Sadr, Javid

Faculty

Psychology Department

Phone
(403) 332-4530
Email
sadr@uleth.ca

Biography


Ph.D. in Systems and Computational Neuroscience
Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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http://neurotree.org/neurotree/tree.php?pid=2605

Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow / Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Vision Sciences Laboratory, Department of Psychology
Harvard University

Assistant Professor, Behavioural Neuroscience
Department of Psychology
University of Massachusetts Boston

Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology
Associate Member, Department of Neuroscience
University of Lethbridge

Publications


Sadr, J. & Krowicki, L. (in press) Face Perception Loves a Challenge: Less Information Sparks More Attraction. Vision Research, Special Issue: Face Perception.

Sadr, J. & Taylor, A. (2018) From Action to Perception: Empirical Studies of Film Acting and Viewing. Society for Cognitive Studies of the Moving Image (SCSMI), Bozeman, USA.

Sadr, J. (2018) A Light on Learning: Teaching from First Principles. A Light on Teaching, 2018-2019 (ISSN 2292-0161), pp. 9-13 and 23-24.

Sadr, J. & Taylor, A. (2017) Accounting for Acting: Generating and Recognizing 'Reality Effects' in Film Performance. Society for Cognitive Studies of the Moving Image (SCSMI), Helsinki, Finland.

Taylor, A. & Sadr, J. (2015) Screen Acting and Embodied Cognition. Society for Cognitive Studies of the Moving Image (SCSMI), London, UK.

Sadr, J. (2012) Turn off das Blinkenlights and Show Me Your Sitzfleisch. In John R. Vokey & Scott W. Allen (Eds.), Psychological Sketches (pp. 210-225).

Sadr, J. (2012) Person Perception: Attributions and Impressions, Biases and Prophecies. In John R. Vokey & Scott W. Allen (Eds.), Psychological Sketches (pp. 226-234).

Willenbockel, V., Sadr, J., Fiset, D., Horne, G., Gosselin, F. & Tanaka, J.W. (2010) Controlling Low-Level Image Properties: The SHINE Toolbox. Behavior Research Methods, 42(3), 671-684.

Mack, M.L., Gauthier, I., Sadr, J. & Palmeri, T.J. (2008) Object Detection and Basic-Level Categorization: Sometimes You Know It is There Before You Know What It Is. Psychological Bulletin & Review, 15, 28-35.

Sadr, J., Troje, N.F. & Nakayama, K. (2006) Axes vs Averages: High-Level Representations of Dynamic Point-Light Forms. Visual Cognition, 14, 119-122.

Troje, N.F., Sadr, J., Geyer, H. & Nakayama, K. (2006) Adaptation After-Effects in the Perception of Gender from Biological Motion. Journal of Vision, 6(8), 850-857.

Sadr, J. & Sinha, P. (2004) Object Recognition and Random Image Structure Evolution. Cognitive Science, 28, 259-287.

Sadr, J., Jarudi, I. & Sinha, P. (2003) The Role of Eyebrows in Face Recognition. Perception, 32, 285-293.

Sadr, J., Mukherjee, S., Thoresz, K. & Sinha, P. (2002) The Fidelity of Local Ordinal Encoding. In T. Dietterich, S. Becker & Z. Ghahramani (Eds.), Neural Information Processing Systems 14. MIT Press.

Sadr, J. & Sinha, P. (March 2001) Exploring Object Perception with Random Image Structure Evolution. MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory Memo No. 2001-06.

Creative Works


RISEing clouds, for Nature Neuroscience: http://www.nature.com/neuro/journal/v5/n9/covers/index.html

In The Media


Sadr, J. (2015, Sept 2) Why Do We Have Eyebrows? The Social Significance of our Silent Communicators. The Independent Online. https://tinyurl.com/gqs4yr7

https://www.inverse.com/article/22818-date-horror-movies-science-misattribution-of-arousal

http://www.southwestthemagazine.com/watching-grass-grow

http://www.vogue.com.au/beauty/news/science+says+your+brows+might+actually+be+the+key+to+saving+your+love+life,41865

https://www.inverse.com/article/20401-slow-tv-netflix-norway-physiology-neurology-javid-sadr-brain

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/love-sex-and-babies/201107/the-real-purpose-eyebrows

https://www.inverse.com/article/19322-jared-leto-joker-suicide-squad-eyebrows