Faculty Advisor
Contact Information
Email
Lab Website
(615) 322-5522
604 Wilson Hall
Research Area
Education
Ph.D., Vanderbilt University, Psychology, 2011
B.A. Princeton University (Psychology, Neuroscience certificate) 2006
Rankin Williams McGugin
Postdoctoral Fellow
Research Area: Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience
Representative Publications
- McGugin, R.W. & Gauthier, I. (in preparation). The cognitive neuroscience of face recognition. In Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Neuroscience. New York. Oxford University Press.
- Wong, A.C.-N., Qu, Z., McGugin, R.W., Gauthier, I. (submitted). Perceptual interference between processing of characters from alphabetic and non-alphabetic writing systems.
- McKeeff, T.J., McGugin, R.W., Tong, F., & Gauthier, I. (in press). Expertise reduces the functional cerebral distrance between face and object perception.
- McGugin, R.W., Tanaka, J.W., Lebrecht, S., Tarr, M.J. & Gauthier, I. (in press). Race-specific perceptual discrimination training improvement following short individuation training with faces.
- McGugin, R.W., McKeeff, T.J., Tong, F., & Gauthier, I. (in press). Competition between domains of expertise in a visual search paradigm. Attention, Perception & Psychophysics.
- McGugin, R.W. & Gauthier, I. (2010). Perceptual expertise with objects predicts another hallmark of face perception. Journal of Vision, 10(4), doi:10.1167/10.4.15.
- McGugin, R.W. & Tanaka, J. (2010). Transfer and Generalization in Learning. In M. Banich & D. Caccamise (Eds.) Generalization of Knowledge: Multidisciplinary Perspectives. New York: Psychology Press.
- Williams, N.R., Willenbockel, V. & Gauthier, I. (2009). Sensitivity to spatial frequency and orientation content is not specific to face perception. Vision Research, 19, 2353-2362.