Sam Ling /// attention + perception.

Curriculum Vita

Sam Ling

 

Office Address:      

Vanderbilt University

611 Wilson Hall

Nashville, TN 37209

E-mail: s.ling (at) vanderbilt.edu

Home Address:
4504 Wyoming Ave
Nashviile, Tennessee, 37209


me

 

Education:

Vanderbilt University, August 2007 – present

Postdoc in Psychological Sciences 

 

New York University, August 2001 – 2007

Ph.D. Program in Cognition & Perception   

 

Pennsylvania State University, Class of 2001

B.S. Psychology

Minor - Anthropology

 

Scholarships & Awards:

 

VVRC Training Grant, Vanderbilt University, NEI (2007-present)

NIH NRSA Kirchstein Predoctoral Fellowship, NIH (2004-2007)

Rauischholzhausen Summer School in Visual Neuroscience, Volkswagen-Stiftung (2006)

VSS Travel Award, Elsevier/Vision Research (2007)

Katzell Fellowship, New York University (2005)

MacCracken Fellowship, New York University (2001-2004)

GSAS Student Travel Grant, New York University (2003, 2005, 2007)

GSAS Summer Fellowship, New York University (2002, 2003)

 

Publications:

 

Pestilli, F., Ling., S. & Carrasco, M. (in press). A population-coding model of attention?s influence on contrast response: estimating neural effects from psychophysical data. Vision Research.

 

Carrasco, M., Fuller, S. & Ling, S. (in press).  Transient attention does increase perceived contrast of suprathreshold stimuli: A reply to Prinzmetal, Long and Leonhardt (2008). Perception & Psychophysics.

 

Ling, S., Liu, T. & Carrasco, M. (in press).  How spatial and feature-based attention affect the gain and tuning of population responses. Vision Research.

 

Ling, S. & Carrasco, M. (2007). Transient covert attention does alter appearance: a reply to Schneider (2006). Perception & Psychophysics.

 

Ling, S. & Carrasco, M. (2006). When sustained attention impairs perception. Nature Neuroscience. 9, 1243-1245.

 

Phelps, E., Ling, S. & Carrasco, M. (2006).  Emotion facilitates perception and boosts the perceptual benefits of attention. Psychological Science 17(4), 292-299.

 

Ling, S. & Carrasco, M. (2006). Sustained and transient covert attention enhance the signal via different contrast response functions. Vision Research. 46, 1210-1220.

 

Carrasco, M., Ling, S. & Read, S. (2004). Attention alters appearance. Nature Neuroscience. 7, 308-313.

 

Other :

 

Ling, S. (2007 March 20). "Attention Must Be Paid." In Mind Matters, the Scientific American blog on science and mind. http://blog.sciam.com/index.php?title=attention_must_be_paid. [Invited Contribution]

 

Talks :

 

Ling, S. (2007). How covert attention affects contrast sensitivity. Vanderbilt University. [Talk]

 

Ling, S. & Carrasco, M. (2006). When sustained attention impairs contrast sensitivity.  Vision Sciences, Sarasota. [Talk]

 

Ling, S. (2006). How covert attention affects contrast sensitivity. Johns Hopkins University. [Talk]

 

Abstracts & Posters :

   

Ling, S. & Blake, R. (2008). Suppression during binocular rivalry broadens tuning. Vision Sciences, Naples, FL. [Poster]

 

Ling, S. Liu, T. & Carrasco, M. (2007). How attention affects the gain and tuning of motion selective channels. Vision Sciences, Sarasota, FL. [Poster]

 

Pestilli, F., Ling, S., Carrasco, M. (2007) Attention and contrast: A model linking single-unit and psychophysical data. Vision Sciences Society, Sarasota, FL. [Poster]

 

Ling, S. Liu, T. & Carrasco, M. (2006). The influence of attention on motion selective channels: an equivalent noise approach. Vision Sciences, Sarasota, FL. [Poster]

 

Ling, S. & Carrasco, M. (2005). Contrast gain vs. response gain: Do sustained and transient covert attention exhibit different signature responses?  Vision Sciences, Sarasota, FL. [Poster]

 

Ling, S. Phelps, E., Holmes, B. & Carrasco, M. (2004).  Emotion facilitates perception and boosts the perceptual benefits of attention. Vision Sciences, Sarasota, FL[Poster] .

 

Fuller, S., Ling, S. & Carrasco, M.  (2004).  Attention increases perceived saturation.  Vision Sciences, Sarasota, FL. [Poster]

 

Ling, S. & Carrasco, M. (May 2003). Sustained and transient covert attention: a test for signal enhancement.  Vision Sciences, Sarasota, FL. [Poster]

 

Read, S., Ling, S. & Carrasco, M.  (May 2003). Covert Attention Alters Visual Appearance.  Vision Sciences, Sarasota, FL. [Poster]

     

Teaching Experience:

 

9/2003 – 12/2003           Graduate Teaching Assistant                           New York, NY

                                        New York University, Department of Psychology

                                        Course: Lab in Perception

                                        Instructor: Mike Landy, Ph.D.

 

7/2001 – 8/2001              Graduate Teaching Assistant                          New York, NY

                                        New York University, Department of Psychology

                                        Course: Perception

                                        Instructor: Cigdem Talgar, Ph.D.

 

1/2001 – 5/2001              Graduate Teaching Assistant                          New York, NY

                                        New York University, Department of Psychology

                                        Course: Introductory Psychology

                                        Instructor: Elizabeth Phelps, Ph.D.

 

Other Interests:

 

   Backpacking/camping, snowboarding, bicycling, guitar, dendrobates.

October 2, 2008 • Sam Ling Vanderbilt University