Russell Epstein

Russell Epstein is a professor of Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania, who studies neural mechanisms underlying visual scene perception, event perception, object recognition, and spatial navigation in humans. His lab studies the role of the Parahippocampal and retrosplenial cortices in determining how people orient themselves relative to their surroundings.[1][2]

Education

Epstein received an undergraduate degree in physics at the University of Chicago and a Ph.D. in computer vision with Alan Yuille at Harvard.[3]

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References
  1. "Beyond the Nobel: What Scientists Are Learning About How Your Brain Navigates". Wired.com. Retrieved April 11, 2016.
  2. Epstein Lab
  3. Epstein Lab - people


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