{"id":3,"date":"2012-11-05T16:08:49","date_gmt":"2012-11-05T16:08:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/joelappin\/homepage\/"},"modified":"2023-06-07T10:50:22","modified_gmt":"2023-06-07T15:50:22","slug":"homepage","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/joelappin\/","title":{"rendered":"Home Page"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><u>Education<\/u><\/em>:\u00a0 B.A., 1962, University of Cincinnati; Ph.D., 1966, University of Illinois, Experimental Psychology<\/p>\n<p><em><u>Faculty Positions<\/u><\/em>: Carnegie Institute of Technology, 1966-1968; Vanderbilt University, 1968-2005. \u00a0Co-founder and Senior Scientist, Discerning Technologies, LLC, 2010-2018. \u00a0Currently: Professor Emeritus &amp; Research Professor, Vanderbilt University, Dept. of Psychology &amp; Vanderbilt Vision Research Center.<\/p>\n<p><em><u>Research Program<\/u><\/em>: \u00a0My research program aims to identify the form and quantity of visually acquired information.\u00a0The experimental and theoretical objectives are to identify optical patterns that carry information about the visual world and to measure perceptual resolution\u00a0those patterns. \u00a0Specific research projects (&gt; 100 publications) have investigated\u00a0the structure and capacity of visual\u00a0attention, the role of prior knowledge, motion perception, perception of surface shape from motion and stereopsis, perception of 3D space, visual resolution of\u00a0coherent motion and binocular disparity, visual motion mechanisms, figure-ground segregation of moving patterns, peripheral motion perception in normal and low vision, and the speed of speed of responses to perceived\u00a0information. \u00a0Theoretical principles that emerge from this research include (a)\u00a0perceptual organization is based on the coherent phase structure of of dynamic retinal\u00a0images; (b) this coherent phase structure constitutes\u00a0high-resolution spatial\u00a0information about the shapes\u00a0of environmental surfaces; and (c) conscious perceptual\u00a0awareness operates at a limited and quantifiable rate in parallel with other processes of vision and action.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Education:\u00a0 B.A., 1962, University of Cincinnati; Ph.D., 1966, University of Illinois, Experimental Psychology Faculty Positions: Carnegie Institute of Technology, 1966-1968; Vanderbilt University, 1968-2005. \u00a0Co-founder and Senior Scientist, Discerning Technologies, LLC, 2010-2018. \u00a0Currently: Professor Emeritus &amp; Research Professor, Vanderbilt University, Dept. of Psychology &amp; Vanderbilt Vision Research Center. Research Program: \u00a0My research program aims to identify&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":585,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/joelappin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/joelappin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/joelappin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/joelappin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/585"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/joelappin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/joelappin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":123,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/joelappin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3\/revisions\/123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/joelappin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/joelappin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}