Jonathan Winawer, phd
Postdoctoral Fellow
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Educational Background:
| 2007-present | Stanford University | Postdoctoral fellow, Psychology. Advisor: Brian Wandell. |
| 2001-2007 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | PhD, Brain and Cognitive Sciences. Thesis: “Common mechanisms for the representation of real, imagined, and implied visual motion”. Advisors: Lera Boroditsky, Barton L Anderson. |
| 1999-2001 | City College, City Univ. of New York | MS, Neurobiology. Thesis: “Temporal integration of defocus in the control of eye growth”. (Degree awarded May, 2005) Thesis Advisor: Josh Wallman. |
| 1990-1995 | Columbia Univ., Columbia College | BA, Classics, cum laude. Dean’s list 1990, 1993, 1994. |
Selected Publications:
- Winawer J, Huk A, Boroditsky L. (2008) A motion aftereffect from viewing still photographs depicting motion. Psychological Science. 19(3):276-83.
- Winawer, J, Witthoft, N, Frank, M ,Wu, L, Wade, A, Boroditsky, L. (2007) The Russian Blues reveal effects of language on color discrimination. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science. 104(19): 7780-7785. doi:10.1073/pnas.0701644104
- Kee, CS, Hung, LF, Qiao, Y, Ramamirtham, R, Winawer, J, Wallman, J, Smith, EL. (2007) Temporal constraints on experimental emmetropization in infant monkeys. Investigative Ophthalmology and Vision Science, 48: 957 - 62. doi:10.1167/iovs.06-0743
- Witthoft N, Winawer J. (2006) Synesthetic colors determined by having colored refrigerator magnets in childhood. Cortex 42(2):175-183.
- Anderson BL, Winawer J. (2005) Image segmentation and lightness perception. Nature, 434(7029): 79-83. doi:10.1038/nature03271
- Zhu, X, Park, T, Winawer, J, Wallman, J. (2005) In a matter of minutes, the eye can know which way to grow. Investigative Ophthalmology and Vision Science, 46: 2238 - 2241. doi:10.1167/iovs.04-0956
- Winawer J, Zhu X, Choi J, Wallman J. (2005) Ocular compensation for alternating myopic and hyperopic defocus. Vision Research, 45:1667-1677. doi:10.1016/j.visres.2004.12.013
- Wallman, J., Winawer, J. (2004) Homeostasis of eye growth and the question of myopia. Neuron, 43(4):447-468. doi:10.1016/j.neuron.2004.08.008
- Zhu, X, Winawer, J, Wallman, J. (2003) The potency of myopic defocus in lens-compensation. Investigative Ophthalmology and Vision Science. 44: 2818- 2827. doi:10.1167/iovs.02-0606
- Park, TW, Winawer, J, Wallman, J. (2003) Further evidence that chick eyes use the sign of blur in spectacle lens compensation. Vision Research, 43:1519-1531.
doi:10.1016/S0042-6989(03)00180-9 - Winawer, J, Wallman, J. (2002) Temporal constraints on lens compensation in chicks. Vision Research, 42:2651–2668. doi:10.1016/S0042-6989(02)00300-0


