Russell Epstein is a professor of psychology at the

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, who studies neural mechanisms underlying visual scene perception, event perception, object recognition, and spatial navigation in humans. His lab studies the role of the Parahippocampal and retrosplenial cortices in determining how people orient themselves relative to their surroundings.

Education

Epstein received an undergraduate degree in physics at the

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and a Ph.D. in computer vision with Alan Yuille at

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/ref> He also held postdoctoral fellowships with Nancy Kanwisher (1997-1999) at MIT and John Duncan (1999-2001) at the MRC-CBU.

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