Experts Guide

Visual and Object Perception

	Caroline DeLong Assistant Professor Fields of Expertise: Science > Visual and Object Perception Social Sciences > Psychology
Dept/Division:	Psychology/College of Liberal Arts
E-Mail:	cmdgsh@rit.edu
News Contact:	Vienna Carvalho, vnccom@rit.edu, 585-475-4952
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DeLong's research interests are in human and animal cognition and sensory perception. Past research has focused on cognitive representation, learning, and memory in two animal groups: cetaceans (dolphins and whales) and bats. Bats are active at night, where vision is only marginally useful, and cetaceans spend time underwater at depths where light does not penetrate. Instead of relying on vision, these animals use an active mode of sound perception called echolocation (biological sonar), during which they emit high-frequency sounds which bounce off objects and produce echoes. They use these echoes to navigate, find prey, and avoid obstacles. Her research involves investigating the content of the echo images and she has conducted research with dolphins, whales, bats and human subjects. Current and ongoing research program will encompass perception research with different animal species as well as human cognitive research. DeLong teaches Introduction to Psychology, Cognitive Psychology, Psychology of Perception, Learning and Memory, Language and Problem Solving and Advanced Cognition.

Hi-Res Photo	Andrew Herbert Chair of the Department of Psychology Fields of Expertise: Science > Visual and Object Perception Social Sciences > Psychology
Dept/Division:	Liberal Arts
E-Mail:	amhgss@rit.edu
News Contact:	Vienna Carvalho, vnccom@rit.edu, 585-475-4952
Website:	www.rit.edu/cla/psychology
Andrew Herbert is an expert in visual and object perception, visual attention and how illusions work. His varied research interests including eyetracking and pattern perception, emotional expression recognition and symmetry perception. He has examined different visual illusions with the aim of understanding the perception of structure in the world and is currently researching the perception of faces and facial expressions. Herbert also has a longstanding interest in how we perceive color and objects, and plans to pursue research in these areas at some point. Herbert graduated with a B.Sc. in Biology from McGill University in Montreal and completed an M.A. and Ph.D. in Psychology at the University of Western Ontario. Before joining RIT’s faculty in 2002, he spent three years at the University of North Texas, as director of the Cognitive Neuroscience Lab in the Department of Psychology.