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The best thing that we're put here for's to see. -The Star-Splitter, Robert Frost Daniel J. Graham
Assistant Professor
Department of Psychology
Hobart and William Smith Colleges
Geneva, NY 14456 USA
Email: artstats at
gmail d0t com or mylastname@hws.edu |
RESEARCH SUMMARY
I study perceptual processing in humans from a variety of perspectives, focusing on natural vision. Much of my work focuses on aspects of visual perception that are instantiated in artwork, and in artists themselves. Artwork forms a useful and interesting class of natural stimuli, one created exclusively for the human eye, and only by humans. My research employs computational and behavioral experimental methods in order to help elucidate the nature of neural processing.
Key questions my work addresses include:
o How does human aesthetic sense develop, and how is it affected by mental disorders such as AlzheimerÕs disease?
o How do artists judge size, color, and light intensity in the world so that they can represent these quantities on canvas?
o Do human artists produce representations that are efficiently processed by the visual system, and if so, what can this tell us about neural processing in humans?
o How do mental illnesses such as schizophrenia affect visual representations in artwork?
o How do humans capture high dynamic range scenes such as landscapes in a recognizable way using paint?
o What visual attributes and statistical properties constitute artistic style, and can style be modeled computationally?
o What can we learn about cortical processing from network theoretic principles of dynamic routing?
I was previously a postdoc in the laboratory of Helmut Leder at the University of Vienna. Collaborators include Dan Rockmore, James Hughes, Jay Friedenberg, Anjan Chatterjee, David Field, James Cutting, and Chris Redies.
á Education
Ph.D., Psychology, 2008 Cornell University (Advisor: David Field)
M.S., Physics, 2004 Cornell University
B.A., Physics, 2001 Middlebury College
á Publications (click paper title for pdf)
2015
26. Graham,
D. J., Schwarz, B., Chatterjee, A. and Leder, H. 2015. Preference for luminance histogram regularities in
natural scenes. Vision Research [Special Issue on Environmental Statistics]. In Press. Supplemental
Data
2014
25. Pugach, C., Daley, E., Leder, H. and Graham. D. J. 2014. Aesthetic
stability in development. In: Proceedings of the International Association
for Empirical Aesthetics Biennial Congress 2014, New York, NY. ISBN: 0-692-29396-5.
24. Graham, D. J. 2014.
Routing
in the brain. Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience 8:44.
23. Graham,
D. J., Pallett, P. M., Meng, M. and Leder, H. 2014. Representation
and aesthetics of the human face in portraiture. Art & Perception,
2(1-2), 75-98.
(published pdf available with free
registration) Preprint
2013
22. Graham,
D. J. 2013. Integrating holism and reductionism in the science of art
perception. Behavioral
and Brain Sciences, 36(2),
145-146.
21. Graham,
D. J., Stockinger, S. and Leder, H. 2013 An island of stability: art images and natural
scenes—but not natural faces—show consistent aesthetic response in
AlzheimerÕs-related dementia.
Frontiers
in Psychology 4:107.
2011
20. Graham, D. J.
2011. Visual Perception: Lightness in a High Dynamic Range World.
Current
Biology 21(22), R914-R916.
19. Graham, D. J. and
Rockmore, D. N. 2011. The
packet switching brain. Journal
of Cognitive Neuroscience, 23 (2), 267-276.
18. Graham, D. J. and
Meng, M. 2011. Artistic
representations: clues to efficient coding in human vision. Visual
Neuroscience 28, 371-379 [Special
Issue on
comparative, ecological and
developmental aspects of visual system design and function]
17. Graham, D. J. and
Meng, M. 2011. Altered
spatial frequency content in paintings by artists with schizophrenia. i-Perception
2 (1), 1-9.
16. Graham, D. J.,
Hughes, J. M., Leder, H. and Rockmore, D. N. 2011. Statistics, vision, and the analysis of artistic style.
WIREs
Comput. Stat. (Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews-Computational Statistics)
4,
115–123. doi: 10.1002/wics.197.
15. Hughes, J. M., Graham,
D. J., Jacobsen, C. R. and Rockmore, D. N. 2011. Comparing higher-order spatial statistics and perceptual
judgments in the stylometric analysis of art. Proceedings of EUSIPCO 2011 (19th
European Signal Processing Conference), Barcelona, ESP.
2010
14. Graham, D. J.
and Redies, C. 2010 Statistical
regularities in art: Relations with visual coding and perception. Vision
Research 50 (16) 1503-1509.
13. Hughes, J. M., Graham,
D. J. and Rockmore, D. N. Quantification of
artistic style through sparse coding analysis in the drawings of Pieter Bruegel
the Elder. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 107,
1279-1283.
MEDIA COVERAGE OF PNAS PAPER: Nature,
NPR,
BBC, Science
News, IEEE
Spectrum, Ars
Technica, Physics
World, NH Union
Leader, Valley News,
The Dartmouth, Press Release
12. Graham, D. J.,
Friedenberg, J. D., Rockmore, D. N. and Field, D. J. 2010. Mapping the similarity space
of paintings: image statistics and visual perception. Visual Cognition 18 (4), 559-573.
11. Graham, D. J.,
Friedenberg, J. D., McCandless, C. H. and Rockmore, D. N. 2010. Preference for artwork:
Similarity, statistics, and selling price. Proc. SPIE: Human Vision and
Electronic Imaging 7527,
75271A.
10. Hughes, J. M., Graham,
D. J. and Rockmore, D. N. 2010. Stylometrics of
artwork: Uses and limitations. Proc. SPIE: Computer Vision and Image
Analysis of Art 7531, 75310C.
2009
9. Graham, D. J. 2009.
Art statistics and visual
processing: Insights for Picture Coding. Proceedings
of the Picture Coding Symposium 2009, Chicago, IL.
8. Graham, D. J.,
Friedenberg, J. D. and Rockmore, D. N. 2009. Efficient visual
system processing of spatial and luminance statistics in representational and
non-representational art. Proc. SPIE: Human Vision and Electronic
Imaging 7240, 72401N.
2008
7. Graham, D. J. and
Field, D. J. 2008. Global
nonlinear luminance compression in painted art. Proc. SPIE: Computer Image
Analysis in the Study of Art 6810,
68100K.
6. Graham, D. J. and
Field, D. J. 2008. Variations in
intensity statistics for representational and abstract art, and for art from
the eastern and western hemispheres. Perception 37, 1341-1352.
5. Graham, D. J. and
Field, D. J. 2008. Natural images:
coding efficiency. In Encyclopedia of Neuroscience ed. Larry R. Squire. Academic Press,
Oxford.
2004
- 2007
4. Graham, D. J.
and Field, D. J. 2007. Statistical regularities
of art images and natural scenes: Spectra, sparseness and nonlinearities. Spatial
Vision 21, 149-164.
3. Graham, D. J.,
Chandler, D. M. and Field, D. J. 2006. Can the theory
of "whitening" explain the center-surround properties of retinal
ganglion cell receptive fields? Vision Research 46, 2901-2913.
2. Graham, D. J.
and Field, D. J. 2006. Sparse coding in the
neocortex. In Evolution of Nervous Systems ed. Jon H. Kaas and Leah A.
Krubitzer. Elsevier, Vol. III, pp. 181-187.
1. Cuesta-Lopez, S., Peyrard, M. and Graham, D. J. 2005. Model for DNA hairpin denaturation.
European
Physical Journal E-Soft Matter 16,
235-246.
á Theses
Graham, D.
J. 2008. The relationship between efficient
coding of natural scenes in the human visual system and statistical
regularities in art. Doctoral Thesis, Department of Psychology, Cornell
University.
Graham, D.
J. 2004. Efficient retinal
ganglion cell coding and the statistics of natural scenes. Master's Thesis,
Department of Physics, Cornell University.
á Teaching
In Fall, I typically teach PSY 100: Introduction to Psychology and PSY 309: Topics in Sensory Perception (Focus on Art and Human Vision). In Spring, I typically teach Sensation and Perception (PSY 299) and Research in Sensory Perception (PSY 310).
á Book Reviews
Graham, D.
J. 2012 EvolutionÕs Witness.
Perception 41, 755-756.
Graham, D. J. 2012 The Evolution of the Eye from Algae
and Jellyfish to Humans. Perception
41, 626-627.
Graham, D. J. 2004.
In the Blink of an Eye. American
Paleontologist 12, 13-17.
á Selected Abstracts
Graham, D. J., Schwarz, B., Chatterjee, A., and Leder, H. (2013, May). Preference for higher-order luminance regularities in natural scenes. Vision Sciences Society, Naples, FL.
Graham, D. J. and Meng, M. 2011. Lightness perception in artists. Vision Sciences Society 2011, Naples, FL.
Graham, D. J., Friedenberg, J. D. and Rockmore, D. N. Mathematics, Perception, and the Visual Arts: New Perspectives, talk at MathPsych 2009 (Society for Mathematical Psychology), Aug 2009.
Graham, D. J., Friedenberg, J. D., Rockmore, D. N. and Field, D. J. 2008. Mapping the similarity space of paintings: Is there a role for image statistics? ECVP 2008 Utrecht, NL.
Graham, D. J. and Field, D. J. 2008. Global nonlinear compression of natural luminances in painted art. SPIE Electronic Imaging Conference on Computer Image Analysis in the Study of Art, San Jose CA.
Cutting, J. E., Graham, D. J. and Field, D. J. 2008. From a neuroesthetics to a neuroarthistory. Annual Conference of the College Art Association, Dallas TX.
Graham, D. J., Page, K. B. and Field, D. J. 2006. Relating nonlinearities to statistical regularities in paintings. Perception 35 supplement for ECVP.
Graham, D. J. Chandler, D. M. and Field, D. J. 2005. How alike are natural scenes and paintings? Characterizing the spatial statistical properties of a set of digitized, grey-scale images of painted art. Perception 34 supplement for ECVP.
Graham, D. J., Chandler, D. M. and Field, D. J. 2004. Decorrelation and response equalization with center-surround receptive fields. Journal of Vision 4, 276a.
á Invited Talks (selected)
The Packet Switching Brain: A Hypothesis, Redwood Neuroscience Institute Seminar, University of California, Berkeley, Nov 2009. VIDEO.
The Efficient Artist: Statistical Regularities in Art and Their Relationships with Visual Coding, Oxyopia Lecture Series, University of California, Berkeley, School of Optometry, Nov 2009. VIDEO.
Art and Efficient Visual Representation, Colloquium Speaker, Department of Mathematics, Middlebury College, Sept 2009.
Invited Panelist, Special Session on Visual Attention, Artistic Intent and Efficient Coding, Picture Coding Symposium, Chicago, IL, May 2009.
Stylometric analysis of Van Gogh using methods inspired by early visual system neural coding. Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands, Oct 2008. (part of IP4AI)
Statistical Regularities in Paintings: Connections to Visual Coding and Perception, Friedrich-Schiller-University, Jena, Germany, Sept 2008.
Relationships Between Human Visual Coding and Painted Art, Applied and Computational Mathematics Seminar, Dartmouth College, Feb 2008.
The Illuminated World: Art and the Visual System, Art for Lunch, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, April 2007.
á Support and Awards
2008-2009: William H. Neukom 1964 Institute for
Computational Science
2008-2010: National Science Foundation Small Grant for
Exploratory Research DMS-0746667
2007: ProvostÕs Diversity Fellowship, Cornell University
2004-2007: National Institutes of Health Kirschstein-NRSA
Traineeship (Individual) EY015393
2002: NSF Locnet Fellowship, Ecole Normale Superieure, Lyon,
France
2001-2004: NSF IGERT Program in Nonlinear Dynamics
Fellowship, Cornell University
á Writing for Non-scientists
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á Links
Science For Everyone: A conference of science writers, including Robert Krulwich and Janna Levin, that I organized at Cornell in May 2004.
Noah Graham (my brother) studies quantum mechanics and teaches physics at my alma mater, Middlebury College.
Updated 16 June 2015