Erik Blaser
Area of Expertise
Visual psychophysics
Degrees
PhD, University of California, Irvine
Professional Publications & Contributions
- Curriculum Vitae
- Blaser, E., Pylyshyn, Z.W., & Holcombe, A. (2000). Tracking an object through feature-space. Nature, 408, 196-199.
- Kaldy, Z. & Blaser, E. (2009). How to compare apples and oranges: Infants' object identification tested with equally salient shape, luminance and color changes. Infancy, 14, 222-43.
- Blaser, E., Shepard, T. (2009). Maximal motion aftereffects in spite of diverted awareness. Vision Research, 49(10), 1174-81.
- Blaser, E. & Kaldy, Z. (2010). Infants get five stars on iconic memory tests: A partial report test of 6-month-old infants' iconic memory capacity. Psychological Science, 21, 1643-1645.
- Kaldy, Z., Giserman, I., Carter, A. S., & Blaser, E. (2013). The mechanisms underlying the ASD advantage in visual search. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders. doi: 10.1007/s10803-013-1957-x. [Epub ahead of print]
Additional Information
Dr. Blaser studies human perception, specifically visual psychophysics. Some current studies focus on visual attention (how do you program your mental ‘autopilot’ for complicated visual tasks, such as driving?), depth and scale perception (might there be ‘clues’ to how big an object is, hidden in the texture on that object’s surface?), perceptual learning (when you learn a task, how should we characterize the underlying neural changes?), and cognitive development (which features - color, shape, size, texture - do infants rely on most for remembering and comparing ?).
TEACHING:
Perception (Psych 255); Advanced Visual Perception (Psych 451); Introduction to Cognitive Science (Psych/CS L271).