Tarow Indow (949)-824-6218 tindow@uci.edu

Global structure and geometry of visual space. The space we perceive around us is a highly structured three-dimensional manifold. In contrast to most studies of visual perception that are concerned with local phenomena in this space, my main concern is the geometrical structure of visual space in the large. System of perceptual colors. We can distinguish about seven million colors. These can be represented as points in a three-dimensional system, and this is the reason why we can have color TV and photography. My research centers on the problem of how to introduce a "metric" into this system. This is an exciting interdisciplinary problem in applied physics, physiology, and psychology. Human memory. Retrieval from long-term memory and its failures are stochastic processes. The parameters involved are shown to be meaningfully related to such factors as categorization and age.

Selected Publications

Indow, T. (1990). On geometrical analysis of global structure of visual space. In H.T. Geissler (Ed.) Psychological Explorations of Mental Structures. Toronto: Hogrefe & Huber, Chapter 14, 172-180.

Indow, T. (1991). A critical review of Luneburg's model with regard to global structure of visual space. Psychological Review 98, 430-453.

Indow, T. (1993). Analysis of events on time-dimension: a soft model based on extreme statistics. Behaviormetrika 20, 109-124.

Indow, T. (1994). Metrics in color spaces: Im kleinen und im groessen. In G.H. Fisher and D. Leming (Eds.) Contributions to Mathematical Psychology, Psychometrics, and Methodology. New York: Springer, 3-17.

Indow, T.(1995). Psychophysical scaling: Scientific and practical applications. In R.D. Luce, et al (Eds.) Geometric representations of perceptual phenomena. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 1-28.