Postoctoral Fellow

Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience

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Curriculum Vitae

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Degrees

• Ph.D. in psychology, University of California, Santa Barbara (2006)
• M.A. in psychology, University of California, Santa Barbara (2004)
• B.A. in psychology, University of California, Los Angeles (1998)

Research Area

• Navigation, spatial memory, perception and action

Representative Publications

• Kelly, J.W. & McNamara, T.P. (in press). Spatial memory and spatial orientation. In Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence: Spatial Cognition VI. Berlin: Springer.
• Loomis, J.M., Kelly, J.W., Pusch, M., Bailenson, J.N. & Beall, A.C. (in press). Psychophysics of perceiving eye and head direction with peripheral vision: Implications for the dynamics of eye gaze behavior. Perception.
• Avraamides, M.N. & Kelly, J.W. (2008). Multiple systems of spatial memory and action. Cognitive Processing, 9, 93-106.
• Kelly, J.W. & McNamara, T.P. (2008). Response mode differences in perspective taking: Differences in representation or differences in retrieval? Memory & Cognition, 36(4), 863-872.
• Kelly, J.W. & McNamara, T.P. (2008). Spatial memories of virtual environments: How egocentric experience, intrinsic structure, and extrinsic structure interact. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 15(2), 322-327.
• Kelly, J.W., Riecke, B., Loomis, J.M. & Beall, A.C. (2008). Visual control of posture in real and virtual environments. Perception & Psychophysics, 70(1), 158-165.
• Kelly, J.W., Avraamides, M.N. & Loomis, J.M. (2007). Sensorimotor alignment effects in the learning environment and in novel environments. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory & Cognition, 33(6), 1092-1107.
• Macuga, K.L., Beall, A.C., Kelly, J.W., Smith, R., & Loomis, J.M. (2007). Changing lanes: Inertial cues and explicit path information facilitate steering performance when visual feedback is removed. Experimental Brain Research, 178(2), 141-160.
• Zahorik, P. & Kelly, J.W. (2007). Accurate vocal compensation for sound intensity loss with increasing distance in natural environments. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 122(5), EL143-EL150.
• Kelly, J.W., Loomis, J.M., Beall, A.C., Smith, R.S., & Macuga, K.L. (2006). Simultaneous measurement of steering performance and perceived heading on a curving path. ACM Transactions on Applied Perception, 3(2), 83-94.
• Loomis, J.M., Beall, A.C., Macuga, K.L., Kelly, J.W., & Smith, R.S. (2006). Visual control of action without retinal optic flow. Psychological Science, 17(3), 214-221.
• Macuga, K.L., Loomis, J.M., Beall, A.C., & Kelly, J.W. (2006). Perception of heading without optic flow. Perception & Psychophysics, 68(5), 872-878.
• Kelly, J.W., Loomis, J.M., & Beall, A.C. (2005). The importance of perceived relative motion in the control of posture. Experimental Brain Research, 161(3), 285-292.
• Avraamides, M.N. & Kelly, J.W. (2005). Imagined perspective-changing within and across novel environments. In C. Freksa, B. Nebel, M. Knauff, B. Krieg-Brückner (Eds.), Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence: Spatial Cognition IV, Reasoning, Action, Interaction (pp. 245-258). Berlin: Springer.
• Loomis, J.M., Beall, A.C., Kelly, J.W., & Macuga, K.L. (2005). Importance of perceptual representation in the visual control of action. In B.E. Rogowitz, T.N. Pappas, S.J. Daly (Eds.), Human Vision and Electronic Imaging X, Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 5666 (pp. 356-361).
• Kelly, J.W., Loomis, J.M., & Beall, A.C. (2004). Judgments of exocentric direction in large-scale space. Perception 33, 443-454.
• Kelly, J.W., Beall, A.C., & Loomis, J.M. (2004). Perception of shared visual space: Establishing common ground in real and virtual environments. Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments, 13(4), 442-450.