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 Kathleen Campbell demonstrates a card-sorting task she used to assess preschoolers' executive functioning in research that she did with Dr. Cecilia Shore.
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Faculty with interests
in Perception and Cognition at Miami
conduct research in the following
areas:
Areas of Research
Decision
Making |
What
information do people use to
make decisions, and how do the
use it? |
Johnson |
| Perception/Action |
How does our
perception constrain the selection
of movements used to perform
goal-directed actions, such
as reaching for an object or
stepping over a gap? |
Mark
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Visual
Perception |
What
brain mechanisms and processes
underlie our ability to see
objects and patterns? |
Olzak |
Perception/Action |
How
do people adapt their movements
to function successfully in
usual or new events or environments?
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Smart |
Perception,
Categorization & mathematical
modeling |
How do people
recognize objects and learn
to categorize them into groups?
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Thomas |
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Spatial
Cognition |
What sensory
systems do we use in order to
remain oriented in space? |
Waller |
| Memory/Consciousness |
What
kinds of information inform
consciousness and how do we
make use of this information
when attempting to remember
prior events? |
Wessels |
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