|
|
Visual Cognition and Human Performance Division
Program Description
Members of the Visual Cognition and Human Performance division (VCHP) have interests in attention, perception, spatial cognition, skill learning, and action, with emphases on both basic and applied research in perception and cognition. Research in the division adopts a variety of approaches and methodologies to explore both basic mechanisms of visual cognition as well as real-world applications of cognitive and perceptual principles. The VCHP division interacts closely with other divisions in Psychology (particularly Cognitive and Brain and Cognition) - students and faculty in these divisions share broad interests in cognitive science and cognitive neuroscience, and they collaborate extensively both with each other and with members of other divisions within the psychology department.
Curriculum
The program is designed to train students to become contributing scientists in academic or applied settings and to become teachers at the graduate and undergraduate levels. Over the course of the program, students and advisor work together to design a program of study fitted to the student's particular needs and interests. The program places a heavy emphasis on original research from the beginning of graduate studies, and all students complete a first-year research project which they then present in the division seminar.
Facilities & Resources
Students, postdocs, and faculty in the division have access to state-of-the-art research facilities and tools including multi-modality brain imaging (fMRI, optical imaging, high-density EEG/ERP), exceptional eye tracking equipment, flight and driving simulators, and virtual reality environments (both 4- and 6-sided caves). They also have access to diverse subject populations (e.g, children, elderly, neuropsychological patients).
Affiliated Departments, Programs, and Institutes
The VCHP division participates in the interdisciplinary Engineering Psychology & Human Factors program and also maintains close ties with the Institute of Aviation as well as other departments in the university (e.g., Industrial Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Kinesiology, Education). All of the members are also affiliated with the interdisciplinary Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology.
Visual Cognition and Human Performance Division Faculty| David E. Irwin (Professor and Head) |  | Visual perception, visual cognition, memory, and language. | | Office: Room 315 | (217) 333-0632 | irwin@uiuc.edu |
| Arthur F. Kramer (Professor) |  | Cognitive neuroscience, cognition & aging, selective attention, skill acquisition and training, human factors. | | Office: Room 515 | (217) 333-9532 | akramer@cyrus.psych.uiuc.edu |
| Alejandro Lleras (Assistant Professor of Psychology) |  | Interplay between visual awareness, attention and memory systems; between perception and action; and embodied cognition. | | Office: Room 523 | (217) 265-6709 | AlejandroLleras @ gmail.com (remove spaces) |
| Jason S. McCarley (Assistant Professor) |  | Basic and applied aspects of attention, visual cognition, and eye movements. | | Office: Room 808 | (217) 244-5766 | mccarley@uiuc.edu |
| Daniel J. Simons (Professor) |  | Visual cognition, perception, attention, and memory. Much of my research focuses on successes and failures of visual awareness, including change blindness and inattentional blindness. | | Office: Room 807 | (217) 333-7628 | dsimons AT uiuc DOT edu |
| Jesse Spencer-Smith (Assistant Professor) |  | Prof. Spencer-Smith studies the geometric structure and dynamic properties of psychological spaces. Emotional facial expressions is one area in which he studies and models people*s perceptions using these mathematical tools. | | Office: Room 425 | (217) 265-5493 | jbspence@uiuc.edu |
| Ranxiao Frances Wang (Associate Professor) |  | Principles used by humans and other animals to solve various perceptual and spatial problems and how to implement these principles in artificial systems; and the reference systems and processes underlying human navigation, space perception, object and scene recognition, and visual perception of self-motion. | | Office: Room 533 | (217) 244-3664 | francesw@cyrus.psych.uiuc.edu |
Associated Faculty from Other Divisions| Diane M. Beck (Assistant Professor) |  | Cognitive and neural mechanisms of visual attention, awareness, and perception. | | Office: Room 531 | (217) 244-1118 | dmbeck AT uiuc DOT edu |
| Aaron S. Benjamin (Associate Professor) |  | Human learning, memory, and decision-making | | Office: Room 827 | (217) 333-6822 | asbenjam [at] uiuc [dot] edu |
| Neal J Cohen (Professor) |  | Interdisciplinary, cognitive neuroscience study of human learning and memory, with a focus on identifying and characterizing the brain's multiple memory systems, particularly the hippocampal system, through the study of amnesia. | | Office: Room Beckman 2165 | (217) 244-4339 | njc@uiuc.edu |
| Gary S. Dell (Professor) |  | Language production and comprehension; connectionist models of psycholinguistic phenomena. | | Office: Room 833 | (217) 244-1294 | gdell@cyrus.psych.uiuc.edu |
| Monica Fabiani (Professor) |  | Memory; cognition and aging; neuroimaging; optical imaging; cognitive neuroscience. | | Office: Room 517 | (217) 244-1117 | mfabiani@illinois.edu |
| Gabriele Gratton (Professor) |  | Gabriele Gratton's interests are in cognitive neuroscience and attention and performance. | | Office: Room 519 | (217) 244-1019 | grattong@uiuc.edu |
| John E. Hummel (Professor) |  | Relational processing in perception and cognition. Neurocomputational origins of relational (i.e., symbolic) thought. | | Office: Room 825 | (217) 265-6090 | jehummel AT uiuc DOT edu |
| Christopher Wickens (Professor Emeritus) |  | Applied cognitive psychology, specifically how humans interact with complex systems, particularly airplanes (pilots and controllers) and ground vehicles. | | Office: Room 511 | (217) 333-6195 | cwickens@uiuc.edu |
Other Affiliates from Other Departments| » | Kirlik, Alex – Human Factors Division, Beckman Institute, and Departments of Psychology, Computer Science, Mechanical Science & Engineering, and Industrial & Enterprise Systems Engineering Department (kirlik@uiuc.edu | Website | (217) 244-8972) |
|
|
