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Professional Activities: Member of the International Society for Infant
Studies, the Society for Research in Child Development, the Eastern
Psychological Association, the American Psychological Association,
the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, the Vision
Sciences Society, and the Psychonomic Society. Research Interests: Visual perception and memory and the development of abilities in these areas Research Description: Research in my lab is directed towards examination of the perceptual and memory abilities of infants and young children. Investigation of the perceptual and attention processes that influence the formation of visual memories and exploration of the structure and content of visual representations comprise the primary foci of my research. I subscribe to the view that processes from all three areas are highly interrelated, and I am currently investigating questions regarding the influence of basic perceptual processes on the representation of visual stimuli, and questions regarding the influence of attention on memory in both infants and children. I have previously studied the effects of viewpoint changes on the representation underlying adult object recognition, and am currently involved in investigating the ontogenetic beginnings of this ability. Overall, my research is directed towards understanding, in a developmental framework, the interaction of perception and memory in higher-level vision. Philosophy of Graduate Training: I feel that independence fosters independent thinking and novel approaches to research. Classroom instruction has a place in a graduate program without doubt, but it is clearly of less value than direct experience in researching a topic, designing a study, collecting the data and presenting the research in a public forum. Students in this lab progress rapidly from a strongly supervised training period to highly independent activities as a researcher in the field (most of our data collection, while computer-driven, is done in the subjects' homes). Graduate students are viewed as colleagues and treated as such to the greatest extent possible, and the generation of a research track record (publications and conference presentations) is emphasized as an important part of the graduate education. Selected Publications:
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