Steven K. Shevell

Steven Shevell is the Eliakam Hastings Moore Distinguished Service Professor of Psychology and Ophthalmology & Visual Science, and a faculty member in the graduate program in Computational Neuroscience. He received an undergraduate degree in psychology and an M.S. in engineering from Stanford University; and an M.A. in statistics and Ph.D. in mathematical psychology from the University of Michigan. He is chair of the Psychology Department’s graduate program in Integrative Neuroscience.



He is the founding associate editor of the Journal of Vision, former senior editor of Vision Research, the editor of the Optical Society of America's most recent edition of The Science of Color, and immediate past-president of the Vision Sciences Society.

Perceptual Resolution of Ambiguity: Can Tuned, Divisive Normalization Account for both Interocular Similarity Grouping and Difference Enhancement.
Perceptual Resolution of Ambiguity: Can Tuned, Divisive Normalization Account for both Interocular Similarity Grouping and Difference Enhancement. bioRxiv. 2024 Jun 26.
PMID: 38617235

Ambiguity is a linking feature for interocular grouping.
Ambiguity is a linking feature for interocular grouping. J Vis. 2022 10 04; 22(11):12.
PMID: 36264654

The Certainty of Ambiguity in Visual Neural Representations.
The Certainty of Ambiguity in Visual Neural Representations. Annu Rev Vis Sci. 2021 09 15; 7:465-486.
PMID: 34524881

Binocularly-driven competing neural responses and the perceptual resolution of color.
Binocularly-driven competing neural responses and the perceptual resolution of color. J Vis. 2021 09 01; 21(10):15.
PMID: 34542576

Decoding chromaticity and luminance from patterns of EEG activity.
Decoding chromaticity and luminance from patterns of EEG activity. Psychophysiology. 2021 04; 58(4):e13779.
PMID: 33550667

Neural representations of perceptual color experience in the human ventral visual pathway.
Neural representations of perceptual color experience in the human ventral visual pathway. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2020 06 09; 117(23):13145-13150.
PMID: 32457156

Seeing fruit on trees: enhanced perceptual dissimilarity from multiple ambiguous neural representations.
Seeing fruit on trees: enhanced perceptual dissimilarity from multiple ambiguous neural representations. J Opt Soc Am A Opt Image Sci Vis. 2020 Apr 01; 37(4):A255-A261.
PMID: 32400555

Grouping ambiguous neural representations: neither identical chromaticity (the stimulus) nor color (the percept) is necessary.
Grouping ambiguous neural representations: neither identical chromaticity (the stimulus) nor color (the percept) is necessary. J Opt Soc Am A Opt Image Sci Vis. 2020 Apr 01; 37(4):A97-A104.
PMID: 32400522

Does feature integration affect resolution of multiple simultaneous forms of ambiguity?
Does feature integration affect resolution of multiple simultaneous forms of ambiguity? J Opt Soc Am A Opt Image Sci Vis. 2020 Apr 01; 37(4):A105-A113.
PMID: 32400521

Ambiguous chromatic neural representations: Perceptual resolution by grouping.
Ambiguous chromatic neural representations: Perceptual resolution by grouping. Curr Opin Behav Sci. 2019 Dec; 30:194-202.
PMID: 35677862

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