Huk Lab
Sensory & Cognitive
Neuroscience
UT Austin Neurobiology | Psychology
Institute for Neuroscience
Center for Perceptual Systems
Imaging Research Center
The University of Texas at Austin

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Alex Huk

Principal Investigator

Alex Huk. Assistant Professor, Neurobiology, Psychology, Institute for Neuroscience, Center for Perceptual Systems & Imaging Research Center, UT-Austin.

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Bas Rokerk

Postdoctoral Researchers

Bas Rokers. Ph.D., UCLA. Research interests: Neural basis of the perception of 3D motion, motion adaptation, Bayesian models of motion processing. Supported by a Rubicon Postdoctoral Fellowship from The Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO).





Kyler Eastman. Ph.D., UT-Austin. Research interests: Perceptual decision-making, temporal dynamics of neural activity, ideal observer models.


Graduate Students

Thad Czuba. (co-advised w/ Larry Cormack). Ph.D. student in Sensory Neuroscience, UT-Austin. Research interests: 3D motion perception, motion aftereffects.

Miriam Meister Miriam Meister. Ph.D. student in Neuroscience, UT-Austin. Research interests: Perceptual decision-making, working memory, spatial representation.


Nick Malecek, Ph.D. student in Neuroscience, UT-Austin. Fall semester rotation.


Laboratory Research Scientist / Technician

Colin Rorex, B.A. Carleton College.


Research Assistants

Jay Hennig, undergraduate, UT-Austin. Research interests: Tools for sharing neurophysiological data, relation between 3D and 2D motion perception.


Lab Alumni

Dean Kirson. Ph.D. student in Neuroscience, UT-Austin.

Samir Zughni, B.S. UT-Austin. Post-grad research assistant, 2008-2009.

Kyle Guillet, Dean's Scholars Program, UT-Austin, undergraduate researcher, 2008-2009.

Mi Zhang, Ph.D., UCSD. Post-Doc, 2007.


Other Vision Faculty/Groups at UT-Austin

David Ress.

Larry Cormack.

Bill Geisler

Eyal Seidemann

Nicholas Priebe

Jonathan Pillow.

Max Snodderly

Mary Hayhoe

Dana Ballard

David Gilden

Duane Albrecht


Other Collaborators

Todd Maddox, UT-Austin. Links between perceptual decision-making and categorization tasks.

Frank Durgin, Swarthmore College. Paradoxical perceptual consequencies of high frequencies in motion perception.

Jon Winawer & Lera Boroditsky, Stanford University. Interactions between visual imagery of motion, implied motion, and standard motion perception.