Professor
Ph.D., University of
Aix-en-Provence (France), 1980
Memory and Cognition, Quantitative Models

Email: herve@utdallas.edu
Phone: 972-883-2065
Office: GR 4.216

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About Herve Abdi

Hervé Abdi received an M.S. in Psychology from the University of Franche-Comté (France) in 1975, an M.S. (D.E.A.) in Economics from the University of Clermond-Ferrand (France) in 1976, an M.S. (D.E.A.) in Neurology from the University Louis Pasteur in Strasbourg (France) in 1977, and a Ph.D. in Mathematical Psychology from the University of Aix-en-Provence (France) in 1980. He was an assistant professor in the University of Franche-Comté (France) in 1979, an associate professor in the University of Bourgogne at Dijon (France) in 1983, a full professor in the University of Bourgogne at Dijon (France) in 1988. He is currently a full professor in the School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences at the University of Texas at Dallas and an adjunct professor of Radiology at the University or Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas. He was a Fullbright scholar and visiting associate professor of Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences at Brown University in 1986 and 1987; he has been, also, a visiting professor at the University of Geneva (Switzerland), Chuo University (Japan), and Université de Dijon (France).

Research Interests

My research is organized around three areas: psychology of memory, neural networks, and statistics. The psychology of memory research is mainly directed toward the modeling of long term semantic memory (e.g., scripts, schema, concepts) and memory for faces. The neural networks research is directed at finding a generalization of auto-associative networks and to the analysis of the statistical properties of connectionist models. My work with statistics is oriented towards two domains: analysis of variance (experimental design) and analysis of qualitative data (correspondence analysis, additive tree analysis).

Recent Publications

Abdi, H. and Valentin, D. (in press, 2005). Mathématiques pour les sciences cognitives (Mathematical tools for the cognitive sciences). Grenoble (Fr): Presses Universitairies de Grenoble.

O’Toole, A.J., Harms, J., Snow, S.L., Hurst , D.R., Pappas, M.R., Ayyad, J., and Abdi, H. (in press, 2005). A video database of moving faces and people. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence. 27.

O’Toole, A.J., Jiang, F., Roark, D., and Abdi, H. (in press, 2005). Predicting human performance for face recognition. In R. Chellappa and W. Zhao (Eds.). Face Processing: Advanced models and methods. Academic Press.