Amy A. Kalia

Postdoctoral Fellow
Sinha Lab

M.I.T.
Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
46-4089
77 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02139

Email: akalia[at]mit.edu
Phone: 617-252-1815

Sinha Lab

Project Prakash

Prakash Center for Children

See Pawan Sinha's TED talk on Project Prakash and restoring sight to blind children in India

Perception of Tactile Graphics:

Kalia, A.A., & Sinha, P. (2011). Tactile Picture Recognition: Errors are in Shape Acquisition or Object Matching? Seeing and Perceiving, 24(4). [abstract] [pdf]

Spatial Navigation with Normal and Low Vision:

Kalia, A.A., Legge, G.E., Roy, R. & Ogale, A. (2010). Assessment of Indoor Route-finding Technology for Visually-Impaired People. Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness, 104(3), 135-147. [pdf]

Kalia, A.A., Legge, G.E., & Giudice, N.A. (2008). Learning Building Layouts with Non-geometric Visual Information: The Effects of Visual Impairment and Age. Perception, 37(11), 1677-1699. [pdf]

Stankiewicz, B.J. & Kalia, A.A. (2007). Acquisition of Structural versus Object Landmark Knowledge. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception & Performance, 33(2), 378-90. [pdf]

Face and Scene Recognition with Simulated Low Vision

Kalia, A.A., Legge, G.E., & Kallie, C.S. (2010, May). Effective acuity for low-pass filtering of real world images. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, Naples, Florida. [abstract] [pdf]

Kwon, M., Kalia, A.A., & Legge, G.E. (2008, May). Blurry Faces are Sometimes Recognized Better than High-Resolution Faces. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, Naples, Florida. [abstract] [pdf]