Dr. Alexander C. Huk has been chosen as the 2011 winner of the Elsevier/VSS Young Investigator Award. Dr. Huk is an Associate Professor of Neurobiology in the Center for Perceptual Systems at the University
of Texas at Austin. Dr. Huk impressed the committee with the broad range of techniques he has brought to
bear on fundamental questions of visual processing and decision making. Studying both human and non-human
primates with psychophysical, electrophysiological and fMRI approaches, Dr. Huk has made significant,
influential and ground-breaking contributions to our understanding of the neural mechanisms involved in
motion processing and the use of sensory information as a basis for perceptual decisions. His contributions
are outstanding in their breadth as well as their impact on the field and represent the uniqueness of the VSS
community to integrate behavioral and neural approaches to vision science.
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