Israel Abramov was born in Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe). After high school he moved to London, and enrolled in University College London, where he graduated from Law School and then got a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology. For graduate studies he moved to Indiana University at Bloomington, receiving a Ph.D. in Physiological Psychology (mentor: Russel De Valois). He was a postdoctoral fellow in Biophysics (laboratory of Edward MacNichol) at Johns Hopkins University. He began his “faculty career” as Assistant Professor in the biophysics and physiology group of H. Keffer Hartline at Rockefeller University; from there he moved to Brooklyn College in 1973 as Associate Professor of psychology. Currently, he is Professor of psychology and neuroscience at Brooklyn College and The Graduate Center of CUNY (concentration area Cognitive and Comparative). For his entire career Professor Abramov has tried to understand a little about the visual system, across the life-span, in humans and other vertebrates, using physiological, histological, and behavioral methods. Currently he and his collaborators are using psychophysical methods to measure basic sensory functions, such as spatio-temporal resolution, binocular functions, color vision, motion detection, figure detection, etc. This group (Applied Vision Institute, Psychology Department, Brooklyn College) asks which functions are correlated, and thus share neuronal substrates; they also test specific groups, such as participants with Down syndrome. Applied topics have included optimal illumination of art in museums, designing instruments to measure refractive status of infants, and identifying stylistic groupings of archaeological artifacts.
Alla is a Ph.D. candidate and lecturer in the Graduate Center's Cognition, Brain, and Behavior program. She primarily studies visual psychophysics. Her current research focus is evaluating the effects of temporal modulation on image identificaton via enhancement of low spatial frequency visual components. Alla has also studied sex differences in spatial vision, sensation of hue, and cerebral lateralization of hue mechanisms. She currently teaches Introductory Psychology, Experimental Psychology, as well as Introductory Statistics at both the undergraduate and graduate levels.
Taylan is a Ph.D. student and lab instructor in the Graduate Center's Cognition, Language, and Development Program. He is currently pursuing research looking at the distribution and categorization of skin and iris color, and its effect on basic sensory functions, also investigating luminance-wavelength interaction on contrast sensitivity function.
Chloe Brittenham is a Ph.D. student in the Cognition, Language and Development program at the CUNY Graduate Center. She is interested in visual perception in both typical and atypical populations. She is currently studying stereoacuity in typical observers. Past research topics include visual abnormalities in electrophysiological responses, Visual Evoked Potentials (VEPs), in children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). She currently teaches Experimental Psychology Lab at Brooklyn College.
Kamil is a lecturer at Brooklyn College in the Psychology department. His research background is in computational neuroscience and instrumentation in psychology. Kamil enjoys finding solutions to problems and knowing how things work. This pushed him to study mathematics and psychology. He also like programming because it allows him to build solutions to problems, and implement those solutions in the world.
Allison Wu is an undergraduate student at the Macaulay Honors College at Brooklyn College. She is majoring in biology with a minor in neuroscience and is an aspiring optometrist. She is currently researching the reflectances between skin and iris to determine whether they reflect different gene pools. Additionally, she is analyzing different color appearances between males and females across different ages to create a standard uniform appearance diagram.
Olga Draganchyuk is an undergraduate student at Brooklyn College. She is pursuing a BS is Psychology with a minor in Chemistry and Health & Nutrition Sciences. She is an aspiring optometrist.
Israel Abramov was born in Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe). After high school he moved to London, and enrolled in University College London, where he graduated from Law School and then got a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology. For graduate studies he moved to Indiana University at Bloomington, receiving a Ph.D. in Physiological Psychology (mentor: Russel De Valois). He was a postdoctoral fellow in Biophysics (laboratory of Edward MacNichol) at Johns Hopkins University. He began his “faculty career” as Assistant Professor in the biophysics and physiology group of H. Keffer Hartline at Rockefeller University; from there he moved to Brooklyn College in 1973 as Associate Professor of psychology. Currently, he is Professor of psychology and neuroscience at Brooklyn College and The Graduate Center of CUNY (concentration area Cognitive and Comparative). For his entire career Professor Abramov has tried to understand a little about the visual system, across the life-span, in humans and other vertebrates, using physiological, histological, and behavioral methods. Currently he and his collaborators are using psychophysical methods to measure basic sensory functions, such as spatio-temporal resolution, binocular functions, color vision, motion detection, figure detection, etc. This group (Applied Vision Institute, Psychology Department, Brooklyn College) asks which functions are correlated, and thus share neuronal substrates; they also test specific groups, such as participants with Down syndrome. Applied topics have included optimal illumination of art in museums, designing instruments to measure refractive status of infants, and identifying stylistic groupings of archaeological artifacts.
Alla is a Ph.D. candidate and lecturer in the Graduate Center's Cognition, Brain, and Behavior program. She primarily studies visual psychophysics. Her current research focus is evaluating the effects of temporal modulation on image identificaton via enhancement of low spatial frequency visual components. Alla has also studied sex differences in spatial vision, sensation of hue, and cerebral lateralization of hue mechanisms. She currently teaches Introductory Psychology, Experimental Psychology, as well as Introductory Statistics at both the undergraduate and graduate levels.
Taylan is a Ph.D. student and lab instructor in the Graduate Center's Cognition, Language, and Development Program. He is currently pursuing research looking at the distribution and categorization of skin and iris color, and its effect on basic sensory functions, also investigating luminance-wavelength interaction on contrast sensitivity function.
Chloe Brittenham is a Ph.D. student in the Cognition, Language and Development program at the CUNY Graduate Center. She is interested in visual perception in both typical and atypical populations. She is currently studying stereoacuity in typical observers. Past research topics include visual abnormalities in electrophysiological responses, Visual Evoked Potentials (VEPs), in children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). She currently teaches Experimental Psychology Lab at Brooklyn College.
Kamil is a lecturer at Brooklyn College in the Psychology department. His research background is in computational neuroscience and instrumentation in psychology. Kamil enjoys finding solutions to problems and knowing how things work. This pushed him to study mathematics and psychology. He also like programming because it allows him to build solutions to problems, and implement those solutions in the world.
Allison Wu is an undergraduate student at the Macaulay Honors College at Brooklyn College. She is majoring in biology with a minor in neuroscience and is an aspiring optometrist. She is currently researching the reflectances between skin and iris to determine whether they reflect different gene pools. Additionally, she is analyzing different color appearances between males and females across different ages to create a standard uniform appearance diagram.
Olga Draganchyuk is an undergraduate student at Brooklyn College. She is pursuing a BS is Psychology with a minor in Chemistry and Health & Nutrition Sciences. She is an aspiring optometrist.