Michael L. Mack

Graduate Student

Cognitive and Cognitive Neuroscience

Office: 411 Wilson Hall
Phone: (615) 322-0229
Fax: (615) 343-8449
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Laboratory Website

Curriculum Vitae

Degrees

B.S., Michigan State University, Computer Science, 2003
M.S., Michigan State University, Computer Science, 2005

Research Area

My research is currently focused on the cognitive mechanisms of perceptual categorization and perceptual expertise.

Representative Publications

Richler, J.J., Mack, M.L., Gauthier, I., & Palmeri, T.J. (2009). Holistic processing of faces happens at a glance. Vision Research, in press.
Mack, M.L., Wong, A.C.-N., Gauthier, I., Tanaka, J.W., & Palmeri, T.J. (2009). Time-course of visual object categorization: Fastest does not necessarily mean first. Vision Research, 49, 1961-1968.
Castelhano, M.S., Mack, M.L., & Henderson, J.M. (2009). Viewing task influences eye movements during active scene perception. Journal of Vision, 9(3):6, 1-15.
Mack, M.L.. & Palmeri, T.J. (2009). Recognizing scenes containing consistent or inconsistent objects. In N.A. Taatgen & H. van Rijn (Eds.), Proceedings of the 31th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 2528-2533). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.
Mack, M.L., Sadr, J., Gauthier, I., & Palmeri, T.J. (2008). Object detection and basic-level categorization: Sometimes you know it is there before you know what it is. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 15(1), 28-25.
Mack, M.L., Wong, A.C.-N., Gauthier, I., Tanaka, J., & Palmeri, T.J. (2007). Unraveling the time course of perceptual categorization: Does fastest mean first? In D. S. McNamara & J. G. Trafton (Eds.), Proceedings of the 29th Annual Cognitive Science Society (pp. 1253-1258). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.
Richler, J.J., Mack, M.L., Gauthier, I., & Palmeri, T.J. (2007). Distinguishing between perceptual and decisional sources of holism in face processing. In D. S. McNamara & J. G. Trafton (Eds.), Proceedings of the 29th Annual Cognitive Science Society (pp. 1427-1432). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.
Oliva, A., Mack, M. L., Shrestha, M., & Peeper, A. (2004). Identifying the perceptual dimensions of visual complexity of scenes. In K. Forbus, D. Gentner, & T. Regier (Eds.), Proceedings of the 26th Annual Cognitive Science Society (pp. 1041-1046). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.