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Stuart Fuller- Lab Alum

Hails From: Born in Jacksonville, NC and raised in Rochester, NY

Educated at: University of Rochester, BA in Biology 1979; MBA Marketing and Finance 1981

Research Interests:My research has focused on the general question of whether exogenous attention changes the appearance of what we see.  The answer so far is that it may depend upon the visual dimension being examined. Prior work in the Carrasco Lab has shown that attention increases apparent contrast and apparent spatial frequency.  Recently, Taosheng Liu and I demonstrated that attention increases apparent motion coherence, i.e. the direction of motion in dot patterns looks more consistent than it physically is.  In another study, I showed that it increases apparent color saturation, making stimuli look “more colorful”, but it has no effect on hue.  I have also been working on how attention effects on appearance interact with the vertical meridian asymmetry in the visual field.

Current Research: I’m presently working on the cueing or triggering mechanism for exogenous attention, to understand what constitutes a sufficient cue on different visual dimensions and how the mechanism may adjust for different conditions and visual scene characteristics.

Publications & Presentations:

• Fuller, S, and Carrasco, M. (2006) Exogenous attention and color perception:  Performance and appearance of saturation and hue.  Vision Research, 2006 Sep 15;
  
  
• Liu, T., Fuller, S, and Carrasco, M. (2006).  Attention alters the appearance of motion coherence.  Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, in press.
  
  
• odriguez, R., Fuller, S., Gobell, J., and Carrasco, M. (2006).  Apparent contrast differs across the vertical meridian: visual and attentional factors. (abstract, poster). Visual Sciences Society Annual Meeting, Sarasota, Florida
  
  
• Fuller, S., and Carrasco, M. (2005).  Hue Discrimination is Invariant with Transient Covert Attention, (abstract, poster).  Visual Sciences Society Annual Meeting, Sarasota, Florida
  
  
• Fuller, S., Ling, S. & Carrasco, M. (2004, May). Transient Attention Increases Perceived Saturation. Vision Sciences Society, Sarasota, FL.
  

Other Interests: I've had a great interest in music for many years, and it's caused me to amass a pretty good collection of CD's (as well as vinyl); Movies (Quentin Tarantino, Joel and Ethan Coen, the Wachowski brothers, etc.); dogs (I just got a new puppy); science fiction; the Civil War.

Future Goals: Quantitative methods, Bernese Mountain Dogs, Robert Fripp, David Bowie, running.

Email: sgf208@nyu.edu