emily x meschke

COMPUTATIONAL & COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE

curriculum vitae

Last Updated: May 2019

Education
University of California, Berkeley | 2019 - Present
Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute
Graduate Student
University of Southern California | 2015 - 2019
B.S. in Computational Neuroscience
Minor in Computer Science
Relevant Coursework: Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Neuroscience, Principles of Software Development, Data Structures and Object Oriented Design
Research
Gallant Lab
 Summer 2020 - Present
Dr. Jack Gallant
I construct voxelwise models of brain activity to assess feature-based networks across cortex.
USC Image Understanding Lab
 Fall 2015 - Present
Dr. Irving Biederman
I conducted psychophysical studies to test theories of human face recognition and evaluate perceptual deficits of developmental prosopagnosia.
USC Interaction Lab
 Spring 2018 - Present
Dr. Maja Mataric
I developed models of attention and adaptability to facilitate collaboration between humans and robots.
Publications
  1. Hacker, C., Zhu, T., Nelken, M., Meschke, E.X., & Biderman, I. (2019). Why Is It So Difficult to Recognize Faces Differing Only Moderately in Orientation. Preprint on PsyArXiv.
  2. Margalit, E., Herald, S.B., Meschke, E.X., Irawan, I., Maarek, R., & Biederman, I. (2019). Visual noise consisting of X-junctions has only a minimal adverse effect on object recognition. Atten Percept & Psychophys. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13414-019-01840-2.
  3. Hacker, C.M., Meschke, E.X., & Biederman, I. (2018). A Face in a (Temporal) Crowd. Vision Research, 157, 55-60. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.visres.2018.02.007.
  4. Biederman, I., Shilowich, B.E., Herald, S.B., Margalit, E., Maarek, R., Meschke, E.X., & Hacker, C.H. (2018). The Cognitive Neuroscience of Person Identification. Neuropsychologia, 116,205-214. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2018.01.036.
Conference Presentations and Posters
  1. Cha, E.*, Meschke, E.*, Fong, T., & Mataric, M. (2019). A Probabilistic Approach to Human-Robot Communication. Paper presented at the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2019), Macau, China.
  2. Meschke, E.X. & Biderman, I. (2019). Direct Evidence that Inversion of Faces Disrupts Configural Processing. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, St. Petersburg Beach, Fl. May.
  3. Biederman, I., Zhu, T., Nelken, M., Meschke, E.X. & Hacker, C.M. (2019). The Cost of Matching Depth-Rotated Faces: A Simple Function of Image Similarity. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, St. Petersburg Beach, Fl. May.
  4. Maarek, R.S., Meschke, E.X. & Biderman, I. (2019). Congential Prosopagnosics Show Reduced Configural Effects in an Odd-Man-Out Detection Task. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, St. Petersburg Beach, Fl. May.
  5. Biederman, I., Margalit, E., Herald, S.B., Maarek, R., & Meschke, E.X., (2018). What is the Nature of the Perceptual Deficit in Congenital Prosopagnosia? Talk given at the Annual Meeting of Vision Sciences Society, St. Petersburg Beach, Fl. May.
  6. Meschke, E.X., Hacker, C.M., & Biederman, I. (2018). How Many Faces Can a Person Recognize? Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, St. Petersburg Beach, Fl. May.
  7. Hacker, C.M., Meschke, E.X., & Biederman, I. (2018). Recognition of Stretched Faces. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, St. Petersburg Beach, Fl. May.
  8. Zhu, T., Nelken, M., Hacker, C.M., Meschke, E.X., & Biederman, I. (2018). Matching Depth-Rotated Faces at Varying Degrees of Physical Similarity. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, St. Petersburg Beach, Fl. May.
  9. Meschke, E.X., Hacker, C.M., Juarez, J.J., Maarek, R.S., & Biederman, I. (2017). Detecting Unspecified Familiar Faces. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, St. Petersburg Beach, Fl. May.
  10. Biederman, I., Meschke, E.X., Maarek, R., & Margalit, E. (2017). What is the Nature of the Perceptual Deficit in Congenital Prosopagnosia? Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society of Experimental Psychologists, Vanderbilt Univ., Nashville, TN. March.
  11. Biederman, I., Margalit, E., Maarek, R.S., Meschke, E.X., Shilowich, B.S., Hacker, C. M., Juarez, J.J., Seamans, T. J., & Herald, S.B. (2017). What is the Nature of the Perceptual Deficit in Congenital Prosopagnosia? Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, St. Petersburg Beach, Fl. May.
  12. Irawan, I., Margalit, E., Meschke, E.X., Herald, S.B., & Biederman, I. (2016). Vertices are Effective in Perceptual Grouping (and Ungrouping) in Object Recognition. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, St. Petersburg Beach, Fl. May.
Skills
Programming
  • Python
  • MATLAB
  • Java
  • C/C++
  • Psychtoolbox
  • HTML/CSS/JS
  • Bash
  • R
    • Methodologies
  • Psychophysics
  • fMRI
    • Software
  • FSL
  • Adobe Photoshop
  • Qualtrics
    • Awards
    USC Presidential Scholarship
    2015 - 2019 | Half tuition merit-based scholarship [link]
    USC Rose Hills Undergraduate Research Fellowship
    2017 | Award supporting full-time research in science or engineering over the summer [link]
    USC Provost's Undergraduate Research Fellowship
    Six-time recipient [link]
    USC SOAR (Student Opportunities for Academic Research) Grant
    Grant supporting undergraduate research with a faculty member [link]
    Arnold W. Bramlett Scholarship
    2017 | Awarded to high-performing students in USC Dornsife
    Professional Scoeity Memberships
    Vision Science Society, Society of Women Engineers, Association for Psychological Science.
    Website created by Emily Meschke.