EDUCATION
SUNY Optometry, Postdoctoral training, Vision Science, 2005-
Rutgers University, Ph.D., Cognitive Psychology, 2006
Rutgers University, Certificate of Cognitive Science, 2006
Rutgers University, M.S., Cognitive Psychology, 2006
Macalester College, B.A., Psychology and Philosophy, 1998
PUBLICATIONS
Cohen, E. H., Singh, M., & Maloney, L.T. (In Press). Perceptual segmentation and the perceived orientation of dot clusters: The role of robust statistics. Journal of Vision.
Cohen, E. H. & Zaidi, Q. (2007). Fundamental failures of shape constancy resulting from cortical anisotropy. Journal of Neuroscience. 27(46), 12540 –12545.
Cohen, E. H. & Singh, M. (2007). Geometric determinants of shape segmentation: Tests using segment identification. Vision Research. 47 (22), 2825–2840.
Cohen, E. H., Schnitzer, B.S., Gersch, T.M., Singh, M., & Kowler, E. (2007). The relationship between spatial pooling and attention in saccadic and perceptual tasks. Vision Research, 47, 1907-1923.
Cohen, E. H. & Zaidi, Q. (2007). The oblique effect and three-dimensional shape. Visual Cognition. 15(1), 80-83.
Cohen, E. H. & Singh, M. (2006). Perceived orientation of complex shape reflects graded part decomposition. Journal of Vision, 6, 805-821.
Cohen, E. H., Barenholtz, E., Singh, M., & Feldman, J. (2005). What change detection tells us about the visual representation of shape. Journal of Vision, 5(4), 313-321.
Barenholtz, E., Cohen, E. H., Feldman, J., & Singh, M. (2003). Detection of Change in Shape: An advantage for concavities. Cognition. 89, 1-9.
CONFERENCE ABSTRACTS
Cohen, E.H. & Zaidi, Q. (2008). Motion perception driven by inferred shape properties. Poster to be presented at Vision Sciences Society annual meeting, Naples, Fl.
Zaidi, Q. & Cohen, E.H. (2007) From cortical anisotropy to failures of 3-D shape constancy. Talk given at the European Conference on Visual Perception, Arezzo, Italy.
Cohen, E.H. & Zaidi, Q. (2007). Salience of mirror symmetry in natural patterns. Poster presented at Vision Sciences Society annual meeting, Sarasota, Fl.
Cohen, E.H. & Zaidi, Q. (2006). The oblique effect and three dimensional shape. Talk givenat Object, Perception, Attention, and Memory annual meeting in Houston, TX.
Singh, M., Cohen, E.H., & Maloney, L.T. (2006). The influence of perceptual segmentation on the perceived orientation of dot clusters. Poster presented at Vision Sciences Society annual meeting, Sarasota, Fl.
Cohen, E.H., Schnitzer, B.S., Gersch, T. M., Sanghvi, Singh, M., & Kowler, E. (2005) Differences in attentional filtering between saccades and perception. Poster presented at European Conference on Visual Perception. Coruña, Spain.
Cohen, E.H. & Singh, M. (2005). Perceived orientation of complex shapes reflects graded part decomposition. Poster presented at Vision Sciences Society annual meeting, Sarasota, FL.
Cohen, E.H. & Singh, M. (2004). The graded nature of parts in shape representation: Insights from a segment-identification task. Poster presented at Vision Sciences Society annual meeting, Sarasota, FL.
Cohen, E.H. & Singh, M. (2003). Curvature extrema and contour representation: Insights from a segment identification task. Poster presented at Object, Perception, Attention, and Memory annual meeting, Vancouver, B.C.
Cohen, E. H., Barenholtz, E., Singh, M., & Feldman, J. (2003). Superior change detection at shape concavities. Poster presented at Vision Sciences Society annual meeting, Sarasota, FL.
Barenholtz, E., Cohen, E. H., Feldman, J., & Singh, M. (2003). Non-accidental properties and change detection. Poster presented at Vision Sciences Society annual meeting, Sarasota, FL.
Feldman, J., Singh, M., Barenholtz, E., & Cohen, E. H., (2003). A psychophysical window onto the mental representation of shape. Poster presented at Vision Sciences Society annual meeting, Sarasota, FL.
Cohen, E. H. & Pylyshyn, Z. W. (2002). Searching through subsets of moving items. Poster presented at Vision Sciences Society annual meeting, Sarasota, FL.
Leonard, C., Pylyshyn, Z. W., Cohen, E. H., & Dennis, J.H. (2002). The effect of a secondary monitoring task on multiple object tracking. Poster presented at Vision Sciences Society annual meeting, Sarasota, FL.
INVITED TALKS
Cohen, E.H. (2008). As the shape turns: Rotation and shape (in)constancy. Invited talk to be given at the Rutgers University Perceptual Science Series.
Cohen, E.H. (2005). The role of part segmentation in shape representation. Invited colloquium talk given at the State University of New York, Optometry School.
Cohen, E.H. (2005). The role of part segmentation in shape representation. Invited talk given at the MIT, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences.
Cohen, E.H. (2005). Part segmentation and shape representation. Invited talk given at the University of California, Berkeley.
Cohen, E.H. & Singh, M (2003). Curvature extrema and contour representation: Insightsfrom a segment identification task. Talk given at October 2003 Rutgers Psychology Department Symposium.
AWARDS
National Institute of Health (NIH) National Research Service Award Pre-doctoral Fellowship, 2001-2002.
Macalester College Baird Scholarship, 1996-1998
TEACHING INTERESTS
Introduction to Cognitive Science, Cognitive Psychology, Sensation and Perception, Shape Perception, Visual Attention, Computational Vision, Introduction to Psychology, Introduction to Statistics.
SERVICE
Member of the Vision Science Society.
Member of the Society for Neuroscience.
Ad hoc reviewer for Cognitive Processing.