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David Whitney is a Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Berkeley, with affiliations in Cognitive Science and Neuroscience. His research focuses on visual perception, particularly how humans process information in cluttered environments through mechanisms like ensemble perception, serial dependence, and perceptual crowding. He employs techniques such as psychophysics, fMRI, and TMS to study these phenomena.
Whitney's recent work examines serial dependence in schizophrenia, emotion perception in crowds, and medical image analysis for dermatology and radiology. His studies reveal how the brain uses dynamic predictive templates and motion cues to stabilize perception despite neural processing delays. Publications span Current Biology, Nature Reviews Psychology, and PLoS ONE, with a strong emphasis on interdisciplinary applications of perceptual science.
Scientific contributions include foundational studies on visuomotor control, blind spot filling-in, and holistic face processing. His lab investigates perceptual stability across eye movements, spatial localization, and cross-modal interactions. Whitney has received grants such as NIH EY018216 to support his research on motion-dependent visual coding. Detailed information about his work is available on the Whitney Lab website.
