Vita George Sperling

VITA GEORGE SPERLING UCI Distinguished Professor, Professer of Cognitive Sciences Professer of Neurobiology and Behavior Fellow, Institute For Mathematical Behavioral Sciences, University of California, Irvine

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EDUCATION B.S. (Mathematics). University of Michigan, 1955. Joint major: Mathematics and biophysics. (Fulﬁlled requirements for summa cum laude.) Award: Gomberg Chemistry Prize and Scholarship, Memberships in collegiate honor societies: Phi Beta Kappa (liberal arts and science), Phi Eta Sigma (freshman honors), Phi Kappa Phi (all-discipline honors), Sigma Xi (science) M.A. Experimental Psychology, Columbia University, 1956. Ph.D. Experimental Psychology, Harvard University, 1959.

PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYMENT Permanent Member Technical Research Staff, Acoustical and Behavioral Research Center, AT&T Bell Laborato- ries, Murray Hill, New Jersey: 1958 (summer); full-time, 1959-70; part-time, 1970-86. Professor of Psychology and Neural Sciences, Graduate School of Arts and Science, New York Univer- sity, 1970-1992. UCI Distinguished Professor, Department of Cognitive Sciences, Department of Neurobiology and Behavior, University of California, Irvine. 1992- Visiting Research Assistant in Biophysics, Brookhaven National Laboratories, Upton, New York, summer, 1955. Research Assistant in Psychology, Harvard University, 1957-59. Instructor in Psychology (part-time), Department of Psychology, Washington Square College, New York University, 1962-63. Visiting Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, you available? Duke University, Spring, 1964. Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, Columbia University, 1964-65. Acting Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, 1967-68. Honorary Research Associate, Department of Psychology, University College, University of London, 1969-70. Visiting Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Western Australia, Perth, Western Aus- tralia. Summer, 1972. Visiting Professor, Department of Psychology, U. Washington, Seattle, Summer, 1977. Visiting Scholar, Department of Psychology, Stanford University, Stanford, California, Spring, 1984. Visiting Scholar, Research Unit in Mathematical Behavioral Sciences, University of California, Irvine, California, Spring, 1991.

HONORS AND AWARDS Elections to Professional Honorary Societies American Academy of Arts and Sciences (Elected, 1992). National Academy of Sciences (Elected, 1985) Society of Experimental Psychologists (Elected, 1974) Awards John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Award. 1969-70 (Travel to University College, Lon- don). Award for a theoretical study of perception and short-term memory. Distinguished Scientiﬁc Contribution Award, 1988. American Psychological Association Howard Crosby Warren Medal, 1996. Society of Experimental Psychologists Edgar D. Tillyer Award, 2002. Optical Society of America Helmholtz Award, 2004. International Neural Network Society. United States Air Force, Award and Medal for Meritorious Civilian Service (1993). University of California, Irvine. 1998 Distinguished Faculty Lectureship Award for Research. Fellowships in Professional Societies American Association for the Advancement of Science (Fellow, Psychology Section, 1980) American Psychological Association (Fellow, Division 3, Experimental Psychology, 1972; Fellow, Division 6, Physiological Psychology, 1987) American Psychological Society (Charter member, 1988-; William James Fellow) Optical Society of America (Fellow, 1973) Leadership Positions in Professional Societies American Association for the Advancement of Science (Chairman, Psychology Section, 1990) Eastern Psychological Association (Board of Directors, 1982-85) International Neural Network Society (Founding Member, Governing Board 1987-91) Society for Computers in Psychology (Steering Committee, 1974-78, 1985-86) Society for Mathematical Psychology (Executive Board, 1979-85; Chairman, 1983-84). United States Air Force, Scientiﬁc Advisory Board (1988-92).

RESEARCH GRANTS Air Force Ofﬁce of Scientiﬁc Research, Visual Information Processing Program Visual Motion Perception and Visual Attentive Processes AFSOR-80-0279 (1980-1984). Visual Motion Perception and Visual Attentive Processes AFOSR-85-0364 (1984-87). Visual Motion Perception AFOSR-88-0140 (1988-1991). Visual Motion Perception and Visual Attentive Processes AFOSR-91-0178 (1991-1993). Visual Motion Perception and Visual Attentive Processes AFOSR-F49620-94-1-0073 (1993-1994). Visual Motion Perception and Visual Information Processing F49620-94-1-0345 (1994-1997). Visual Motion Perception, Visual Attention, and Visual Information Processing F49620-98-1-0152 (1997-2002).

-2- Deriving a Computational Theory of Visual Spatial Attention FA9550-04-1-0225 (2004-2006). National Science Foundation, Science and Technology to Aid the Handicapped, PFR-8017189. (1980). Low Bandwidth Video Communication for the Deaf. Ofﬁce of Naval Research, Cognitive and Neural Sciences Program, ONR N00014-88-K-0569 (1988-1991) Visual Attention and Short-Term Memory. National Institutes of Health (2004-2006). Dynamic neuroimaging with high-resolution SSVEPs (co-PI).

TRAINING GRANTS National Institutes of Mental Health, DHEW, NIMH F1MH08172 (1980-1982). Sponsor for Barry Schwartz, Predoctoral Award in Experimental Psychology, Non-Rigid Perception in the Kinetic Depth Effect. National Institutes of Mental Health, Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Administration 5-T32-MH14267-07 (1981-1982). Post-Doctoral Training in Experimental Psychology. Preceptor for Carrie Margolin. National Institutes of Mental Health, Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Administration 5-T32-MH14267-07 (1982-1983). Post-Doctoral Training in Experimental Psychology. Preceptor for Joyce Farrell Experimental Psychology. Applied Cognitive Concentration Training Grant: 5-T32-MH14267 (1988-1990). Preceptor for Ann K. Sutter National Eye Institute, National Institutes of Health (1986-1987). The Role of Attention in Visual Pro- cessing. Preceptor for Cathryn J. Downing Air Force Ofﬁce of Scientiﬁc Research, Augmentation Award for Science and Engineering Research Training (AASERT) F49620-93-1-0520 (1993-1996). Experimental and Theoretical Studies of Selective Attention in Visual Search.. Preceptor for Erik Blaser

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS Current Annual Interdisciplinary Conference (Founder and Organizer, 1975-) Eastern Psychological Association (Board of Directors, 1982-85) National Academy of Sciences (Elected, 1985) Optical Society of America (Fellow, 1973; Edgar D. Tillyer Award, 2002) Psychonomic Society (1965- ) Society for Computers in Psychology (Steering Committee, 1974-78, 1985-86) Society for Mathematical Psychology (Executive Board, 1979-85; Chairman, 1983-84). American Psychological Society (Charter member, 1988-; William James Fellow) Vision Sciences Society (2001- ). Past American Psychological Association (1959-1989. Fellow, Division 3, 1972, Fellow, Division 6, 1987; Distinguished Scientiﬁc Contribution Award, 1988) Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology International Neural Network Society (Founding Member, Governing Board 1987-91; Helmholtz Aw ard, 2004)

-3- RESEARCH INTERESTS Psychophysical and brain-imaging investigations of human information processing: vision, attention, and short-term memory; mathematical, neural-network, and computational models; computer vision and image processing. September, 2005.

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