javid sadr, phd -- asst professor, behavioural neuroscience, umb psychology

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* i will be away from umass boston until sept 2010. given the colourfully baroque arcana of umb remote access protocols,
* this webpage (already spectacularly dusty and aged) won't see any updates during this time.
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* please immediately click through to my homepage at MIT, which is more likely to be kept up to date during this time....
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javid sadr, phd [*]
assistant professor
behavioural neuroscience
department of psychology
university of massachusetts, boston

contact information:

@
email: sadr ^ umb v edu
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* important note: i will be away from umass boston until sept 2010, so to reach me it's best to try email;
* my umass campus phone/address (below, for archaeological purposes) will NOT be any good during this time.

fullish blurb:

very elderly/incomplete CV and publication list

quickish blurb:

just arrived at UMB! these pages are in need of much updating...

for now, from my harvard vision sciences laboratory postdoc pages:

!current research focuses on high level vision, inc the perception of biological motion,
processing of faces (eg, prosopagnosia, attractiveness), the perception of objects and faces
in systematically degraded images,... one of the underlying themes of this work in general
may be said to be a quantitative, objective, vision-based approach to person perception:
the manner in which (and means by which) we visually process and assess the people we encounter
-- and conversely, what visual signals we emit, often unintentionally and even unavoidably,
through our faces and bodies, that drive others' perceptions and evaluations of us.

previous and some ongoing work also includes MEG (magnetoencephalography, esp of object and
face perception); computational models of image encoding/representation/reconstruction; and
development and application of the 'RISE' technique, for the study of object/face perception,
priming, perceptual hysteresis, neural bases of visual perception, matters of clinical and
developmental interest, etc;
human motor control (with prof emilio bizzi), including psychophysics of motor adaptation,
skill learning, bilateral transfer, and observational learning; as well as fMRI of simple
motor actions (with prof suzanne corkin)

professional and academic background: systems and computational neuroscience, biology and
kinesiology, psychology, and engineering and computer science.

teaching: all manner of neuro- and cognitive science courses at MIT, harvard, and umass boston,
including cognitive neuroscience / neuropsychoogy, perception, social psychology, cognitive science,
labs in cog sci and perception and anatomy, and introduction to psychology.

[ below links to papers may be temporarily dead until properly transferred to umb^h^h^h^h^h^h back to mit ]

a smattering of papers: [ not including in-prep ]

Troje, N.F., Sadr, J., Geyer, H. and Nakayama, K. (2006) Adaptation After-Effects
in the Perception of Gender from Biological Motion. Journal of Vision, 6(8), 850-857.
- pdf

Sadr, J. and Sinha, P. (2004) Object Recognition and Random Image Structure Evolution.
Cognitive Science, 28, 259-287.
- pdf [ this is now the definitive, most complete publication on RISE ]

Sadr, J., Jarudi, I. and Sinha, P. (2003) The Role of Eyebrows in Face Recognition.
Perception, 32, 285-293.
- pdf

Sadr, J., Mukherjee, S., Thoresz, K. and Sinha, P. (2002) The Fidelity of Local Ordinal
Encoding. In T. Dietterich, S. Becker and Z. Ghahramani (Eds.), Neural Info. Processing
Systems 14. MIT Press: Cambridge, MA.
- pdf - poster

a sputtering of talks, posters, and abstracts:

Sadr, J., Troje, N.F. and Nakayama, K. (2006) Axes versus Averages: High-Level Representations
of Dynamic Point-Light Forms. Visual Cognition, 14(1), 119-122. [ OPAM 2005 ]
- extended abstract

Sadr, J., Troje, N.F. and Nakayama, K. (2005) Attractiveness, Averageness, and Sexual
Dimorphism in Biological Motion. Vision Sciences Society, 5.
- abstract

Gibson, L., Sadr, J., Troje, N.F. and Nakayama, K. (2005) Perception of Biological Motion
at Varying Eccentricity. Vision Sciences Society, 5.
- abstract

Sadr, J., Duchaine, B. and Nakayama, K. (2004) The Perception of Facial Attractiveness
in Prosopagnosia. Vision Sciences Society, 4, 249-250.
- abstract - poster

Sadr, J. and Sinha, P. (2002) Object and Face Perception during Image Evolution and
Degradation. 25th European Conference on Visual Perception.
- abstract

Sadr, J., Fatke, B., Massay, C. and Sinha, P. (2002) Aesthetic Judgments of Faces in
Degraded Images. Vision Sciences Society, 2, 255.
- abstract

Sadr, J., Matsuoka, Y. and Bizzi, E. (2000) Dynamics-Specificity in the Bilateral Transfer
of Motor Adaptation. Neural Control of Movement, 5, 31.
- abstract

Sadr, J., Matsuoka, Y. and Bizzi, E. (1999) Asymmetric Bilateral Transfer of Motor Adaptation
in a Visually-Guided Reaching Movement. Society for Neuroscience, 25(2), 2176.
- abstract

please email to request:

more recent CV, in-prep papers, instructional materials, etc
more information on RISE and its use, incl. image pre-processing (aka, SHINE),
experimental design, proper citations, etc. and... if you're doing RISE and you did
NOT get the proper code _directly_ from me, that's a big problem, so send me an email.
other abstracts and posters that may be kicking around here somewhere
details on the making of the sept 2002 nature neuroscience cover
an audience

old affiliation and contact info (ie, "yes, you've found the right javid sadr"):

javid sadr, phd
postdoctoral research fellow
vision sciences laboratory
department of psychology
harvard university
@ @
email: sadr ^ wjh v harvard v edu | ^ fas v harvard v edu
. . . .
phone: 617-495-3884
fax: 617-495-3764
mail: 33 kirkland st, rm 740
cambridge, MA 02138
usa

even older affiliation and contact info (ie, "yes, this, too, was me, once upon a time"):

javid sadr
hhmi predoctoral fellow in neuroscience
dept of brain and cognitive sciences
massachusetts institute of technology
@
email: sadr ^ mit v edu
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phone: (617) 225-6207
fax: (617) 253-2964
mail: 45 carleton st, E25-201
cambridge, MA 02142
usa

umb phone/address -- do NOT use between now and sept 2010;
email me first for current phone/address during this time....

phone: 617-287-6316
fax: 617-287-6336
mail: mccormack bldg, rm M-4-205
department of psychology
university of massachusetts boston
100 morrissey blvd
boston, MA 02125
usa

[*] pronunciation guide, by popular demand:

1. JAW-veed
2. sadr = one syllable; vowel sound = 'sad'; 'dr' = the start of 'drink'

misc:

[ for reasons of public hygiene

"the tale of turtula", for prof brian scholl,

has been indefinitely expunged ]