Department of Psychology and
Human Development
Vanderbilt University
Peabody College # 512
230 Appleton Place
(615) 322-1518
Email: daniel.t.levin@vanderbilt.edu
Education and Employment
B.A. Reed College, Portland, Oregon (1989) Major: Psychology
Awards and Honors: Commendations for Excellence (1986 and 1987); Amati Brodi Scholarship (1988); Phi Beta Kappa
Ph.D. Cornell University (1997) Area: Human Experimental Psychology
Awards and Honors: NSF Graduate Fellowship Competition: Honorable Mention (1992); Sage Graduate Fellowship (1992-1996)
8/97 8/02: Assistant Professor of Psychology, Kent State University
9/02 8/03: Associate Professor of Psychology, Kent State University
Awards and Honors: Division 3 APA New Investigator Award (2001)
8/03 Current: Associate Professor of Psychology and Human Development, Vanderbilt University
Grants
Feature Selection and the Cross-Race Recognition Deficit. One-year NIMH B/START grant (#1 R03 MH60137-01) for $35,500. Funded for budget period of 5/99 to 4/00.
Thinking and Seeing: Visual Metacognition and the Legal Process. Three-year NSF grant (#SES-0214969) funded for $250,000 starting 9/02.
Publications
Levin, D.T. (1996). Classifying faces by race: The structure of face categories. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition, 22, 1364-1382.
Simons, D.J., & Levin, D.T. (1997). Change Blindness. Trends in Cognitive Science, 1, 261-267.
Levin, D.T., & Simons, D.J. (1997). Failure to detect changes to attended objects in motion pictures. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 4, 501-506.
Keil, F.C., Smith, W.C., Simons, D.J., & Levin, D.T. (1998). Two dogmas of conceptual empiricism: Implications for hybrid models of the structure of knowledge. Cognition, 65, 103-135.
Simons, D.J., & Levin, D.T. (1998). Failure to detect changes to people during a real-world interaction. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 5, 644-649.
Keil, F.C., Levin, D.T., Richman, B.A., & Gutheil, G. (1999). Mechanism and explanation in the development of biological thought: The case of disease. In Medin, D.L., & Atran, S. (Eds.), Folkbiology. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Levin, D.T. (1999). [Review of the book Inattentional Blindness]. Perception, 28, 1303-1304.
Levin, D.T., & Beale, J. (2000). Categorical perception occurs in newly learned faces, cross-race faces, and inverted faces. Perception and Psychophysics, 62, 386-401.
Levin, D.T., Momen, N., Drivdahl, S.B., & Simons, D.J. (2000). Change blindness blindness: The metacognitive error of overestimating change-detection ability. Visual Cognition, 7, 397-412.
Levin, D.T. (2000). Race as a visual feature: Using visual search and perceptual discrimination tasks to understand face categories and the cross-race recognition deficit. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 129, 559-574.
Levin, D.T., & Simons, D.J. (2000). Fragmentation and continuity in motion pictures and the real world. Media Psychology, 2, 357-380.
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., & 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., 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.
Simons,
D. J., Chabris, C. F., Schnur, T. T., & Levin, D. T. (2002). Evidence for preserved representations
in change blindness. Consciousness
and Cognition, 11, 78-97.
Levin,
D.T., & Angelone, B.L. (2002). Categorical perception of race. Perception, 31, 567-578.
Levin, D.T. (2002). Change blindness blindness as visual metacognition. Journal of Consciousness Studies, 9, 111-130.
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.
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.
Simons, D.J., & Levin, D.T. (2003). What makes change blindness interesting? In D.E. Irwin & B.H. Ross (Eds.), The psychology of learning and motivation, Vol. 42 (pp. 295-322). San Diego, CA: Academic Press.
Angelone, B.L., Levin, D.T., & Simons, D.J. (2003). The roles of representation and comparison failures in change blindness. Perception. 32, 947-962.
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.
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.
Scholl, B.J., Simons, D.J., & Levin, D.T. (2004). Change Blindness¹ Blindness: An Implicit Measure of a Metacognitive Error. In D. T. Levin (Ed), Thinking and Seeing: Visual Metacognition in Adults and Children. Cambridge MA: MIT Press.
Mitroff, S.R., Simons, D.J., & Levin, D.T. (in press). Nothing compares 2 views: Change blindness can result from failures to compare retained information. Perception and Psychophysics
Beck, M.R., Angelone, B.L., & Levin, D.T. (in press). The role of knowledge about the probability of change in detecting changes. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance
Varakin, D.A., Levin, D.T., & Fidler, R. (in press). Unseen and unaware: Applications of recent research on failures of visual awareness for human-computer interface design.
Beck, M.R., & Levin, D.T. (revision in prep). Understanding the active process of vision.
Wayand, J.W., Levin, D.T., & Varakin, D.A. (in review). Inattentional blindness for a noxious multimodal stimulus.
Varakin, D.A., & Levin, D.T. (in review). How can visual memory be so good if change detection is so bad? Visual representations get rich so they can act poor.
Arrington, J.G., Levin, D.T., & Varakin, D.A. (in review). Color onsets and offsets, and luminance changes can cause change blindness.
Levin, D.T., & Takarae, Y. (submitted). Visual search for natural objects.
Levin, D.T., & Banaji, M.R. (in prep). Distortions in the perceived lightness of faces.
Conference Presentations and Published Abstracts
Levin, D.T. (1995). Visual search for a complex feature: Group membership of faces. Poster presented at the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology conference, Ft. Lauderdale, FL.
Levin, D.T. (1996). Locating exceptions: Implications of a search asymmetry for race. Poster presented at the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology conference, Ft. Lauderdale, FL.
Andrews, W.M., Levin, D.T., & Field, D.J. (1996). Face space, principle components, and the vectors of emotion. Poster presented at the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology conference, Ft. Lauderdale, FL.
Levin, D.T. (1996). Association, feature selection, and the cross race recognition deficit. Presentation at the Workshop on Object Perception and Memory, Chicago, Ill.
Levin, D.T., Miner, A.G., & Keil, F.C. (1997). Understanding the visual information that drives visual search for kind. Poster presented at the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology conference, Ft. Lauderdale, FL.
Levin, D.T. (1998). Coordinating views in motion pictures: Presentation at the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology conference, Ft. Lauderdale, FL.
Levin, D.T., Momen, N, & Beale, J. (1998). Categorical Perception in Faces and Races. Poster presentation at the Psychonomics Conference, Dallas, TX.
Levin, D.T., Momen, N., Drivdahl, S.B., & Simons, D.J. (1999). Change blindness blindness: A new metacognitive error. Poster presentation at the Vision Research conference, Ft. Lauderdale, FL.
Levin, D.T., & Lacruz, I. (1999). An alternative to the encoding expertise explanation for the cross race recognition deficit. Poster presentation at the Psychonomics conference, Los Angeles, CA.
Levin, D.T., & Lacruz, I. (2000). Encoding expertise cannot explain the cross-race recognition deficit: A social-cognitive account of inaccurate recognition performance. Poster presentation at the Personality and Social Psychology conference, Nashville, TN.
Angelone, B.L., Levin, D.T., & Simons, D.J. (2000). Change blindness and memory: Accuracy is the key. Poster presented at the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology conference, Ft. Lauderdale, FL.
Beck, M.R., & Levin, D.T. (2000). Recognizing Pre- and Post-change objects: The effects of array size and strategy shifts. Poster presented at the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology conference, Ft. Lauderdale, FL.
Levin, D.T., & Takarae, Y. (2000). The role of shape, typicality, and function in predicting search slopes for natural objects. Poster presented at the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology conference, Ft. Lauderdale, FL.
Takarae, Y., & Levin, D.T. (2000). Is the visual system organized by category? Identifying features that distinguish animals and artifacts. Poster presented at the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology conference, Ft. Lauderdale, FL.
Levin, D.T., & Beck, M.R. (2000). Change blindness blindness: A metacognitive error in which participants believe that change blindness does not occur. Poster presentation at the Psychonomics conference, New Orleans, LA.
Scholl, B.J., Simons, D.J., & Levin, D.T. (2000). Implicit beliefs about change detection and change blindness, Paper presentation at the Psychonomics conference, New Orleans, LA.
Angelone, B.L., & Levin, D.T. (2001). Change Blindness and modes of processing: Are representation and comparison independent? Poster presented at the Vision Sciences conference, Sarasota, FL.
Beck, M.R., & Levin, D.T. (2001). The role of beliefs about intention in producing change blindness blindness. Poster presented at the Vision Sciences conference, Sarasota, FL.
Takarae, Y., & Levin, D.T. (2001). Is the pen mightier than the pen-axe: Correct and incorrect conjunctions of parts in visual search for everyday objects. Poster presented at the Vision Sciences conference, Sarasota, FL.
Wayand, J., & Levin, D.T. (2001). Ignoring a merciless act. Poster presented at the Vision Sciences conference, Sarasota, FL.
Levin, D.T. (2001). Visual metacognitions underlying change blindness blindness and estimates of picture memory. Poster presented at the Vision Sciences conference, Sarasota, FL.
Levin, D.T. (2002). Intentional theory of mind combined with mischaracterizations of visual attention produce drastic errors of visual metacognition in adults. Paper presentation at the Psychonomics conference, Kansas City, KS.
Angelone, B.L. & Levin, D.T. (2002). Visual short-term memory load and detecting feature changes. Poster presented at the Vision Sciences conference, Sarasota, FL.
Beck, M.R., & Levin, D.T. (2002). The role of object stability in change blindness and change blindness blindness. Poster presented at the Vision Sciences conference, Sarasota, FL.
Varakin, D.A., & Levin, D.T. (2003). The relationship between incidental and intentional change detection and long-term recognition. Poster presented at the Vision Sciences conference, Sarasota, FL.
Levin, D.T., & Varakin, D.A. (2003). Failure to detect brief disruptions to visual events. Poster presented at the Vision Sciences conference, Sarasota, FL.
Beck, M.R., & Levin, D.T. (2003). The Guidance of Visual Attention: Using and Acquiring Knowledge about the Probability of Change. Poster presented at the Vision Sciences conference, Sarasota, FL.
Levin, D.T. (pending 2004). Visual Search for Rare Targets. Vision Sciences conference, Sarasota, FL.
Invited Talks
Levin, D.T. (1996, July). Implicit and explicit perceptual theory in the development of motion pictures. Invited talk at the Scene Perception Workshop: Max Planck Institute, Tubingen, Germany.
Simons, D. J. & Levin, D.T. (1997, May). Representing objects during dynamic events. Invited talk at the Symposium on Recognizing Large Changes to Natural Scenes at the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology conference, Ft. Lauderdale, FL.
Levin, D.T. (1998, February). Coordinating views in motion pictures. Invited talk at the Annual Interdisciplinary Conference, Jackson, WY.
Levin, D.T. (1998, March). Perception, cognition, and motion pictures: Creating and combining views. University of Indiana Cognitive Science Colloquium.
Levin, D.T. (1999, Nov).
Constraining high-level vision: The roles of feature selection and similarity
in understanding real-world object perception. UC Davis, Department of
Psychology Colloquium.
Levin, D.T. (1999, Dec). Change
blindness and change blindness blindness: Two ways of not seeing. Oberlin
College, Department of Psychology Colloquium.
Levin, DT. (2000, Jan).
Constraining high-level vision: The roles of feature selection and similarity
in understanding real-world object perception. Indiana University, Cognitive
brown bag colloquium.
Levin, D.T. (2000, Jan). Change
blindness and change blindness blindness: Two ways of not seeing. University of
Pittsburgh, Cognitive brown bag Colloquium.
Levin, D.T. (2001, Jan). Change
blindness and change blindness blindness: Two ways of not seeing. Carnegie
Mellon University, Department of Social and Decision Sciences.
Levin, D.T. (2001, May). Cognitive
failures underlying change blindness in incidental paradigms. Preconference on change blindness
before the American Association for the Study of Consciousness conference in
Durham, NC.
Levin, D.T. (2001, May). Relationships among metacognitions about visual attention, change blindness blindness and estimates of picture memory. Invited talk at the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness Conference, Durham, NC.
Levin, D.T. (2001, Oct). Change
blindness and change blindness blindness: Two ways of not seeing. University of
Kentucky, Louisville, Psychology Department Colloquium.
Levin, D.T. (2001, Nov).
Constraining high level vision: The role of categories in face perception and
visual search. Harvard University Psychology Department Colloquium.
Levin, D.T. (2002, Oct). Concepts
and categories in face perception. Reed College Departmental Colloquium.
Levin, D.T. (2002, Oct). Attention and intention in change
blindness and change blindness blindness. University of Oregon Departmental
Colloquium.
Levin, D.T. (2003, May). Visual
metacongition: Thinking and seeing.
University of Illinois: Champaign Urbana Departmental Colloquium.
Levin, D.T. (2003, May). Visual
metacognition: Thinking about seeing. Invited Talk at the 2003 Midwestern
Psychological Association meeting.
Levin, D.T. (2004, January). On-line seeing & expertise: Initial hypotheses, informed guesses, and rank speculation. Invited talk at the eighth Perceptual Expertise Network meeting, Nashville, TN.
Teaching Experience
Instructor: Cognitive Psychology
Instructor: Graduate Cognitive Psychology
Instructor: Graduate Seminar in Visual Cognition
Instructor: Graduate Seminar in Concepts
Instructor: General Psychology
Instructor: General Psychology on the web
Other Professional Employment
Research Assistant, Dept. of Psychiatry, VA Medical Center,
Portland, OR. (2/90-8/92).
Research Fellowship, Neurological Sciences Institute, Portland, OR. (6/87-8/87).
Professional Affiliations and Other
Activities
Member: Psychonomics Society, Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Vision Sciences.
Consulting Editor: Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance (2003)
Ad Hoc Reviewer: Psychological Science; Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance; Behavior Research, Methods, Instruments and Computers; Visual Cognition; Social Cognition; Memory and Cognition; Perception and Psychophysics; Pragmatics and Cognition; National Science Foundation; Psychology, Public Policy and Law; Journal of Experimental Psychology: General; Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied; Behavioral and Brain Sciences; Object Perception and Memory Conference; CRDF Cooperative Grants Program.
References
Robert L. Goldstone Frank C. Keil
Professor of Psychology Professor of Psychology
Indiana University Bloomington Department of Psychology
Department of Psychology Yale
University
Indiana University 2
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Bloomington, IN. 47405 P.O.
Box 208205
Office Phone: 812-855-4853 New
Haven, CT 06520-8205
Email: rgoldsto@indiana.edu Office Phone: 203-432-2389
Email:
frank.keil@yale.edu
Jonathan Schooler
Professor of Psychology
635 L.R.D.C., 3939 O¹Hara St.
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA 15260
Office Phone: 412-624-7478
Email: schooler+@pitt.edu