Haluk Ogmen received B.Sc.A. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Université Laval, Québec , Canada in 1983 and 1988, respectively. He joined the University of Houston in 1988 as an assistant professor. He spent the 1995-1996 academic year at the Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute in San Francisco , CA as a visiting scientist. Presently he is Professor and Chair of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Executive Director of the Center for Neuro-Engineering and Cognitive Science. He is a member of the Central Visual Processing Study Section (CVP), Center for Scientific Review, National Institutes of Health. He is an Honorary Visiting Professor of Computational Neuroscience, at the University of Bradford , Bradford , U.K. He received several teaching awards including the College of Engineering W.T. Kittenger Outstanding Teacher award in 1998. He received the Junior and Senior Faculty Research Awards from the College in 1994 and 2003, respectively. He was recently selected as a Fellow of the Hanse Wissenschaftskolleg (Hanse Institute for Advanced Study) in Germany .

-• Research and Academics

Areas: Neuro-engineering, vision, visual psychophysics, sensory-motor control, computational neuroscience.
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-• Selected Publications

Yilmaz, O., S.P. Tripathy, S.S. Patel, and H. Ogmen, “Attraction of Flashes to Moving Dots,” Vision Research, vol. 47, 2603–2615, 2007.

Ogmen, H., “A Theory of Moving Form Perception: Synergy between Masking, Perceptual Grouping, and Motion Computation in Retinotopic and Non-retinotopic Representations,” Advances in Cognitive Psychology, vol. 3, 67–84, 2007.

Breitmeyer, B.G., T. Ro, H. Ogmen, and S. Todd, “Unconscious, Stimulus-dependent and Conscious, Percept-dependent Priming with Chromatic Stimuli,” Perception & Psychophysics, vol. 69, 550–557, 2007.

Scharnowski, F., F. Hermens, T. Kammer, H. Ogmen, and M.H. Herzog, “Feature Fusion Reveals Slow and Fast Memories,” Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, vol. 19, 632–641, 2007.

Breitmeyer, B.G. and H. Ogmen, “Visual Masking,” Scholarpedia, vol. 2, 3330, 2007.

T. Bachmann, B. G. Breitmeyer, H. Ogmen "Experimental Phenomena of Consciousness: A Brief Dictionary ", Oxford University Press: New York, N.Y. (in press).

H. Ogmen, B. G. Breitmeyer (Eds.) "The First Half Second: The Microgenesis and Temporal Dynamics of Unconscious and Conscious Visual Processes", MIT Press: Cambridge, MA (2006).

B. G. Breitmeyer, H. Ogmen "Visual Masking: Time Slices through Conscious and Unconscious Vision", (2nd edition), Oxford University Press: Oxford, U.K. (2006).

H. Ogmen, B. G. Breitmeyer, S. Todd, L. Mardon, “Target Recovery in Metacontrast : The Effect of Contrast”, Vision Research, vol. 46, pp. 4726-4734, 2006.

T. Otto, H. Ogmen, M. H. Herzog, “The Flight Path of the Phoenix : The Visible Trace of Invisible Elements in Human Vision”, Journal of Vision, vol. 6, pp. 1079-1086, 2006.

H. Ogmen, T. Otto, M. H. Herzog, “Perceptual Grouping Induces Non-retinotopic Feature Attribution in Human Vision”, Vision Research, vol. 46, pp. 3234-3242, 2006.

B. G. Breitmeyer, H. Kafaligonul, H. Ogmen, L. Mardon, S. Todd, R. Ziegler, “Meta- and Paracontrast Reveal Differences Between Contour- and Contrast-Processing Mechanisms", Vision Research, vol. 46, pp. 2645-2658, 2006.

B. G. Breitmeyer, H. Ogmen, J. Ramon, J. Chen, "Unconscious Priming by Form and their Parts", Visual Cognition, vol. 12, pp. 720-736, 2005.

H. Ogmen, S. S. Patel, H. E. Bedell, K. Camuz, "Differential Latencies and the Dynamics of the Position Computation Process for Moving Targets, Assessed with the Flash-Lag Effect", Vision Research, vol. 44, pp. 2109-2128, 2004. 

B. G. Breitmeyer, T. Ro, H. Ogmen, "A Comparison of Masking by Visual and Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation: Implications for the Study of Conscious and Unconscious Visual Processing", Consciousness and Cognition, vol. 13, pp. 829-843, 2004.

B. G. Breitmeyer, H. Ogmen, J. Chen, "Unconscious Priming by Color and Form: Different Processes and Levels", Consciousness and Cognition, vol. 13, pp. 138-157, 2004.

G. Purushothaman, H. Ogmen, H. E. Bedell, "Suprathreshold Intrinsic Dynamics of the Human Visual System", Neural Computation, vol. 15, pp. 2883-2908, 2003.

S. S. Patel, M. T. Ukwade, S. B. Stevenson, H. E. Bedell, V. Sampath, H. Ogmen, "Stereoscopic Depth Perception from Oblique Phase Disparities", Vision Research, 43, pp 2479-2492, 2003.

H. E. Bedell, S. T. Chung, H. Ogmen, S. S. Patel, "Color and Motion: Which is the Tortoise and which is the Hare?", Vision Research, vol. 43, pp. 2403-2412, 2003.

H. Ogmen, B. G. Breitmeyer, R. Melvin, "The What and Where in Visual Masking", Vision Research, vol. 43, pp. 1337-1350, 2003.

S. X. Yang, H. Ogmen, G. Maguire, "Neural Computations in the Tiger Salamander and Mudpuppy Retinae and an Analysis of GABA Action from Horizontal Cells", Biological Cybernetics, vol. 88, pp. 450-458, 2003.

G. Purushothaman, D. Lacassagne, H. E. Bedell, H. Ogmen, "Effect of Exposure Duration, Contrast and Base Blur on Coding and Discrimination of Edges", Spatial Vision, vol. 15, pp. 341-376, 2002.

G. Zhang, G. Bayramoglu, J. Liu, H. Ogmen, "Analogue Integrated-Circuit Design for Sustained Neurons in a Fly", Electronics Letters, vol. 37, pp. 867-868, 2001.

S. S. Patel, B. Jiang, H. Ogmen, "Vergence Dynamics Predicts Fixation Disparity", Neural Computation, vol. 13, pp. 1495-1525, 2001.

S. S. Patel, H. Ogmen, H. E. Bedell, V. Sampath, "Flash-lag Effect: Differential Latency, Not Postdiction", Science, vol. 290, p. 1051a, 2000.

G. Purushothaman, H. Ogmen, H. E. Bedell, "Gamma-range Oscillations in Backward-masking Functions and their Putative Neural Correlates", Psychological Review, vol. 107, pp. 556-577, 2000.

B. G. Breitmeyer, H. Ogmen, "Recent Models and Findings in Backward Visual Masking: A Comparison, Review, and Update", Perception & Psychophysics, vol. 62, pp. 1572-1595, 2000.

J. Carvajal, G. Chen, H. Ogmen, "Fuzzy PID Controller: Design, Performance Evaluation, and Stability Analysis", Information Sciences, vol. 123, pp. 249-270, 2000.