Research Fellow

Office: Wilson 012
Phone: 615-343-7538
Email: 

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Degrees

• B.A. in Psychology, Brandeis University, 1997
• Ph.D. in Experimental Psychology, Dartmouth College, 2002

Current Research

• Modeling the effects of trial history on behavior in the countermanding task.
• Modeling the effects of eye and hand responses in the countermanding task.
• Exploring the relationship between working memory, attention, and eye movements.
• Understanding pupil size dynamics in relation to saccadic initiation and inhibition.

Current Courses

• Spring 2007, PSY 115F, First Year Seminar: General Psychology
• Fall 2007, PSY 209, Quantitative Methods
• Spring 2008, PSY 214, Perception

Professional Honors

• 2005-2008, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, National Eye Institute
• 2002, Recipient of the Dartmouth College Arts and Sciences Graduate Alumni Research Award
• 2001, Recipient of the Marie A. Center Graduate Award for Excellence in Research
• 1999, Awarded First Place at The Dartmouth Graduate Student Poster Conference
• 1996-1997, Undergraduate Research Fellow, Brandeis University
• 1996, Inducted into the Psi Chi National Honor Society

Representative Publications

• Boucher, L., Groh, J.M., & Hughes, H.C. (2001). Afferent delays and the mislocalization of perisaccadic stimuli. Vision Research, 41(20), 2631-2644.
• Kveraga, K.V., Boucher, L., & Hughes, H.C. (2002). Saccades operate in violation of Hick's Law. Experimental Brain Research, 146(3), 307-314.
• Berryhill, M., Kveraga, K., Boucher, L., Hughes, H.C. (2004). Smooth pursuit under stimulus-response uncertainty does not follow Hick's law. Cognitive Brain Research, 19, 100-102.
• Boucher, L., Cohen, Y.E., Lee, A.L., & Hughes, H.C. (2004). Ocular tracking as a measure of auditory motion perception. Journal of Physiology, Paris, 98(1-3), 235-248.
• Emeric, E. E., Brown, J. W., Boucher, L., Carpenter, R.H.S., Hanes, D. P., Harris, R., Logan, G. D., Mashru, R. N., Paré, M., Pouget, P., Stuphorn, V., Taylor, T. L., & Schall, J.D. (2007). Influence of history on countermanding performance in humans and macaque monkeys. Vision Research, 47(1), 35-49.
• Boucher, L., Logan, G.D., Palmeri, T., & Schall, J.D. (2007). Inhibitory control in mind and brain: An interactive race model of countermanding saccades. Psychological Review, 114(2), 376-397.
• Boucher, L., Stuphorn, V., Logan, G.D., Schall, J.D., & Palmeri, T. (2007). Independent stopping of eye and hand movements. Perception and Psychophysics, 69(5), 785–801.
• Schall, J.D. & Boucher, L. (2007). Executive Control of Gaze by the Frontal Lobes. Cognitive Affective and Behavioral Neuroscience, 7(4), 396-412.