EDUCATION

PhD in Vision Science, University of California, Berkeley. Expected graduation in Dec. 2006.

BA in Biological Anthropology and Psychology, Harvard University. Graduated magna cum laude in June 1996.

PUBLICATIONS & ABSTRACTS

MacNeilage, Berger, Banks, Buelthoff. A Bayesiuan model for the disambiguation of gravitoinertial force by visual cues. Experimental Brain Research. Under review. Submitted Nov. 2005.

MacNeilage, Levitan, Banks. Relative weights of static and dynamic visual cues in the perception of body orientation. Vision sciences society conference, poster. Sarasota, Florida. May, 2006.

MacNeilage, Levitan, Banks. Do pursuit eye movements improve discrimination of object speed? Society for neuroscience conference, poster presentation. Washington DC. Nov. 2005

MacNeilage, Levitan, Banks. A cue-combination model for perception of body orientation. European conference of visual perception, poster presentation. A Coruna, Spain. Aug. 2005.

MacNeilage, Banks. Detection of object-motion during self-motion is predicted by local motion differences and deviation from the focus of expansion. Applied perception and graphics visualization conference, poster presentation. A Coruna, Spain. Aug. 2005.

MacNeilage, Berger, Banks, Buelthoff. Visual cues are used to disambiguate gravitoinertial force. Vision sciences society conference, talk. Sarasota, Florida. May, 2004.

MacNeilage, Berger, van der Heyde, Banks, Buelthoff. Do visual cues influence perception of earth vertical? Technical report #116. Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tuebingen, Germany. Aug. 2003.

Sibigtroth, Banks, MacNeilage. Do otoliths contribute to path perception in a heading estimation task? Vision sciences society conference, poster presentation. Sarasota, Florida. May, 2002. 

Hauser, MacNeilage, Ware. Numerical representations in primates. Proceedings of the national academy of sciences, USA. Vol. 93, 1514-1517 (1996)

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Cognitive Neuroscience. Psychology 127. Graduate student instructor, Fall 2005. UC Berkeley.

Perception. Psychology 126. Guest lecture on complex motion. Fall 2004. UC Berkeley.

Anatomy and Physiology of the Eye. Vision Science 106. Graduate student instructor, Fall 2001, 2002. UC Berkeley. 

ADDITIONAL WORK EXPERIENCE

 Product development specialist, NBC Internet. May 2000-April 2001. San Francisco, CA.

 Software development assistant, Nolo Press. Nov. 1998-March 2000. Berkeley, CA.

 Web editor, Worldtrek.org. Aug. 1999-Aug. 2000. San Francisco, CA.

 Associate editor, Let’s Go: Ecuador and the Galapagos Islands. March-Dec. 1996. Cambridge, MA.

 Researcher-writer, Let’s Go: Central America. April-July 1995. Cambridge, MA.

HOBBIES & INTERESTS 

Languages: Spanish, French, Italian, German.

Outdoor activities: Surfing, climbing, hiking, biking.