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Editor Biographies
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Charlie Chubb got his PhD from NYU in 1985. After a Postdoc with George Sperling at NYU, he took a faculty position in the Psychology Department at Rutgers, New Brunswick in 1989. Since 1994 he has been in the Cognitive Sciences Department at UC Irvine. His current research interests include human visual motion perception, texture perception, lightness and brightness perception, and visual-motor interactions. He also uses psychophysical methods to investigate the camouflage responses evoked in cuttlefish by the visual properties of their environment. |
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Bradley S. Gibson is currently an associate professor in the Psychology Department at the University of Notre Dame. Gibson’s research interests are in the areas of perception, attention, and visual cognition. His work in perception has focused on the “top-down” and “bottom-up” influences on the perceptual organization of visual objects and the recognition of visual objects. His work in attention has spanned a number of topics including interactions between stimulus-driven and goal-directed attentional control, object-based vs. space-based allocation of attention, the role of inhibition and memory in visual search, the influence of spatial semantics on the spatial distribution of attention, and the symbolic control of signal enhancement vs. noise exclusion mechanisms of visual selective attention. A relatively new area of research concerns the enhancement of specific components of spatial working memory (e.g., focus of attention, and cue-dependent retrieval) via training. |
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Simon Grondin specializes in experimental psychology (psychophysics, perception and cognition). He studies the properties of an internal clock and the processing of temporal information, both within and across sensory modes (mainly audition and vision). Specifically, his research includes experiments on the influence of space on time judgments, rhythm, the learning and transfer of temporal information, and the role of attention and memory on duration estimation. He is also interested in the neural bases of temporal information processing, the impact of emotions on retrospective temporal judgments, and the impact of various disorders or pathologies on temporal processing or psychological time. |
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Lynne C. Nygaard is an Associate Professor of Psychology at Emory University. She received her PhD in Cognitive Science from Brown University in 1991 and did postdoctoral training in the Department of Psychology at Indiana University. She joined the faculty at Emory in 1995. Her research examines the mechanisms underlying the perception of speech and other auditory events. Her current work investigates perceptual learning of systematic variation in speech; the role of emotion in processing spoken language; and auditory imagery for the perceptual properties of spoken language. |
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Adriane E. Seiffert did her dissertation with Patrick Cavanagh at Harvard, followed by a post-doc with Anne Treisman at Princeton. Since 2004, she has been an Assistant Professor of Psychology at Vanderbilt University. Her current research investigates visual motion perception, attention, short-term memory and the perception of visuomotor control, using psychophysics and functional neuroimaging techniques. |
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Joshua A. Solomon received his PhD in Psychology from NYU in 1992. His thesis concerned “first and second-order motion and texture processing.” Post-doctoral engagements included a year at Syracuse University, two years at NASA/Ames and five years at University College London. All of his projects during those years could be classified as either spatial vision or motion perception. Joshua joined City University in 2000, and remains focussed on “nuts and bolts” psychophysics, but also occasionally investigates attention and duration estimation. |
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Shaun Vecera is a professor at the University of Iowa. His research focuses on visual cognition broadly, with specific interests in object-based attention and perceptual organization. He received his BS from the University of Oregon and his PhD from Carnegie Mellon University. More information can be found at www.psychology.uiowa.edu/Faculty/Vecera/. |
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Jeremy Wolfe received his undergraduate degree in Psychology from Princeton (’77) and his PhD on binocular single vision from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (’81) where his doctoral advisor was Richard Held. He was on the faculty of MIT until 1991 when he moved to Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School where he is Professor of Ophthalmology. His major areas of current research concern visual attention and its role in visual experience and visual behavior. Wolfe lives in Newton, MA with his wife, three sons, two cats, two snakes, and a variable number of fish and mice. search.bwh.harvard.edu |
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