Expertise

Research

  • How does fatigue affect comparisons?
  • Optimizing Decision Thresholds
  • Varying the Size of the Conclusions Scale
  • Do examiners know what to look for?
  • Don't search databases that are too big!
  • Learning to see through the noise

Areas of Study

  • Visual perception
  • Recognition memory
  • Face recognition
  • EEG analysis of face and object perception
  • Mathematical modeling techniques applied to above domains

Research Topics

  • Cognitive Science  

My research consists of three topic areas that are highly inter-related. In collaboration with Geoff Loftus, I have addressed the temporal aspects of information processing tasks such as character identification and binocular information acquisition. This work has produced 6 peer-reviewed articles in major journals. More recently I have expanded my research focus to look at how the information that is acquired by these early perceptual mechanisms is processed in memory tasks. Several research projects have addressed the nature of the representation of perceptual information, and the use of this information in recognition and metacognitive tasks. This research line has produced 4 articles and book chapters, with several other articles under review.


Subject Areas

  • Psychological and Brain Sciences
Communities
Neuroscience, Cognitive Science, Psychology
Degrees
PhD, University of Washington, Psychology, 1994
BA, Cornell University, Experimental Psychology, 1988
Keywords
psychology