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 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.