Hey. I'm Jordan Suchow, a grad student in cognitive science at Harvard, studying how brains, minds, and machines process visual information.

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Curriculum vitae

An academic history; a biographical sketch.

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Learning to detect and combine the features of an object, in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2012.

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Motion silences awareness of visual change, in Current Biology, 2011.

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The MemToolbox is a collection of MATLAB functions for modeling visual working memory.

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Figured (http://figured.io) is helping to make science communication more beautiful, lucid, and intelligible by means of thoughtful design.

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NPG's policy on authorship, in Nature, 2011.

Nature Publishing Group announces a ban on human authorship. pdf

Which kinds of motion silence awareness of visual change? Poster at VSS 2011.

Background, local, and illusory motion produce silencing.

Zipf.it: analysis of iTunes listening.

Do song-listening habits follow Zipf's law?

Seeing things: visual perception research at NYU
Imagine magazine.

In high school (and also as an undergrad), I worked in Denis Pelli's lab at NYU. Hoping to encourage other students to give research a try, I wrote this piece.

Random walk blocks
Pretty blocks created by superimposing smoothed random walks painted in transparent colors.

LaTeX template for Harvard thesis

code, sample pdf

The disembodied eye
A visual party trick. When looking at an upside down face, the eyes eventually appear to flip right-side up, giving the eerie impression that they no longer belong to the face.

Water poem
A poem I wrote (well, dictated really) when I was four.