Lab Personnel Professor Geoffrey P. Bingham, PhD. (Psychology Page, Cognitive Science Page, Class Syllabi) Ph.D., University of Connecticut, 1985. Human visual and haptic perception, event perception, coordination and control of motor activity, visually guided reaching. I spent my boomer (b.1954) childhood in Northampton, MA, the Pioneer Valley and surrounding Berkshire hills. My college years were at Trinity College in Hartford, CT and Smith College, interrupted by a year working at the Nantucket Cottage Hospital. After two years working as a computer programmer, I entered grad school studying perception with MT Turvey and RE Shaw at UConn. I did my dissertation on a Fulbright with G Johansson in Uppsala, Sweden, then a fellowship with MA Arbib at UMass, followed by a postdoc studying action with JAS Kelso at Haskins Laboratories in New Haven, CT. In 1989, I joined the faculty in Psychological and Brain Sciences and Cognitive Science at Indiana University. I am married to Carol Watson and we are now adjusting to being 'empty nesters'. Post-Docs Winona Snapp-Childs PhD, Purdue University, 2007 I recently graduated from Purdue University where I studied Behavioral Neuroscience and Motor Development with Daniela Corbetta. In my dissertation, I investigated the stability and flexibility of young children's movement patterns. Email: wsnappch@indiana.edu Grad Students Jing Samantha Pan MA (Psychology), University of Chicago, USA BA (Communication Studies), Nanyang Technological University, Singapore I joined the Perception and Action Lab in 2008. I am currently working on a project studying depth percetion. Additionally, topics that I am interested in include perception of affordances, motor variability and motor development. Previously, I worked in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Chicago Medical Center and before that I studied in Prof. Bennett Bertenthal's Perception and Action Lab at the University of Chicago and my research was on infants' action perception. Email: jingpan@indiana.edu Aaron Fath MA (Cognitive Science), Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA BA (Mathematics), Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA I am an IGERT trainee and second year PhD student in Cognitive Science and Psychology. My current project is investigating the visual information used to guide human walking-to-reach behavior and the control strategies that govern the use of this information. While at RPI, I worked in Brett Fajen's PandA Lab. My master's thesis focused on identifying the information that allows humans to judge the size and passability of apertures, along with the means of control that guide properly scaled rotation of the body while walking through these apertures: http://www.perceptionweb.com/perception/fulltext/p40/p6917.pdf. Email: ajfath@indiana.edu Emel Gencer MA (Computer Science), Indiana University - Bloomington, USA BA (Computer Engineering), Mersin University, Turkey I joined the Perception and Action Lab in 2011. I am currently working on rescaling of effectivity-affordance relations and recalibration in visually guided reaching-to-grasp. Email: egencer@indiana.edu Janusz Mazanowski MA (Psychology), University of Aberdeen, Scotland, UK. I am a first year PhD student in the Department of Brain and Psychological Sciences, joined Perception/Action lab in 2011. Currently working with Geoffrey Bingham to investigate metric shape perception of 3-dimensional objects. My undergraduate thesis at University of Aberdeen focused on allocation of visual attention in manual obstacle avoidance, and was produced under supervision of Dr Amelia Hunt. Email: jamazano@indiana.edu Didem Kadihasanogly MA (Cognitive Science), Middle Eastern Technical University, Turkey BA (Mathematics), Middle Eastern Technical University, Turkey I am a fifth year grad student in the Department of Cognitive Sciences at Indiana University. I'm interested in Dynamical Systems and currently working with Randell Beer. I am also joining Perception / Action Lab. Email: dikadiha@indiana.edu Devin Burns I am interested in applying the intricate mathematics of differential geometry and dynamic systems in the study of human cognition. My current projects include work on configural processing through the example of face recognition. I am also interested in the ecological and embodied view points of cognition. Email: devburns@indiana.edu Ty Boyer I am a postdoc research associate in the Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences at Indiana University in Professor Bennett Bertenthal's Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience Lab (www.indiana.edu/~dcnlab). I study various facets of cognitive development, including social cognition, action understanding, spatial and numerical cognition, and judgment, decision-making, and risk-taking, from birth, through childhood, into adolescence, and beyond. My work revolves around the themes of perception, representation, and expectation, and the interaction of these mental processes. The development of automatic-intuitive and more explicit cognitive processes is another central theme of my work. Personal Web Page Email: tywboyer@indiana.edu Elizabeth Casserly In 2008, I started the graduate program in Linguistics at Indiana University. I've since added a second major in Psychological & Brain Sciences (Cognitive Psychology) and am an active member of David Pisoni's Speech Research Lab. I'm also involved in the Indiana University Linguistics Club (IULC), where I served as the colloquium coordinator during the 2009-2010 academic year and am currently our Vice President. Although the specifics change frequently, these are the projects and issues that seem to occupy me most of the time: # Production/Perception links & speech motor control # Motor control in development and clinical populations # Articulatory phonology as a representation of Scandinavian laryngeal systems Personal Web Page Email: casserly@indiana.edu Dan Yurovsky I am a fifth year grad student in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Indiana University. I'm interested in modeling human learning across timescales: from developmental time to real-time eye fixations. Like other students, I try to see further by standing on the shoulders of giants. Most directly, I'm advised by Chen Yu and Linda Smith, but I have the great fortune to be surrounded by other exceptional scientists. I also sometimes see connections in random noise, and try to convince people to watch machine learning videos . Personal Web Page Email: dyurovsk@indiana.edu