Dissertations Directed and Former Graduate Students
While at TCU I ran a very successful research and training laboratory known as the
Perceptual Dynamics Laboratory. I supervised eight students through the PhD degree (7 were TCU graduate students and 1 was a Visiting Scholar from the University of Trieste) and also provided training in research to numerous undergraduates. Of the seven TCU graduate students, after completing their dissertations, four entered tenure-track positions, two accepted post-doctoral research positions, and one entered industry (and is now working in social services).
Here's an alphabetical list of the graduate students (and their current positions, if known) who completed their doctoral dissertation (and the remainder of their PhD) under my supervision:
- William Collier, M.A., M.S., Ph.D.
- Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, University of North Carolina at Pembroke, NC
- Dissertation Title: The Roles of Pitch and Emotion in Immediate Recall
- Jon Courtney, M.S., Ph.D.
- Data Evaluation Specialist, CYFD/Protective Services, Research & Evaluation Unit, Santa FE, NM
- Dissertation Title: Examining Memory for Area and Distance: Untangling the Relationship Between Memory Psychophysics and Boundary Extension
- Darcee Datteri, M.S., Ph.D.
- current position unknown; previously Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Wichita State University, KS
- Dissertation Title: Music, Figures, and Word, Oh My! The Influence of Music on Stick Figure and Word Perception: An Audiovisual Gestalt Investigation
- Alessia Favretto, Ph.D.
- collaborator in Perception and Memory, Department of Psychology, Trieste University, Italy; co-founder of ADI-Trieste
- Dissertation Title: Displaced Representations of Targets Undergoing Luminance Transformations
- Paul Galvin, M.S., Ph.D.
- Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, Framington State College, MA
- Dissertation Title: Facilitation of Religious Experiences: The Role of Music and Situational Factors
- Joanna Hutchison, M.S., Ph.D.
- Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Dallas/UT Southwestern, Dallas, TX
- Dissertation Title: Boundary Extension in the Auditory Domain
- Michael Motes, M.A., Ph.D.
- Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Dallas/UT Southwestern, Dallas, TX
- Dissertation Title: Entrainment Engagement
- Susan Ruppel, M.A., M.S., Ph.D.
- Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, University of South Carolina -- Upstate, Spartanburg, SC
- Dissertation Title: Representational Momentum, Attention, and the Flash-lag Effect
Here's an alphabetical list of the graduate students who completed a Master's thesis under my supervision:
- Jessica Blessum
- Thesis Title: Representational Momentum and Field Dependence/Independence
- William Collier
- Thesis Title: judgments of Affect, Brighness, and Speed of Auditory Stimuli: An Experimental Study on the Effect of Musical Pitch and Tempo
- Jon Courtney
- Thesis Title: Stimulus Continuity as it Relates to Illusory Events: Relationships of Stimulus Structure
- Darcee Datteri
- Thesis Title: Influences of Concurrent Auditory Frequency on the Perception of an Ambiguous Visual Stimulus
- Paul Galvin
- Thesis Title: The Family Resembleance of Religious Individuals: Building a Religiosity Scale
- Anu Kumar
- Thesis Title: Effects of Feedback on Representational Momentum
- Susan Ruppel
- Thesis Title: Some Dynamcis of Pointing: Priming a Direction of Displacement