Department of Psychology
University of Southern California
SGM 501, MC 1061
3620 McClintock Ave.
Los Angeles, CA 90089-1061
| phone | (213)805-0631 |
| fax | (213)746-9082 |
nschwart usc edu
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Research
| Shape perception, visual psychophysics, object
and face recognition, signal in noise methods and theory, information theory, hemispheric interactivity, neural network
modeling, place theory, organic computing, spike-timing dependent
plasticity, biochemical mechanisms of synaptic
plasticity. |
Publications
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Schwartz, N. (2005). Estimating curvature of nondifferentiable functions and complex shape contours. Perceptual and Motor Skills, 101, 362-364.
Schwartz, N., Chang, S., & Crawford, M. (in preparation). Subject error patterns during face recognition expose a bias toward configural information regardless of inversion.
Schwartz, N. (in preparation). Face recognition is unaffected by inversion for the first 85 milliseconds of exposure.
Schwartz, N., McEntire, P. (in preparation). Error-from-sample: A novel method to estimate representation strength and computational value of metathetic stimuli.
Schwartz, N. (in preparation). Attneave's Cat and Intersection of Constraints: Points of high curvature are not important for shape recognition.
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Conference Posters/Abstracts
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Schwartz, N. (2007). Using the temporal dynamics of the Face Inversion Effect as a means to identify contributing configural and part dimensions. Vision Sciences Society Meeting, Sarasota, FL.
Chang, S., Crawford, M., & Schwartz, N. (2007). Subject error patterns expose a bias toward configural information when viewing inverted faces. Vision Sciences Society Meeting, Sarasota, FL.
Schwartz, N. (2006). Attneave's Cat revisited: Points of high curvature are not important for shape recognition. Joint Symposium in Neural Science, La Jolla, CA.
McEntire, P., & Schwartz, N. (2006). Curvature is encoded stronger than it is perceived. Vision Sciences Society Meeting, Sarasota, FL.
Schwartz, N. (2006). Attneave's Cat revisited: Points of high curvature are not important for shape recognition. Vision Sciences Society Meeting, Sarasota, FL.
Schwartz, N. (2005). Spike-timing dependent plasticity networks extract input likelihood statistics. USC Neuroscience Symposium, Los Angeles, CA.
Schwartz, N., & Tjan, B. (2004). Spatial summation zone for gratings in natural scenes. Vision Sciences Society Meeting, Sarasota, FL.
Tjan, B., He, C., Chung, S., & Schwartz, N. (2004). Letter crowding in the periphery is best modeled by an increase in additive equivalent noise. Vision Sciences Society Meeting, Sarasota, FL.
Dang, S., Tjan, B., Chung, S., & Schwartz, N. (2003). Spatial phase related nonlinearity in the alignment of contours. Vision Sciences Society Meeting, Sarasota, FL.
Schwartz, N., Tjan, B., & Chung, S. (2003). Spatial-frequency phase noise in central and peripheral vision. Vision Sciences Society Meeting, Sarasota, FL.
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