At the USC Image Understanding Laboratory, Irving Biederman and the late Bosco Tjan’s pioneering research into vision and the mind seeks to unlock the mystery of how our brains can recognize previously unseen scenes, objects or faces in a fraction of a second.
Renowned for his pioneering research in visual cognition and perception, Bosco Tjan was a devoted teacher and a beloved professor of psychology.
A student’s unusual vision issue gives brain researchers an opportunity to calculate a relationship between neural activity and the blood.
As the British writer and philosopher Aldous Huxley famously noted, “There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.” USC Dornsife psychologists examine how our minds perceive the world around us — and how those perceptions can vary from reality.
