People

Current Lab Members

Daniel Levin, PhD :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::

Professor of Psychology
Department of Psychology and Human Development
Vanderbilt University

Madison Lee ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::

Graduate Student in Cognition in Context

Lab Alumni – Graduate Students

Bonnie Angelone :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::

PhD, Kent State University, 2003

Professor of Psychology

Rowan University

Bonnie’s publications from her time in the lab:

Levin, D.T., & Angelone, B. L. (2001). Visual search for a socially defined feature: What causes the search asymmetry favoring cross-race faces? Perception and Psychophysics, 63, 423-435.

Levin, D.T., Simons, D.J., Angelone, B.L., & Chabris, C.F. (2002). Memory for centrally attended changing objects in an incidental real-world change detection paradigm. British Journal of Psychology, 93, 289-302.

Angelone, B.L., Levin, D.T., & Simons, D.J. (2003). The roles of representation and comparison failures in change blindness. Perception. 32, 947-962.

Beck, M.R., Angelone, B.L., & Levin, D.T. (2004). The role of knowledge about the probability of change in detecting changes. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 30, 778-791.

Lewis Baker :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::

PhD, Vanderbilt University 2016

Director of Data Science

pymetrics

Lewis’s publications from his time in the lab:

Levin, D.T., Hymel, A.M., & Baker, L. (2013). Belief, desire, action, and other stuff: Theory of mind in movies. In A. Shimamura (Ed.) Psychocinematics: Exploring Cognition at the Movies, (pp. 244-266), Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.

Baker, L.J., & Levin, D.T. (2015). The role of relational triggers in event perception. Cognition, 136, 14-29.

Hymel, A.M., Levin, D.T., & Baker, L.J. (2016). Default processing of event sequences. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 42, 235-246.

Baker, L.J., & Levin, D.T. (2016). The Face-Race Lightness Illusion is Not Driven by Low-level Stimulus Properties: An Empirical Reply to Firestone & Scholl (2014). Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 23, 1989-1995.

Baker, L.J., Levin, D.T., & Saylor, M.M. (2016). The extent of default visual perspective taking in complex layouts. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance. 42(4), 508-16.

Baker, L.J., Hymel, A.M., & Levin, D.T. (2016). Anthropomorphism and intentionality improve memory for events. Discourse Processes.

Levin, D.T., & Baker, L.J. (2017). Bridging views in cinema: A review of the art and science of view integration. WIREs Cognitive Science, DOI: 10.1002/wcs.1436

Melissa Beck :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::

PhD, Kent State University 2003

Professor of Psychology

Louisiana State University

Melissa’s publications from her time in the lab:

Levin, D.T., Drivdahl, S.B., Momen, N., & Beck, M.R. (2002). False predictions about the detectability of unexpected visual changes: The role of beliefs about attention, memory, and the continuity of attended objects in causing change blindness blindness. Consciousness and Cognition, 11, 507-527.

Beck, M.R., & Levin, D.T. (2003). The role of representational volatility in recognizing pre- and postchange objects. Perception and Psychophysics, 65, 458-468.

Levin, D.T., & Beck, M.R. (2004). Thinking about seeing: Spanning the difference between metacognitive failure and success. In D.T. Levin (Ed), Thinking and Seeing: Visual Metacognition in Adults and Children. Cambridge MA: MIT Press.

Beck, M.R., Levin, D.T., & Angelone, B.L. (2007). Change blindness blindness: Beliefs about the roles of intention and scene complexity in change detection. Consciousness and Cognition, 16, 31-51.

Chris Jaeger ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::

PhD, Vanderbilt University 2019

Assistant Professor of Law

Baylor University

Chris’s publications:

Jaeger, C.B., & Levin, D.T. (2016). If Asimo thinks, does Roomba feel?: The legal implications of promiscuous and selective attributions of agency to technology. Journal of Human-Robot Interaction. 5(3), 3-25.

Jaeger, C.B., Levin, D.T., & Porter, E. (2017). Justice is (Change) Blind: Applying Research on Visual Metacognition in Legal Settings. Psychology, Public Policy, and Law. 23(2), 259-279.

Jaeger, C.B., Hymel, A.M., Levin, D.T., Biswas, G., Paul, N., & Kinnebrew, J. (2019). The interrelationship between concepts about agency and students’ use of teachable-agent learning technology. Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 4:14.

Jaeger, C.B., Little, J.W., & Levin, D.T. (in press). The prevalence and utility of formal features in YouTube screen-capture instructional videos. Technical Communication.

Jaeger, C. B., & Trueblood, J. S. (in review). Rethinking rationality: Legal implications and applications of quantum decision-making.

Jaeger, C. B., Jones, O. D., Brosnan, S. F., & Levin, D. T. (in progress). A new theory of the endowment effect: A meta-analytic test.

Stephen Killingsworth :::::::::::::::::::::::

PhD, Vanderbilt University 2012

GoNoodle

Software Developer

Stephen’s publications from his time in the lab:

Levin, D.T., Killingsworth, S.S., Saylor, M.M. (2008). Concepts about the capabilities of computers and robots: A test of the scope of adults’ theory of mind. Proceedings of the 3rd Annual IEEE International Workshop on Human and Robot Interaction, 3, 57-64.

Killingsworth, S.S., Saylor, M.M., & Levin, D.T. (2011). Analyzing action for agents with varying cognitive capacities. Social Cognition, 29, 56-73.

Levin, D.T., Killingsworth, S.S., Saylor, M.M., Gordon, S., & Kawamura, K. (2013). Tests of concepts about different kinds of minds: Predictions about the behavior of comptuers, robots, and people. Human-Computer Interaction. 28:2, 161-191.

Alex Varakin :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::

PhD, Vanderbilt University 2006

Eastern Kentucky University

Professor of Psychology

Alex’s publications from his time in the lab:

Levin, D.T., & Varakin, D.A. (2004). No pause for a brief disruption: Failures to detect interruptions to ongoing events. Consciousness and Cognition, 13, 363-372.

Varakin, D.A., Levin, D.T., & Fidler, R. (2004). Unseen and unaware: Applications of recent research on failures of visual awareness for human-computer interface design. Human-Computer Interaction, 19, 389-421.

Wayand, J.W., Levin, D.T., & Varakin, D.A. (2005). Inattentional blindness for a noxious multimodal stimulus. American Journal of Psychology, 118, 339-352.

Varakin, D.A., & Levin, D.T. (2006). How can visual memory be so good if change detection is so bad? Visual representations get rich so they can act poor. British Journal of Psychology, 91, 51-77.

Levin, D.T., Saylor, M.M., Varakin, D.A., Gordon, S.M., Kawamura, K, & Wilkes, D.M. (2006). Thinking about thinking in computers, robots, and people. Proceedings of the 5^th Annual International Conference on Development and Learning, 5, 49.

Arrington, J.G., Levin, D.T., & Varakin, D.A. (2006). Color onsets and offsets, and luminance changes can cause change blindness. Perception, 35, 1665-1678.

Varakin, D.A., Levin, D.T., & Collins, K. (2007). Comparison and representation failures both cause real-world change blindness. Perception, 36, 737-749.

Varakin, D.A., & Levin, D.T. (2008). Scene structure enhances change detection. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. 61, 543-551.

Beck, M. R., Angelone, B.A., Levin, D.T., Peterson, M.S., & Varakin, D.A. (2008) Implicit learning for probable changes in a visual change detection task. Consciousness and Cognition, 17, 1192-1208.

Yukari Takarae :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::

PhD, Kent State University 2003

UC San Diego Health

Assistant Project Scientist

Yukari’s publications from her time in the lab:

Takarae, Y., & Levin, D.T. (2001). Animals and artifacts may not be treated equally: Differentiating strong and weak forms of category specific visual agnosia. Brain and Cognition, 45, 249-264.

Levin, D.T., Takarae, Y., Miner, A., & Keil, F.C. (2001). Efficient visual search by category: Specifying the features that mark the difference between artifacts and animals in preattentive vision. Perception and Psychophysics , 63, 676-697.

Joe Wayand ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::

PhD, Kent State University 2003

Walsh University

Associate Professor of Psychology

Joe’s publication from his time in the lab:

Wayand, J.W., Levin, D.T., & Varakin, D.A. (2005). Inattentional blindness for a noxious multimodal stimulus. American Journal of Psychology, 118, 339-352.

Jonathan Herberg :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::

PhD, Vanderbilt University 2011

Microsoft.

Data Scientist

Jonathan’s publications from his time in the lab:

Herberg, J.S., Saylor, M.M., Ratanaswasd, R., Levin, D.T., Wilkes, M. (2008). Audience-contingent variation in action demonstrations for humans and computers. Cognitive Science, 32, 1003-1020.

Herberg, J.S., Levin, D.T., & Saylor, M, M. (2012). Social audiences can disrupt learning by teaching. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 48 (1), 213-219.

Lab Alumni – Undergraduate Researchers

*Note – this is a very incomplete list! It’s based in large part on who we have pictures of. We love hearing from former lab members, so lets us know what you are doing, send a picture, and we’ll get you on the list.