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Robyn Oliver
Assistant Professor of Cognitive Psychology

Roosevelt University
Psychology

               
Office Chicago Campus Schaumburg Campus
Room 1850T (Auditorium Bldg.) 360N
Phone (847) 330-4517
Hours 4:00 - 5:30 Monday 4:30 - 6:00 Thursday
E-mail roliver@roosevelt.edu
Classes Taught
Introduction to Psychology
Cognitive Psychology

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Research Interests
I am interested in how humans perceive and remember the world around them. My general interests span the fields of cognitive psychology, cognitive neuroscience and perception. My specific research interests are in the perception of surface colors and in the long term representation of object appearance attributes such as shape, size and color. Currently, I am using computer graphics and behavioral measurements to investigate memory for color information.
Publications and Presentations
Publications

Oliver, R. T., Geiger, E. J., Lewandowski, B. C., & Thompson-Schill, S. L. (2009). Remembrance of things touched: How sensorimotor experience affects the neural instantiation of object form. Neuropsychologia, 47, 239-247.

Nitzberg-Lott, S., Sample, D. M., Oliver, R.T., Lacey, E. H., Friedman, R. B. (2008) A patient with phonological alexia can learn to read “much” from “mud pies”? Neuropsychologia, 46(10), 2515-2523.

Thompson-Schill, S. L., Kan, I. P. & Oliver, R. T. (2006). “Functional neuroimaging of semantic memory.” In R. Cabeza & A. Kingstone (Eds.), The Handbook of Functional Neuroimaging of Cognition (p. 149 - 190). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Oliver, R.T. & Thompson-Schill, S. L. (2003). Dorsal stream activation during retrieval of object size and shape. Cognitive, Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience, 3(4), 309-322.

Presentations

Das, S. R., Oliver, R. T., Avants, B. B., Radoeva, P. D., Brainard, D. H., Aguirre, G. K., & Gee, J. C. (2009). A semi-automated solution for increasing the reliability of manually defined visual area boundaries. Vision Sciences Society Annual Meeting, Naples, FL.

Olkkonen, M., Oliver, R., Hansen, T., Gegenfurtner, K. R. & Brainard, D. H. (2008). Investigating color constancy for natural objects. Workshop on Perception of Material Properties in 3D scenes, 17th - 19th Oct, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA.

Oliver, R. T., Higgins, J. S., Gabrieli, J. D. E., & Thompson-Schill, S. T. (2008). Repetition priming of object appearance knowledge. Cognitive Neuroscience of Visual Knowledge: Where Vision Meets Memory, Tufts University, Medford, MA.

Oliver, R. T., Parsons, M. A., & Thompson-Schill, S. L. (2008). Hands on learning: Variations in sensorimotor experience alter the cortical response to newly learned objects. Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, CA.

Oliver, R. T., Higgins, J. S., Baek, A. & Thompson-Schill, S. L. (2007). Repetition priming of appearance knowledge. Vision Sciences Society Annual Meeting, Sarasota, FL.

Oliver, R. T., Coslett, H. B., Wolk, D., Geiger, E. J., Thompson-Schill, S. L. (2004). What does the parietal lobe know about objects Cognitive Neuroscience Society Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA.

Thompson-Schill, S. L., Oliver, R. T., Brainard, D. H., Robison, S. G. (2003) Retrieval of color information activates color perception regions. Cognitive Neuroscience Society Society Annual Meeting, New York, NY.

Swinney, D., Love, T., Oliver, R., Bouck, V. (1999). Temporal parameters in language comprehension in aphasia. The Academy of Aphasia Annual Meeting, Brain and Language, 69 (3), 337-340.

Oliver, R. & Curtin, J. (1999). Relative presentation rate as it affects primacy in recall. Poster presented at the Western Psychological Association 79th Annual Convention, Irvine, California.
Links
Vision Sciences Society (http://www.visionsciences.org/)
Cognitive Neuroscience Society (http://cogneurosociety.org/)
Rendertoolbox (http://rendertoolbox.org/)
Psychtoolbox (http://psychtoolbox.org/)
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