Both Sides Now: Human Symmetry Detection. Review of Human Symmetry Perception and Its Computational Analysis, by Tyler, C. W. (Ed.)

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Christopher W. Tyler is currently a Senior Scientist at and Associate Director of the Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute in San Francisco, California. He has served as a member of numerous scientific review committees and as an Associate Editor and reviewer of manuscripts for most of the major journals in the fields of perception and experimental psychology. His early work included the development of improved clinical tests for various eye diseases and advanced methods for studying infant vision. His current interests include the study of the properties of cortical receptive fields and the mathematical modeling of various aspects of visual perception in humans (e.g., 3-D stereopsis, texture perception, symmetry perception). He has published extensively in the areas of pattern detection, perceptual encoding, and the computational analysis of processes underlying human symmetry perception and human stereopsis. Sal A. Soraci is an Associate Professor of Psychology at Tufts University, and the Director of the Engineering Psychology/Human Factors Program in Liberal Arts there. He also holds appointments as Lecturer in Neurology at Harvard Medical School and as a Research Scientist at the Eunice Kennedy Shriver Center. His research interests include generative processes in memory, the relationship between perceptual and cognitive processes, and intelligence-related differences in attentional functioning. Michael T. Carlin is a Research Associate at the Eunice Kennedy Shriver Center for Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities and also holds an appointment as Research Assistant Professor in Psychology at Tufts University. His research has an emphasis on identifying similarities and differences in preattentional and attentional processing across individuals differing in intelligence, and the design of display formats that optimize the performances (e.g., encoding, target detection, free recall) of individuals with mental retardation.