Graduate Student

Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience

Office: Wilson 427
Phone: 615-322-5584
Fax: 615-343-8449
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Degrees

• BA, Amherst College, Psychology, 2001

Research Area

• visual memory, visual attention

Current Research

• Broadly, my current research interests involve how visual attention and short-term memory facilitate the representation and continuity of visual objects. The topic of my dissertation is focused on investigating whether the same cognitive process is involved in tracking moving objects and recovering tracked objects after they briefly disappear.

Current Courses

• TA, Psych 208: Principles of Experimental Design
• Grader, Psych 209: Quantitative Methods

Professional Societies

• Vision Sciences Society
• Association for Psychological Science

Professional Honors

• 2006, Honorable Mention, National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship Award

Representative Publications

• Publications:
• Ko PC & Seiffert AE. (2009) Updating objects in visual short-term memory is feature-selective. Memory & Cognition, 37(6): 909-923.
• Wilkinson DT, Ko PC, Wiriadjaja A, Kilduff P, McGlinchey R, Milberg WP. (2009) Unilateral damage to the right cerebral hemisphere disrupts the apprehension of whole faces and their component parts. Neuropsychologia, 47(7): 1701-11.
• Wilkinson DT, Ko PC, Milberg WP, & McGlinchey R. (2008) Impaired search for orientation but not color in hemi-spatial neglect. Cortex, 44: 68 – 78.
• Wilkinson DT, Ko PC, McGlinchey R, & Milberg WP. (2005) Improvement of prosopagnosia via sub-sensory galvanic vestibular stimulation. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, 11(6): 925-929.
• Ko PC, Higgins JA, Kilduff PT, Milberg WP, & McGlinchey R. (2005) Evidence for intact selective attention in Alzheimer’s disease patients using a location priming task. Neuropsychology, 19(3): 381-389.
• In preparation:
• Ko PC & Seiffert AE. Shared object representations in attention and visual short-term memory. Submitted to Psychonomic Bulletin & Review.
• Ko PC & Seiffert AE. Colors facilitate object continuity in attentive tracking. Submitted to Visual Cognition.

Miscellaneous

Posters:

Ko PC & Seiffert AE. Updating objects in visual short-term memory. Poster presented at Vision Sciences Society Annual Meeting, Naples FL, 2008.

Ko PC & Seiffert AE. Updating feature information about objects in visual short-term memory. Poster presented at Vision Sciences Society Annual Meeting, Sarasota FL, 2007.

Ko PC & Seiffert AE. Visual memory for colors and shapes of tracked objects. Poster presented at Vision Sciences Society Annual Meeting, Sarasota FL, 2006.

Wilkinson DT, Ko PC, Wiriadjaja A, Kilduff PT, McGlinchey R & Milberg W. Improvement of prosopagnosia following subsensory galvanic vestibular stimulation. Poster presented at The International Neuropsychological Society (INS) Annual Meeting, Boston MA, 2006.