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Carmel Levitan is a Senior Professor of Psychology at Occidental College. Her research integrates visual perception, cognitive science, and experimental social psychology, with a focus on crossmodal illusory perception, multisensory integration, and Bayesian causal inference. Recent work explores neural correlates of crossmodal illusions, multisensory filling-in at the blind spot, and the impact of slow-looking in art galleries on well-being. She also leads large-scale, cross-cultural replication studies, including investigations of object orientation effects across 18 languages and default gender biases. Her scholarship emphasizes undergraduate research and educational engagement, contributing to open science and international collaborative projects.
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