Steven J. Luck is an American cognitive neuroscientist and distinguished professor of psychology at The University of California, San Diego (UCSD).
Education and Career Steven Luck received a Bachelor's of Art in psychology from Reed College in 1986 and went on to earn a Master's of Science in neurosciences from UCSD in 1989 and a Ph.D. in Neurosciences in 1993 from UCSD. Luck continued as a research assistant until 1994 before accepting a professorship at the University of Iowa until 2006. Luck currently holds the position of distinguished professor at the University of California, Davis.
Research Luck's primary research focus is in cognitive neuroscience. Luck co-developed and maintains ERPLAB and hosts an annual 10-day ERP Boot Camp with Emily Kappenman, designed to train researchers at any level on the fundamentals of event-related potentials. Luck has published extensive academic literature with over 180 articles accumulating over 29,000 citations
Awards
2012 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS):For his work in attention and visual memory. 2001 - Troland Research Awards, United States National Academy of Sciences: For his pathbreaking behavioral, psychophysical, and physiological studies of attention and visual memory.
Selected Publications Books Luck, S. J. (2022). Applied event-related potential data analysis. LibreTexts, 10(1), 5. Luck, S. J. (2014). An introduction to the event-related potential technique. MIT press. Luck, S. J., & Kappenman, E. S. (Eds.). (2011). The Oxford handbook of event-related potential components. Oxford university press.
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