Science Distilled: Is seeing believing?

Mary Cablk, PhD, is a remote sensing scientist with expertise in canine detection and image analysis. For twenty years she has been collecting data using detection dogs, and simultaneously studying their capabilities outside of laboratory conditions. This forced her to learn about humans and human perception, as the relationship between handler and dog adds complexity to research. She pioneers methods to reduce the complexity inherent in using dog-handler teams, to be able to document the capability of detection dogs.

Dr. Caplovitz is a cognitive neuroscientist who researches the principles and neural mechanisms that underlie how we visually experience the world. He received his Ph.D. in Cognitive Neuroscience from Dartmouth College and did post-doctoral training at Princeton University. He has over 20 years of experience researching the brain using a combination of behavioral and non-invasive neuroimaging techniques. In addition, Dr. Caplovitz has formal training in computational mathematics with a Master’s degree from the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences and has completed internships at the Naval Undersea Warfare Center, AT&T Bell Laboratories and Lucent Technologies. He has received funding for his research from the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health and is currently an Associate Professor of Psychology at UNR and the Director of the Cognitive and Brain Science Graduate Program.