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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, Randolph Blake, and Isabel Gauthier
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
Psychological Science
Cognitive Science Society Conference
Publications
Shim, W.M., Alvarez, G.A., Vickery, T.J., & Jiang, Y.V. (in press). 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., 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., Sussman, R.S., & Jiang, Y.V. (under review). Spatial context learning survives interference from working memory load.
Vickery, T.J. (in preparation). The role of extrinsic grouping cues in induced perceptual grouping.
Invited talks
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. Iinvited talk for symposium on crowding at European Conference for Visual Perception.
Conference abstracts
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.