Education
2005-2008 Harvard University Ph.D. in psychology
2003-2005 Harvard University M.A. in psychology
1998-2002 Vanderbilt University B.S. in computer science and psychology
Graduated summa cum laude
Research Positions
2008-present Postdoctoral associate, Yale University, Dept. of Psychology
Advisor: Marvin Chun
2003-2008 Graduate Student (NSF Fellowship), Harvard University
Advisors: Yuhong Jiang, Ken Nakayama
2002-2003 Research computer programmer, Vanderbilt University
Programmed experiments and research tools for Thomas Palmeri, Isabel Gauthier, and Randolph Blake
Honors and Awards
| 2009 | Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics' "Best Article of 2009" Award |
| 2008 | European Conference for Visual Perception Student Travel Award |
| 2007 | Summer Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience Fellowship, UCSB |
| 2007 | Vision Sciences Society Student Travel Award |
| 2005 | Cognitive Science Society Student Travel Award |
| 2003 | National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship (taken 2005-2008) |
| 2002 | Program in Computer Science Award, Vanderbilt School of Engineering (awarded to one graduating senior in the major) |
| 1998 | National Merit Scholarship |
Teaching Experience
Fall 2005 Head Teaching Fellow, Vision and Brain
Fall 2004 Teaching Fellow, Statistical methods for psychology (Grad-level)
Ad-Hoc Reviewing
Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics
Experimental Psychology
Frontiers in Neuroscience
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance
Journal of Vision
Psychological Science
Visual Cognition
Publications
Vickery, T.J., Chun, M.M. (in press). Object-based warping: An illusory distortion of space within objects. Psychological Science.
Vickery, T.J., Sussman, R.S., & Jiang, Y.V. (in press). Spatial context learning survives interference from working memory load. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance.
Shim, W.M., Alvarez, G.A., Vickery, T.J., & Jiang, Y.V. (2010). The Number of Attentional Foci and Their Precision Are Dissociated in the Posterior Parietal Cortex. Cerebral Cortex.
Vickery, T.J., & Jiang, Y.V. (2009). Associative grouping: Perceptual grouping of shapes by association. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 71 (4), pp. 896-909. [This article was selected for AP&P's "Best Article of 2009 Award"]
Vickery, T.J., Shim, W.M., Chakravarthi, R., Jiang, Y.V., and Luedeman, R.L. (in press). Supercrowding: Weakly masking a target greatly enhances crowding. Journal of Vision.
Vickery, T.J., & Jiang, Y.V. (in press). Inferior parietal lobule supports decision-making under uncertainty in humans. Cerebral Cortex.
Vickery T.J. (2008). Induced perceptual grouping. Psychological Science, 19(7): 693-701.
Vickery T.J., King L.-W., & Jiang Y. (2005). Setting up the target template in visual search. Journal Of Vision, 5(1), 81-92.
Jiang, Y., Kumar A., & Vickery T.J. (2005). Integrating visual arrays in visual-short term memory. Experimental Psychology, 52, 39-46.
Refereed conference papers
Vickery, T.J., & Chun, M.M. (2009).
Vickery, T.J., Hartshorne, J.H., Jiang, Y.V. (2007). Learning to form new perceptual groups. Proceedings of the Object Perception, Attention, and Memory Conference.
Vickery, T.J. (2005), Opponent models and heuristic strategies for simple games. Proceedings of the Twenty-Seventh Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.
Manuscripts
Vickery, T.J., Chun, M.M. (submitted). Object distortion: Warped spatial perception within objects.
Invited talks
Vickery, T.J. (2010). Supercrowding. Invited talk at a symposium on crowding at Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness.
Vickery, T.J., Shim, W.M., Chakravarthi, R., Jiang, Y.V., and Luedeman, R.L. (2008). Breaking the bound: Weakly masking a target greatly enhances crowding. Invited talk for symposium on crowding at European Conference for Visual Perception.
Conference abstracts
Vickery, T.J., and Chun, M.M. (2010). Warped spatial perception within and near objects. Vision Sciences Society 2010.
Vickery, T.J., and Chun, M.M. (2009). Basic visual representations are altered by rewards. Vision Sciences Society 2009.
Vickery, T.J., Shim, W.M., Chakravarthi, R., Jiang, Y.V., and Luedeman, R.L. (2008). Supercrowding: Weakly masking a target greatly enhances crowding. Vision Sciences Society 2008.
Jiang, Y.V., Vickery, T.J. (2007). Neural differentiation of the sources of uncertainty in decision-making tasks. Society for Neuroscience 2007.
Vickery, TJ., Shim, WM, Chakravarthi, R, Jiang, YV, and Luedeman, RL (2007). Enclosure of a target enhances crowding. Society for Neuroscience 2007.
Vickery, T.J., Jiang, Y.V. (2007). Second-order perceptual grouping. Vision Sciences
Society 2007.
Hartshorne, J.H., Vickery, T.J., Jiang, Y.V. (2007). Dissociation between categorization
and search. Vision Sciences Society 2007.
Vickery, T.J., Jiang, Y.V. (2006). Neural dissociation of attention and decision-making under uncertainty. Psychonomics Society 2006.
Vickery, T.J., Jiang, Y.V. (2006). Inferior parietal lobule supports decision-making under uncertainty. Society for Neuroscience 2006.
Matthews, C., Eng, H., Vickery, T.J., Shim, W.M., Jiang, Y.V. (2006). Learning of arbitrary visual associations by trial-and-error,” Vision Sciences 2006.
Vickery, T. J., Sussman, R.S., Jiang, Y.V. (2006). Selective attention and general attentional resources in the learning of spatial context. Vision Sciences 2006.
Shim, W.M., Alvarez, G.A., Vickery, T.J., Jiang, Y.V. (2006) Effects of spatial and non-spatial attentional load on posterior parietal cortex. Vision Sciences 2006.
Vickery, T.J., Jiang, Y. (2005). Attention and competitive decision making, Vision Sciences 2005.
Vickery, T.J., Jiang, Y. (2004). Setting up the target template in visual search. Psychonomics Society 2004.
Vickery, T.J., Jiang, Y. (2004) Perceptual set switching: How are target templates changed in visual tasks? Vision Sciences 2004.
Kumar, A., Vickery, T.J., Jiang, Y. (2004). Integrating sequential arrays in visual short-term memory. Vision Sciences 2004.
Vickery, T.J., Gauthier, I. (2003). Keeping a straight face: configural processing and the aperture capture illusion. Vision Sciences 2003.