Associate Professor of Psychology
Director of Graduate Studies

Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience

Office: 507 Wilson Hall
Phone: (615) 343-7900
Fax: (615) 343-8449
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Curriculum Vitae

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Degrees

• B.S., Carnegie Mellon, 1987
• Ph.D., Indiana University, 1995

Research Area

• Palmeri studies perceptual categorization and related aspects of memory, object recognition, automaticity, and attention. His research utilizes behavioral research, cognitive neuroscience techniques, and computational modeling to investigate the representations and processes that underlie these aspects of human cognition. Current research examines the role of rules and instances in categorization, the development of perceptual expertise, relations between categorization and other kinds of memory, functional brain imaging and neuropsychological studies of perceptual categorization, and the dynamics of categorization decisions. Theoretical work is extending computational models to account for behavior and neural activity associated with categorization, attention, decision-making, and executive control in awake behaving monkeys

Current Positions

• Associate Professor, Department of Psychology
• Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Psychology

Professional Honors

• APA Division of Experimental Psychology New Investigator Award, 1998
• Irving J. Saltzman Award for Outstanding Graduate Achievement, Indiana University, 1996
• J.R. Kantor Fellow Graduate Award, Indiana University, 1995
• Indiana University Cognitive Science Fellowship, 1990
• B.S. with University Honors, Carnegie Mellon University, 1987
• Senior University Scholar, Carnegie Mellon University, 1987
• Wayne Rawley Merit Scholarship (2 years), Carnegie Mellon University, 1985
• Carnegie Institute of Technology College Scholar, Carnegie Mellon University, 1984
• University President's Award for Top 100 Student, Carnegie Mellon University, 1984

Research Associates

• Leanne Boucher (co-advised with Jeffrey Schall)
• Jonathan Folstein (co-advised with Isabel Gauthier)
• Lance Pearson (co-advised with Jeffrey Schall)

Graduate Students

• Michael Mack
• Braden Purcell
• Jennifer Richler (co-advised with Isabel Gauthier)
• Alan Wong (co-advised with Isabel Gauthier)

Representative Publications

• Boucher, L., Palmeri, T.J., Logan, G.D., Schall, J.D. (2007). Inhibitory control in mind and brain: An interactive race model of countermanding saccades. Psychological Review.
• Luhmann, C., Ahn, W.-K., & Palmeri, T.J. (2006). Theory-based categorization under speeded conditions. Memory & Cognition.
• Palmeri, T.J., & Tarr (2006). Object recognition and long-term visual memory for objects. To appear in S. Luck & A. Hollingsworth (Eds.), Visual Memory.
• Kim, C.-Y., Blake, R., & Palmeri, T.J. (2005). Perceptual interaction between real and synesthetic colors. Cortex.
• Palmeri, T.J., & Gauthier, I. (2004). Visual object understanding. Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 5, 291-303.
• Palmeri, T.J., Wong, A.C.-N., & Gauthier, I. (2004). Computational models of the development of perceptual expertise. Trends in Cognitive Science.
• Blake, R.B., Palmeri, T.J., Marois, R., & Kim, C.-Y. (2003). On the perceptual reality of synesthetic color. In L. Robertson & N. Sagiv (Eds.), Attention on Synesthesia: Cognition, Development, and Neurobiology.
• Palmeri, T.J., Blake, R.B., Marois, R., Flanery, M.A., & Whetsell, W.O. (2002). The perceptual reality of synesthetic color. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 99, 4127-4131
• Johansen, M.K., & Palmeri, T.J. (2002). Are there representational shifts during category learning? Cognitive Psychology, 45, 482-553
• Gauthier, I., & Palmeri, T.J. (2002). Visual neurons: Categorization-based selectivity. Current Biology, 12, R282-R284.
• Palmeri, T.J., & Blalock, C. (2000). The role of background knowledge in speeded perceptual categorization. Cognition, 77, B45-B57.
• Palmeri, T.J., & Flanery, M.A. (1999). Learning about categories in the absence of training: Profound amnesia and the relationship between perceptual categorization and recognition memory. Psychological Science, 10, 526-530
• Nosofsky, R.M., & Palmeri, T.J. (1997). An exemplar-based random walk model of speeded classification. Psychological Review, 104, 266-300.
• Palmeri, T.J. (1997). Exemplar similarity and the development of automaticity. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 23, 324-354.
• Palmeri, T.J., & Nosofsky, R.M. (1995). Recognition memory for exceptions to the category rule. Journal of Experiment Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 21, 548-568.
• Nosofsky, R.M., Palmeri, T.J., & McKinley, S.C. (1994). Rule-plus-exception model of classification learning. Psychological Review, 101, 53-79.