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Alan Stocker

Associate Professor Emeritus

University of Pennsylvania

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School of Arts & Sciences

Psychology

Alan Stocker is currently serving as a Psychology Associate Professor Emeritus at University of Pennsylvania.

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University of Pennsylvania

Associate Professor Emeritus

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The Resource-Rational Dynamics of Evidence Accumulation. bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) (2026)

laboratory investigationenvironmental researchenvironmental sciencesynthetic ecology

A Linear Perception-Action Mapping Accounts for Response Range-Dependent Biases in Heading Estimation From Optic Flow. PLoS Computational Biology (2025)

visual sciencevisual perceptionvision researchvisual systemmachine visionresponse range-dependent biasesvisual processingcognitive sciencevisual pathwaysneuroscienceoptic flow

Categorical Representations in Sequential Evidence Accumulation. Journal of Vision (2025)

evidential reasoningsemanticsapproximate reasoningsequential learningcategory theoryinductive inferenceinferencecognitive sciencesequential evidence accumulationautomated reasoning

Category-Level Stimulus Representations Induce Similar Biases in Both Retrospective and Prospective Perceptual Decision-Tasks. Journal of Vision (2025)

cognitive neurosciencememorycategory-level stimulus representationsexperimental psychologycognitionhuman cognitionbehavioral decision makingbehavioral sciencesbehavioural processcognitive scienceprospective perceptual decision-taskssimilar biasespsychologyanimal cognitionassociative memory (psychology)memory studiesbehavioral experimentshuman decision processapplied cognitive psychology

Confirmation Bias Through Selective Readout of Information Encoded in Human Parietal Cortex. Nature Communications (2025)

cognitive neuroscienceselective readoutbehavioural processhuman brainhuman parietal cortexsystems neuroscienceanimal cognitionpredictive codingbrain functioncognitive scienceconfirmation biasapplied cognitive psychologyneurosciencecognitionpsychological sciencehuman cognition

Encoding Fidelity of Flicker Frequency Does Not Differ by Post-Receptoral Direction or Photopic Light Level. Journal of Vision (2025)

flicker frequencyvisual sciencelightingophthalmologyvision researchphotoreceptor cellslight regulationphotopic light levelpost-receptoral directionvisual systemvisual perceptionvisual pathwaysneurosciencelight sciencephotonics

Holistic Bayesian Model of Perceptual Adaptation That Combines Efficient Coding and Novelty Detection. Journal of Vision (2025)

visual sciencevisual perceptionvision researchvisual systemvisual processingcognitive science

Noisy Template Matching: A Mechanistic Model of Approximate Number Perception. Underline Science Inc. (2025)

pattern analysisimage similaritycomputer visionnoisy template matchingmachine visionpattern recognitionpattern matchingapplied mathematicsimage representationcomputer sciencepattern recognition application

The Tilt Illusion Arises From an Efficient Reallocation of Neural Coding Resources at the Contextual Boundary. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2025)

Ling-Qi ZhangJiang MaoGeoffrey K. AguirreAlan A. Stocker

cognitive neurosciencetilt illusion arisescomputational neurosciencebrain organizationsystems neuroscienceneural coding resourcescontextual boundarycognitive scienceefficient reallocationneuroscience

Adaptation Optimizes Sensory Encoding of Future Stimuli. bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) (2024)

Jiang MaoConstantin RothkopfAlan A. Stocker

cognitive neuroscienceadaptationsensory encodingfuture stimulineuroscience

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Alan Stocker

Associate Professor Emeritus

University of Pennsylvania

Affiliations

School of Arts & Sciences

Psychology

Alan Stocker is currently serving as a Psychology Associate Professor Emeritus at University of Pennsylvania.

Honors

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Experiences

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Alan Stocker

University of Pennsylvania

Associate Professor Emeritus

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Video Presentations

Notable Scholarly Works

Notable Federal Grants

Collaborators

The Resource-Rational Dynamics of Evidence Accumulation. bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) (2026)

laboratory investigationenvironmental researchenvironmental sciencesynthetic ecology

A Linear Perception-Action Mapping Accounts for Response Range-Dependent Biases in Heading Estimation From Optic Flow. PLoS Computational Biology (2025)

visual sciencevisual perceptionvision researchvisual systemmachine visionresponse range-dependent biasesvisual processingcognitive sciencevisual pathwaysneuroscienceoptic flow

Categorical Representations in Sequential Evidence Accumulation. Journal of Vision (2025)

evidential reasoningsemanticsapproximate reasoningsequential learningcategory theoryinductive inferenceinferencecognitive sciencesequential evidence accumulationautomated reasoning

Category-Level Stimulus Representations Induce Similar Biases in Both Retrospective and Prospective Perceptual Decision-Tasks. Journal of Vision (2025)

Confirmation Bias Through Selective Readout of Information Encoded in Human Parietal Cortex. Nature Communications (2025)

Encoding Fidelity of Flicker Frequency Does Not Differ by Post-Receptoral Direction or Photopic Light Level. Journal of Vision (2025)

Holistic Bayesian Model of Perceptual Adaptation That Combines Efficient Coding and Novelty Detection. Journal of Vision (2025)

visual sciencevisual perceptionvision researchvisual systemvisual processingcognitive science

Noisy Template Matching: A Mechanistic Model of Approximate Number Perception. Underline Science Inc. (2025)

The Tilt Illusion Arises From an Efficient Reallocation of Neural Coding Resources at the Contextual Boundary. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2025)

Ling-Qi ZhangJiang MaoGeoffrey K. AguirreAlan A. Stocker

cognitive neurosciencetilt illusion arisescomputational neurosciencebrain organizationsystems neuroscienceneural coding resourcescontextual boundarycognitive scienceefficient reallocationneuroscience

Adaptation Optimizes Sensory Encoding of Future Stimuli. bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) (2024)

Jiang MaoConstantin RothkopfAlan A. Stocker

cognitive neuroscienceadaptationsensory encodingfuture stimulineuroscience

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