Andrew Silva
Andrew Silva
Doctoral Student
NSF Graduate Research Fellow
Cognitive Neuroscience, Department of Psychology, UCLA
B.A., Psychology, UC Irvine, magna cum laude
M.A., Psychology, UCLA
Contact Information
aesilva@ucla.edu
Research Interests
My research interests include visual motion processing and perceptual learning, multisensory integration and learning, and underlying neural mechanisms of visual and audio-visual perception.
Publications and Conference Papers
Barakat, B.K., Silva, A.E., Jimenez, L.O., & Shams, L. (In Preparation). Audiovisual congruency increases explicit learning in a serial reaction time task.
Silva, A.E., & Liu, Z. (2015). Opponent backgrounds reduce discrimination sensitivity to competing motions: Effects of different vertical motions on horizontal motion perception. Vision Research, 133,55-64 doi: 10.1016/j.visres.2015.05.007
Silva, A.E., & Chubb, C. (2014). The 3-dimensional, 4-channel model of human visual sensitivity to grayscale scrambles. Vision Research, 101, 94-107. doi: 10.1016/j.visres.2014.06.001
Guan, H., Lee, M.D., & Silva, A. (2014). Threshold models of human decision making on optimal stopping problems in different environments. In Bello, P., Guarini, M., McShane, M., & Scassellati, B. (Eds), Proceedings of the 36th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Sciences Society. 553-558. Austin, TX: Cognitive Sciences Society.
Chubb, C., Dickson, C.A., Dean, T., Fagan, C., Mann, D.S., Wright, C.E., Guan, M., Silva, A.E., Gregersen, P., & Kowaslky, E. (2013). Bimodal distribution of performance in discriminating major/minor modes. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 134(4), 3067-3078. doi:10.1121/1.4816546
Presentations
Silva, A.E., & Liu, Z. [poster]. The effects of different orientations of in-phase and counter-phase backgrounds on horizontal motion discrimination. Vision Sciences Society 14th Annual Meeting. St. Pete Beach, FL, May 2015.
Silva, A.E., Barakat, B.K., Jimenez, L., & Shams, L. [poster]. Audiovisual congruency increases explicit learning in a serial reaction time task. International Multisensory Research Forum, Pisa, IT, June 2015.
Silva, A.E., & Liu, Z. [poster]. Vertical opponency modulates sensitivity to horizontal motion. Vision Sciences Society 13th Annual Meeting. St. Pete Beach, FL, May 2014.
Guan, M., Silva, A.E., & Lee, M.D. [poster]. Threshold models of human decision-making on optimal stopping problems in different environments. Society for Mathematical Psychology 46th Annual Meeting. Potsdam, Germany, August 2013.
Chubb, C., Silva, A. E. [talk presented by 1st author]. The four human visual mechanisms sensitive to gray scale scrambles. Vision Sciences Society 12th Annual Meeting. Naples, FL, May 2013.
Silva, A.E., Lee, M.D., Gorbunov, M., & Li, A. [poster]. Framing and adaptation effects in optimal stopping problems. Society for Mathematical Psychology 45th Annual Meeting. Columbus, OH, June 2012.
Silva, A.E. [talk].Visual search asymmetry in luminance, contrast, and blackshot texture discrimination. UCI Undergraduate Research Symposium, May 2012