I am a professor of cognitive psychology with interests in visual and auditory perception, cognition, psychology of visual art and music, the nature of pleasure, and the philosophy of mind. I am a cognitive scientist who is particularly interested in the phenomenology of experience. I conduct experiments with human observers, analyze visual and auditory patterns, and propose mathematical models of the data I obtain. I teach in the Psychology Department at the University of Virginia, which has an excellent group of researchers in perception. I am eager to attract bright and hard-working students, from the US and abroad, to join the four students (currently from The Netherlands, the US, and China) without whom my lab would not be the wonderful, collegial, exciting, and interesting environment it is.
Selected Publications
Gepshtein, S. & Kubovy, M. (2005). Stability and change in perception: Spatial organization in temporal context. Experimental Brain Research, 160, 487-495.
Strother, L. & Kubovy, M. (2003). Perceived complexity and the grouping effect in band patterns. Acta Psychologica, 114, 229–244 (issue in honor of Emanuel Leeuwenberg. Guest editors: P. Van Der Helm & J. Wagemans).
Kubovy, M. & Van Valkenburg, D. (2001). Auditory and visual objects. Cognition. 80(1–2):97–126 (issue on perceptual objects. Guest editor: B. Scholl)
Kubovy, M., & Epstein, W. (2001). Internalization: A metaphor we can live without. Behavioral & Brain Sciences, 24, 618–625 (written for a special issue of BBS devoted to a critique of Shepard's (1994) account of perceptual-cognitive Universals as internalizations of non-stochastic physical structure in the environment. Guest editors: L. T. Maloney, R. Mausfeld, & D. Heyer).
Kubovy, M. and Holcombe, A. O. and Wagemans, J. (1998). On the lawfulness of grouping by proximity. Cognitive Psychology, 35, 71--98.
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