Hervé Abdi

Hervé Abdi 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 of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas. His recent work is concerned with: face and person perception and memory, odor perception and memory, and with computational modeling of these processes. He is also developing statistical techniques to analyze the structure of large and complex data sets as found, for example, in Genomics, brain imaging, and sensory evaluation (e.g., principal component analysis, correspondence analysis, PLS-Regression, STATIS, DISTATIS, discriminant correspondence analysis, multiple factor analysis, multi-table analysis, additive tree representations). He teaches or has taught classes in cognition, computational modeling, experimental design, multivariate statistics, and the analysis of brain imaging data. He is the author or co-author of more than two hundred scientific papers and author or editor of more than twenty volumes, including H. Abdi, D. Beaton, Principal Component and Correspondence Analyses Using R. (Springer Verlag, in press, 2015) and H. Abdi, B. Edelman, D. Valentin, W. J. Dowling, Experimental Design and Analysis for Psychology (Oxford University Press, 2009).