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The Sun (thesun.co.uk/)

Optical illusion of ‘Crocs and socks’ reignites years-long debate – what color do YOU see?

By Cheyenne R. Ubiera, 19 Apr 2022

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The New York Post (nypost.com/)

‘Crocs & Socks’ illusion baffles viewers with debate over true color

By Andrew Court, April 19, 2022 

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MathWorks (blogs.mathworks.com)

The Science Behind This Illusion and How The Visual Confuses Your Brain

By Lisa Harvey, July 2, 2021

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New York University (nyu.edu):

A New Kind of Visual Illusion Uncovers How Our Brains Connect the Dots

By: James Devitt, Jun 29 2021

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The Sun (thesun.co.uk):

This new optical illusion fools your brain – can you work out how?

By: Vanessa Chalmers, Jun 29 2021

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Live Science (livescience.com/):

A new type of optical illusion tricks the brain into seeing dazzling rays

By: Harry Baker, Jun 29 2021

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IFLScience (www.iflscience.com):

Brand New Type Of Optical Illusion Tricks The Brain Into Seeing Shimmering Rays

By: IFL Science Staff, Jun 29 2021

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DailyMail UK (https://www.dailymail.co.uk/):

'Scintillating Starburst' optical illusion tricks you into thinking a spinning wheel is shimmering - and illustrates how our brains 'connect the dots' to create a subjective reality in what we see

By: Shivali Best, Jun 29 2021

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IFLScience (www.iflscience.com):

Boggle Your Brain With The Best Illusion Of The Year Contest 2020

By: IFLS staff; Dec. 18th 2020

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Neurology® The most widely read and highly cited peer-reviewed neurology journal

An article I co-authored, "Socioeconomic disparities in SUDEP in the US" was chosen to be the featured research on the journal's cover for Volume 94 (number 24) June 16th, 2020. 

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Scientific American® : 

A Pair of Crocs to Match the Dress: New research casts light on viral illusions 

By Stephen L. Macknik; Jan. 23, 2020

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Twenty-Eight Shades of Shoes: New research using Crocs explains the dress 

By Susana Martinez-Conde, Stephen L. Macknik; Dec. 12, 2019

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Buzzfeed : 

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First There Was "The Dress." Now We've Got These Crocs.

By Dan Vergano; Jul. 3, 2019

You Are Not So Smart Podcast - A Celebration of Self-Delusion

Episode 176 (in two parts):  – How a divisive photograph of a perceptually ambiguous dress led two researchers to build the nuclear bomb of cognitive science out of socks and Crocs

Hosted by David McRaney; featuring Michael Karlovich and Pascal Wallisch

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Part 1 of the podcast  Aired March 9th, 2020 

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Part two of the podcast Aired Mar. 25, 2020

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Interested in the following or related positions:
Quantitative research in neuroscience, cognitive psychology, sensation & perception, or clinical medicine 
Bioinformatic data analyst
Bioinformatics programmer
Statistical programmer
Non-specific data visualization
Cognitive neurophysiological data analyst
Cognitive psychological data analyst
Electrophysiological data analyst
Consumer behavior data analyst
Clinical data analyst
Image data analyst
Digital artist

Hi, my name is Michael Karlovich, and this is my website! As an overview,  I am a 29-year-old living in NYC. In 2015 I graduated from Union College in Schenectady, New York. At Union, I received a top-notch multidisciplinary liberal arts education while I majored in cognitive neuroscience and philosophy.

Along with a skill set of excellent programming, statistics, and data analytics, at the core of my scientific background lies a knowledge-base of cognitive, biological, and computational neuroscience, sensation, and perception (in particular vision), and psychological and clinical research methods.

I have spent the last five years since graduating from Union College conducting scientific research on several subjects ranging from cognitive psychology to computational neuroscience to pharmaceutical trials to epidemiology. In this time I helped advance several projects; contributing to three articles published in the top journal, Neurology, and three additional articles currently in peer-review.
 
As a hobby and fun way of simultaneously developing my programming abilities and applying and exploring the principles of neuroscience, I began deeply exploring digital art. After a few years of honing my craft, I realized I developed a suite of unique techniques to make novel and beautiful digital creations. 
 
Once I began to become more confident in the quality of my work I began sharing it with people close to me. Upon receiving many comments from family and friends, along with some very unlikely serendipitous encounters with leaders in the fashion industry with whom I had to chance to share my work,  I realized people were recognizing what I was doing as not just creative output, but as art worthy of display and use in fashion and product design. From all this feedback I received, I decided to leverage my creative talents, neuroscience knowledge, and programming skills to incorporate a small business in the form of an online store, www.recursia.shop/. The webstore sells apparel, home decor products, and canvas prints featuring my work and designs.

At present, the several scientific projects I had been pursuing are coming to an end, with all of them either been published or currently in peer-review. As my time has freed up with each successive project becoming completed, I progressively developed programs to automate much of my company's operations. With my six projects completed, and my online business almost entirely automated, I am left with an abundance of time to pursue a full-time career separate from Recursia. Thus, I am now seeking to take my career to its next level!

I am at a stage where I have a  good sense of my strengths and weaknesses, a tenacious work ethic, and wield a solid command over the subject-matter which nearly the last decade of my life has been dedicated to. Most importantly, I love what I do and am eager to develop my knowledge and understanding to continue to produce world-class work. My wide skill set can be applied to several industries and fields. If you think I could be an asset to your organization and would like more information, please check out my Bio and CV pages under the About Me tab in the menu. Please click here for contact information.