Overview
Theoretical issues of cognitive processes (perception and categorization), and measurement issues of psychophysics (vision, audition, judgment, context), as they relate to questions about identification and classification (e.g., How will I recognize you the next time I see you?).
Current Appointments & Affiliations
Professor Emeritus of Psychological and Brain Sciences
·
2006 - Present
Psychology & Neuroscience,
Trinity College of Arts & Sciences
Recent Publications
Absolute judgments are relative: A reinterpretation of some psychophysical ideas
Journal Article Review of General Psychology · January 1, 2004 A central theoretical assumption in classical psychophysics is that people judge the intensities of stimulus elements; for example, observers directly report the loudness of a tone or the intensity of a shock. A methodological assumption in classical psych ... Full text CiteVariability is not uniformily bad: The practices of psychologists generate research questions
Journal Article Behavioral and Brain Sciences · January 1, 2001 The practices of economists increase experimental reproducibility relative to those of selected psychologists but should not be universally adopted. Procedures criticized by Hertwig and Ortmann as producing variable data are valuable, instead, for generati ... Full text CitePsychologically rational choice: Selection between alternatives in a multiple-equilibrium game
Journal Article Cognitive Systems Research · January 1, 2000 Choice is modeled by game theory through analyses of the structure of a game situation. However, at least some choices, such as those in games that have more than one rational solution, are difficult to address under standard game theory. We investigated c ... Full text CiteRecent Grants
On Categorizing Sounds
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Air Force Office of Scientific Research · 1987 - 1990The Perception of Structure: A Scientific Conference
ConferencePrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Office of Naval Research · 1989 - 1990View All Grants
Education, Training & Certifications
Johns Hopkins University ·
1965
Ph.D.