Chair of Undergraduate Psychology, Associate Professor of Psychology
On Faculty since 2004
Office: BGC M213
Phone: (630)752-5159
Fax: (630)752-7033
Email: Raymond.Phinney@wheaton.edu
Education
Ph.D., Washington State University, 1995
M.S. Psychology, Washington State University, 1991
B.A. Psychology, Puget Sound University, 1987
About Raymond Phinney
I am interested in a variety of issues concerning visual perception, ranging from how humans use motion and depth perception to understand their peri-personal space to how visual attention deficits may contribute to dyslexia to how visual science and visual art (especialy painting and movie-making) have informed and affected one another.
I also love music. I learned saxophone in school and taught myself guitar/bass. I've been playing now for almost 20 years. I also program drums and keyboards and do multitrack recording at home. I'm also the bassist for worship at my church, Wheaton Assembly of God, and folk group Five In A Box.
Courses Taught
- Introduction to Psychology
- Learning
- Sensation and Perception
- Cognition
- Visual Science and Visual Art
- Theories and Methods of Integration
- Cognition and Emotion
Membership in Professional Societies
- Society for Neuroscience
- Assoication for Research in Vision and Ophthalmalogy
Research Interests
I am generally interested in how humans process motion and depth information and how they use this information to interact with the world. I am currently finishing some human neuroimaging studies invesitgating what cortical areas are involved with complex visual motion processing. Two broad areas of research in my lab now involve visual masking and illusory line-motion. In visual masking, a visual stimulus that is clearly perceived when presented alone is less perceivable (or even unperceivable) when a second stimulus is presented nearby in time or space (but not overlapping). In illusory line-motion, a line which is drawn all at once, is perceived to be incrementally drawn from whichever side was nearest to an attentional cue presented just before the line. Understanding these phenomena can better help us understand the role of attention in visual perception.
Publications
Articles and Papers
Lewis, J. W, Brefczynski, J. A., Phinney, R. E., Janik, J. J., DeYoe, E. A. (2005). Distinct cortical pathways for processing tool versus animal sounds. Journal of Neuroscience 25(21), 5148-58.
Lewis, J. W, Wightman, F., Brefczynski, J. A., Phinney, R. E., Binder, J. R., DeYoe, E. A. (2004). Human brain regions involved in recognizing environmental sounds. Cerebral Cortex 14(9), 1008-1021.
Siegel, R. M., Raffi, M., Phinney, R. E., Turner, J. A. & Jando, G. (2003). Functional architecture of eye position gain fields in visual association cortex of behaving monkey. Journal of Physiology, 90, 1279-1294.
Phinney, R. E., & Siegel, R. M. (2000). Speed selectivity for optic flow in area 7a of the behaving macaque. Cerebral Cortex, 10, 413-421.
Phinney, R. E., & Siegel, R. M. (1999). Stored representations of three-dimensional objects in the absence of two-dimensional cues. Perception, 28, 725-737
Patterson, R., Donnelly, M., Phinney, R., Nawrot, M., Whiting, A., and Eyle, T. (1997). Speed discrimination of stereoscopic (cyclopean) motion. Vision Research, 37(7), 871-878.
Phinney, R., Bowd, C., & Patterson, R. (1997) Direction-selective coding of stereoscopic (cyclopean) motion. Vision Research, 37(7), 865-869.
Bowd, C., Rose, D., Phinney, R., and Patterson, R. (1996). Enduring stereoscopic motion aftereffects induced by prolonged adaptation. Vision Research, 36(22), 3655-3660.
Patterson, R., Bowd, C., Phinney, R., Fox, R., and Lehmkuhle, S. (1996). Disparity tuning of the stereoscopic (cyclopean) motion aftereffect. Vision Research. 36(7), 975-983.
Patterson, R., Bowd, C., Phinney, R., Pohndorf, R., Barton-Howard, W., & Angilletta, M. (1994). Properties of the stereoscopic (cyclopean) motion aftereffect. Vision Research, 34(9), 1139-1147.
Phinney, R., Wilson, R., Hays, B., & Patterson, R. (1994). Spatial displacement limits for cyclopean apparent motion perception. Perception, 23, 1287-1300.
Phinney, R., Wilson, R., Hays, B., & Patterson, R. (1994). Spatial displacement limits for cyclopean apparent motion perception. Perception, 23, 1287-1300.
Patterson, R., Becker, S., Boucek, G. S., & Phinney R. (1994). Depth Perception in stereoscopic displays. Society for Information Display, 2(2), 105-112.