Thomas J. Palmeri
Thomas Palmeri is a Professor of psychology at Vanderbilt University, where he is currently Chair of the Psychology department. He is also co-director of the Data Science Institute at Vanderbilt University’s Department of Psychology.[1] He heads the Category Laboratory (CatLab)[2] at Vanderbilt University’s Department of Psychology.[3]
Honors
Palmeri was Appointed Distinguished Professor at Vanderbilt, 2019 Elected Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science in 2015 and of the Psychonomics Society in 1998. He received the Chancellor’s Award for Research at Vanderbilt University in 2009 and the American Psychological Association Division of Experimental Psychology New Investigator Award, 1998.
Research interests
The CatLab investigates visual cognition, including visual categorization, visual memory, and visual decision making. Research pertains to how objects are perceived and represented by the visual system, how visual knowledge is represented and learned, and how visual decisions are made. These questions are addresses using a combination of behavioral experiments, cognitive neuroscience techniques, and computational and neural modeling.
Palmeri has made contributions on a wide range of topic areas linking experience, expertise, perception, and decision making. He has shown that the development of expertise often involves a transition from rule-based to instance-based reasoning. In other work, he ofound that experience with new categories can influence perceptual abilities. He has studied how naming objects affects their visual memory, testing prior claims that had been made but that were clearly inconsistent with all existing models of memory.
One research program in collaboration with Gordon Logan and Jeff Schall, develops neural models to account for decision-making performance in speeded response tasks and has led to several publications, including in Psychological Review, the most important theoretical outlet in psychology.
His highest cited paper is titled "An exemplar-based random walk model of speeded classification." according to Google Scholar [4]
References
- ^ "Home Page". Psychological Sciences.
- ^ "Cat Lab". catlab.psy.vanderbilt.edu.
- ^ "Home Page". Psychological Sciences.
- ^ "Thomas J. Palmeri". scholar.google.com. Retrieved June 24, 2023.
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