Gideon Caplovitz

Gideon Caplovitz is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at the University of Nevada, Reno, specializing in cognitive neuroscience and visual perception. He holds a Ph.D. in Cognitive Neuroscience from Dartmouth College (2008), an M.S. in Mathematics from the Courant Institute (1998), and a B.A. in Computational Mathematics from UC Santa Cruz (1995). His research focuses on neural mechanisms underlying visual perception, integrating behavioral experiments with neuroimaging techniques. He investigates interactions between form/motion processing, local/global visual integration, and the influence of consciousness on perceptual systems.

Caplovitz leads projects at the Center for Integrative Neuroscience and has secured grants from the NSF and NIH. His work explores questions such as how form-motion interactions reveal brain organization and how conscious experiences modulate perceptual processes. He has expertise in computational modeling from prior internships at institutions like AT&T Bell Labs and the Naval Undersea Warfare Center.

His publications span journals like Neuropsychologia, Cerebral Cortex, and Consciousness & Cognition, addressing topics from visual working memory to synesthesia. He currently advises graduate students in the Cognitive and Brain Sciences program, focusing on interdisciplinary approaches to understanding the visual brain.