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M a n i s h   S i n g h
A s s o c i a t e   P r o f e s s o r

Department of Psychology
Rutgers – New Brunswick campus

Member, Rutgers Center for Cognitive Science
Rutgers Perceptual Science Group

Email: manish AT ruccs.rutgers.edu
Phone: (732) 445-6714 / 8195;   Fax: (732) 445-6715
Departmental address: 152 Frelinghuysen Road, Piscataway, New Jersey 08854


Ph.D., 1998: Department of Cognitive Sciences, University of California, Irvine

1998 - 2001: Post-doctoral fellow, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology


R e s e a r c h   I n t e r e s t s

Computational and psychophysical investigation of mid-level vision

Visual representation of shape

Visual interpolation and extrapolation of contour and surface geometry

Computation of layered surface structure under partial occlusion and transparency


S e l e c t e d   P u b l i c a t i o n s

Fulvio, J., Singh, M., & Maloney, L. (2008). Precision and consistency of contour interpolation. Vision Research, 48, 831-849.

Cohen, E. and Singh, M. (2007). Geometric determinants of shape segmentation: Tests using segment identification. Vision Research, 47, 2825-2840.

Singh, M. and Fulvio, J. (2007). Bayesian contour extrapolation: Geometric determinants of good continuation. Vision Research, 47, 783-798.

Feldman, J. and Singh, M. (2006). Bayesian estimation of the shape skeleton. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 103 (47), 18014-18019.

Cohen, E. and Singh, M. (2006). Perceived orientation of complex shape reflects graded part decomposition. Journal of Vision, 6, 805-821.

Denisova, K., Singh, M., & Kowler, E. (2006). The role of part structure in the perceptual localization of a shape. Perception, 35, 1073-1087.

Fulvio, J. and Singh, M. (2006). Surface geometry influences the shape of illusory contours. Acta Psychologica, 123, 20-40.

Singh, M. and Fulvio, J. (2005). Visual extrapolation of contour geometry. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 102 (3), 939-944

Feldman, J. and Singh, M. (2005). Information along contours and object boundaries. Psychological Review, 112, 243-252.

Cohen, E., Barenholtz, E., Singh, M., & Feldman, J. (2005). What change detection tells us about the visual representation of shape. Journal of Vision, 5, 313-321.