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Gabriel Diaz
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"Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony."

- Lou Reed
Email: diazg2@rpi.edu

Phone: ( 518 ) 276-4332
Gabe is interested in:

feed forward models, internal representations, perceptual attuntement, the flagrant use of buzz-words, the adaptive ecological perception of action-scaled affordances, all sorts of music, your money, your job, world-domination, cute stuff

Gabe is also interesed in:

• Music
• Photos

Degrees:
B.A. in Psychology, Skidmore College, 2004

Currently working towards a Ph.D. in Cognitive Science at R.P.I. (Started in Sept. of 2004 )
Projects:
- Presented Temporal Integration at Extremely Low Contrast at the annual Vision Science Symposium in May, 2004.
- Presented The Visual Control of Moving Behind a Lead Vehicle at the annual Vision Science Symposium in May, 2005
- Presented The Flexible Attunement to Different Optical Variables in Visually Guided Action at the annual Vision Scienc Symposium in May, 2006
Current Work:
I am leading an investigation of human interceptive behavior. Participants must use a foot operated pedal to locomote through through a realisitic 3D environment to intercept a moving target. Similar to realistic targets in an interceptive task, the target object is subject to changes in velocity within each trial. Though the target's velocity profile is unpredictable within each trial, it will demonstrate statistical regularities observable over repeated trials. If the target accelerates on a high proportion of trials, does the subject learn to make adjustments that anticipate statistically probable shifts in target velocity?
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