jordan w. suchow

Grad student in cognitive science at Harvard studying brains, minds, machines, and how they process visual information.

suchow@fas.harvard.edu

(also on twitter, facebook, google+, vimeo, flickr, and linkedin.)

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cv excerpt

Curriculum vitae

An academic history; a biographical sketch.

selected projects
silencing paper excerpt

Motion silences awareness of visual change
Current Biology. (BibTeX) (PubMed)

A set of objects changing in brightness, color, size or shape appears to change less when it moves. See the demos.

coming soon

NPG's policy on authorship
Nature.

Nature Publishing Group announces a ban on human authorship. (This is fiction, for now.)

nice figure

nicefigure.org

A roundup of the nicest figures recently published in scientific journals, updated daily.

silencing poster

Which kinds of motion silence awareness of visual change? Poster at VSS 2011.

Background, local, and illusory motion produce silencing.

imagine magazine excerpt

Seeing things: visual perception research at NYU
Imagine magazine.

In high school (and also as an undergrad), I worked in Denis Pelli's lab at NYU. Hoping to encourage other students to give research a try, I wrote this piece.

zipf.it

zipf.it
Worried about whether your iTunes listening habits observe Zipf's law, or how your music library compares with others?

Solution: zipf.it.

random walk blocks

Random walk blocks
Pretty blocks created by superimposing smoothed random walks painted in transparent colors.

latex template for harvard dissertation

LaTeX template for Harvard thesis
(Sample pdf)

the disembodied eye

The disembodied eye
A visual party trick. When looking at an upside down face, the eyes eventually appear to flip right-side up, giving the eerie impression that they no longer belong to the face.

water poem

Water poem
A poem I wrote (well, dictated really) when I was four.