Professor

Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience

Office: 217A Hobbs
Phone: 615-322-8347
Fax: 615-343-9494
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Curriculum Vitae

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Degrees

• Ph.D. (University of Minnesota, 1978)

Research Area

• Developmental Psychology and Cognitive Studies

Current Positions

• Professor of Psychology, Peabody College; Investigator, Vanderbilt Kennedy Center for Research on Human Development.

Representative Publications

• Rieser, J.J., Pick, H.L., Ashmead, D.H. & Garing, A.E. (1995). Calibration of human locomotion and models of perceptual-motor organization. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 21, 480-497.
• Rieser, J.J., Garing, A.E, & Young, M.F. (1994). Imagery, action, and your children's spatial orientation: It's not being there that counts, it's what one has in mind. Child Development, 65, 1262-1278.
• Rieser, J.J., Hill, E.W. & Taylor, C.R. (1992). Visual experience, visual field size, and the development of non visual sensitivity to the spatial structure of outdoor neighborhoods explored by walking. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 121, 210-221.

Biography

Department of Psychology and Human Development. Professor Rieser's research is focused on development and how perception, representation (imagination), and action come to act in concert as a coordinated system. Through mainly experimental studies with toddlers, children, adults and visually impaired adults, he is probing the functional organization of the system and the system's limits.