Work Address: 101 Haggar Hall
Department of Psychology
University of Notre Dame
Notre Dame, IN 46556
Office: (219) 631-7138
e-mail: Gibson.16@ND.edu
web: www.nd.edu/~bgibson
Home Address: 134 Wakewa Ave.
South Bend, IN 46617
(219) 234-2241
EDUCATION
Ph.D. 1987 to 1992 University of Arizona
Dissertation: "Representations of Shape in Memory"
B.S. 1978 to 1982 Colorado State University
Senior Thesis: "The Convergence of Kuhn and Cognitive Psychology"
APPOINTMENTS
1994 to Present Assistant Professor, University of Notre Dame
1992 to 1994 NIMH Postdoctoral Fellowship in Cognitive Neuropsychology,
Johns Hopkins University
1989 to 1992 Research Assistant, with Mary A. Peterson,
University of Arizona
1989 Research Assistant, with Lynn A. Cooper,
Columbia University.
1988 Research Assistant, with Merrill Garrett,
University of Arizona.
1985 Neuropsychological Testing,
Institute of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation,
Peoria, Illinois
1982 to 1984 Neuropsychological Testing, with Peter Kaplan,
Private Practice, Fort Collins, Colorado
PUBLICATIONS
Gibson, B.S. (1985). The convergence of Kuhn and cognitive psychology. New Ideas in Psychology, 4, 110-121.
Gibson, B.S. (1985). Reply: The convergence of Kuhn and cognitive psychology. New Ideas in Psychology, 5, 80-86.
Peterson, M.A. & Gibson. B.S. (1991). Directing spatial attention within an object: Altering the functional equivalence of shape descriptions. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 17, 170-182.
Peterson, M.A. & Gibson, B.S. (1991). The intial identification of figure-ground relationships: Contributions from shape recognition processes. Bulletin of the Psychonomic Society, 29, 199-202.
Peterson, M.A. & Gibson, B.S. (1993). Shape recognition contributions to figure-ground organization in three-dimensional displays. Cognitive Psychology, 25, 383-429.
Gibson, B.S. (1994). Visual attention and objects: One versus two or convex versus concave? Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 20, 203-207.
Gibson, B.S. & Egeth, H. (1994). Inhibition of return to object-based and environment-based locations. Perception & Psychophysics, 55, 323-339.
Gibson, B.S. & Peterson, M.A. (1994). Does orientation-independent object recognition precede orientation-dependent recognition? Evidence from a cuing paradigm. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 20, 299-316.
Yantis, S. & Gibson, B.S. (1994). Object continuity in apparent motion and attention.
Special Issue: Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology, 48, 198-204.
Peterson, M.A. & Gibson, B.S. (1994). Must figure-ground organization precede object recognition? An assumption in peril. Psychological Science, 5, 253-259.
Peterson, M.A. & Gibson, B.S. (1994). Object recognition contributions to figure-ground organization: Operations on outlines and subjective contour. Perception & Psychophysics, 56, 551-564.
Gibson, B.S. & Egeth, H. (1994). Inhibition and disinhibition of return: Evidence from temporal order judgments. Perception & Psychophysics, 56, 669-680.
Gibson, B.S. (in press). Attentional capture and visual quality: A challenge to the special role of abrupt onsets. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance.
Gibson, B.S. (in press). The masking account of attentional capture: A reply to Yantis and Jonides (1996). Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance.
Gibson, B.S. (submitted). Goal-directed attentional capture: Toward a new criterion for involuntary attentional orienting. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance.
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
Gibson, B.S. (1984). The convergence of Kuhn and cognitive psychology. Paper presented at the Rocky Mountain Psychological Association meeting, Las Vegas, NE.
Cooper, L.A., Gibson, B.S., Mowafy, L., & Tataryn, D.J. (1987). Mental extrapolation of perceptually-driven spatial transformations. Paper presented at the 28th annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Seattle, WA.
Gibson, B.S. & Cooper, L.A. (1988). Perceiving and extrapolating continuous spatial transformations. Paper presented at the 29th annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Chicago, IL.
Gibson, B.S., Bernstein, L.J., & Cooper, L.A. (1989). Explorations of the mental mapping of three-dimensional object motion. Poster presented at the 30th annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Atlanta, GA.
Gibson, B.S. (1990). On the role of reference frames in shape perception. Paper presented at the Rocky Mountain Psychological Association meeting, Tucson, AZ.
Harvey, E.M., Peterson, M.A., & Gibson, B.S. (1990). Mechanisms of intention in figure-ground perception. Poster presented at the Rocky Mountain Psychological Association meeting, Tucson, AZ.
Peterson, M.A., & Gibson, B.S. (1990). Interactions between shape recognition and stereo fusion. Poster presented at the 31st annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, New Orleans, LA.
Schnittman, P.S., Peterson, M.A., & Gibson, B.S. (1990). Figure-ground organization of disoriented shapes: Predictions from the sharp model. Paper presented at the Rocky Mountain Psychological Association meeting, Tucson, AZ.
Peterson, M.A. & Gibson, B.S. (1991). Shape recognition contributions to the organization of three-dimensional displays. Paper presented at the 32nd annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, San Francisco, CA.
Gibson, B.S. (1992). Normalization does not require crude recognition. Poster presented at the 4th annual meeting of the American Psychological Society, San Diego, CA.
Peterson, M.A., Gibson, B.S., & Avery, D.J. (1992). Shape recognition contributions to figure-ground organization: Briefly exposed displays. Paper presented at the 25th International Congress of Psychology, Brussels.
Gibson, B.S. & Egeth, H. (1993). Inhibition of return within a depth-rotated object is orientation invariant. Poster presented at the 34th annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Washington, D.C.
Peterson, M.A. & Gibson, B.S. (1993). Shape recognition processes operate before figure-ground organization. Paper presented at the 34th annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Washington, D.C.
Gibson, B.S. & Peterson, M.A. (1994). Functional differences between familiar stimuli and novel stimuli presented at typical and atypical orientations. Paper presented at the 65th annual meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association, Providence, RI.
Gibson, B.S. & Egeth, H. (1994). The inhibition of inhibition of return: Evidence from temporal order judgments. Poster presented at the Conference for Visual Selective Attention, Champaign, IL.
Gibson, B.S. & Yantis, S. (1994). Object-specific preview slows visual search. Poster presented at the 35th annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, St. Louis, MO
Gibson, B.S. (1995). Object status and the nature of attentional control. Colloquium given to the Psychology Department at Indiana University.
Gibson, B.S. (1995). A new look at stimulus-driven attentional capture. Poster to be presented at the 37th annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Los Angeles, CA.
Gibson, B.S. (1995). Temporal precedence and the nature of attentional control. Colloquium to be given to the Psychology Department on Dec. 6th at the University of Illinois.
Kelsey, E.M. & Gibson, B.S. (1996). Top-down influences on attentional capture: Evidence for multiple attentional sets. Paper given at the annual meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association, Chicago, IL.
RESEARCH AWARDS AND HONORS
American Psychological Association Dissertation Award
University of Arizona Research Grant
ISLA (1995)
AD HOC REVIEWING
Israel Science Foundation
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition
Perception & Psychophysics
Psychological Bulletin
Psychological Review
Psychonomic Bulletin and Review
United States-Israel Binational Science Foundation
Visual Cognition
MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
American Psychological Association
American Psychological Society
Psychonomic Society (Associate)