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Dale Purves, M.D.
George B. Geller Professor
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B203 Levine Science Research Center
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The Purves laboratory is continuing to study visual perception and its neurobiological underpinnings. Ongoing investigations include understanding the perception of brightness, color, orientation, motion, and depth. The unifying theme of these several projects is the hypothesis that visual percepts are generated according to a wholly empirical strategy that represents to the observer the empirical significance of the stimulus rather than its properties ...