Science and the Liberal Arts, a funded proposal submitted by Dr. Haberman. Another successful VSS! Six students presented five posters in St. Pete Beach, Florida. Three students will be funded to work in Dr. Haberman’s laboratory during the summer via the Rhodes Neuroscience Fellowship. Dr. Haberman presents research to the National Academy of Sciences’ Standing Committee on Reducing Counterfeiting Using the Behavioral Sciences.
Dr. Haberman collects data at the American Orthotics and Prosthetics Association (AOPA) meeting in Boston, MA, for his project on how humans perceive the size of prosthetic devices.
All lab members presented original posters at Vision Sciences Society in St. Pete’s Beach, FL.
Lauren Ulrich (2016) accepted into physical therapy graduate program at William Carey University. Hayden Schill (2016) accepts a full-time lab management in Jeremy Wolfe’s Visual Attention Laboratory at Harvard’s Brigham & Women’s Hospital. Dr. Haberman accepted into the ERP Bootcamp, a competitive, advanced training workshop that takes place every July at UC Davis. Malerie McDowell (2017) and Sneha Suresh (2019) accepted into the St. Jude Summer Plus Program, a year-long internship that allows students to work closely with scientists at St. Jude’s Children’s Hospital.