Dr. Wei Ji Ma's <a href="http://neuro.bcm.edu/malab">laboratory</a>
at Baylor College of Medicine focuses on
investigating perception from a computational perspective. Using a
combination of human psychophysics, behavioral modeling, and neural
theory, we aim to understand how people integrate pieces of uncertain
information when solving visual and multisensory tasks. We use a
principled and general approach to modeling, namely the notion that the
brain tries to optimally infer the state of the world from sensory
information. Ongoing projects involve visual short-term memory, visual
attention, and multisensory integration. For this, we use probability
theory and techniques from machine learning. The REU project would most
likely be about building and testing a computational model of an
interesting visual illusion, but your own ideas are very welcome.