Dr. Assaf Harel joins the Department of Psychology Faculty

The Wright State University Department of Psychology welcomes Dr. Assaf Harel.

Dr. Assaf Harel is a cognitive neuroscientist investigating the neural basis of visual recognition. Dr. Harel will head a new lab in the Psychology Department, the Human Neuroscience and Visual Cognition Lab, which will employ a host of behavioral and neuroimaging techniques (such as fMRI and EEG) to study how we perceive and think about the world around us, and how these processes are substantiated in our brain. Dr. Harel’s topics of research include visual expertise, object and scene recognition, perceptual