Andrew Herbert graduated with a B.Sc. in Biology from McGill University in Montreal, and completed an M.A. and Ph.D. at the University of Western Ontario in Psychology. He is Co-Director of the Multidisciplinary Vision Research Laboratory, Chair of RIT's Psychology Department, and Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology. In the last couple of years, Andy has been doing research on the perception of faces and facial expressions. This includes work with various students on the relative salience of different facial expressions, and stems from work completed by Dr. Paula Beall (now at the University of Denver). Paula completed her Ph.D. with me examining a modified Stroop task to assess the automaticity of facial expression processing.

Reynold Bailey
Reynold Bailey is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science. He received his Masters and Ph.D. from Washington University in St. Louis. His research interests are in the field of computer graphics and include non-photorealistic rendering and applied perception in graphics and visualization. Reynold is currently working on developing novel strategies for subtly directing viewer gaze about a scene. His work has potential applications in computer graphics, data visualization, psychological research, medical image analysis, and training.

Joseph Baschnagel
Dr. Baschnagel's degree is in clinical psychology and his current research focuses on studying attentional and emotional aspects of nicotine addiction. This includes studying the effect of nicotine on attentional and emotional processes in both smokers and non-smokers and assessing cue-reactivity to smoking cues in both general smoking populations and in specific populations where smoking is comorbid with other psychiatric disorders, such as post-traumatic stress disorder. He is currently collaborating with the Multidisciplinary Vision Research Laboratory here at RIT to incorporate mobile eye-tracking into cue-reactivity paradigms. He frequently uses psychophysiological research methods to study attention and emotion processing; measures such as the startle eye-blink reflex, facial emg, heartrate, and skin conductance responses and often conduct non-clinical studies related to attention and emotion using these tools. For more information see his faculty webpage at http://people.rit.edu/jsbgsh/.

Kirsten Condry
Kirsten Condry received her Ph.D. in developmental psychology from the Institute of Child Development, University of Minnesota, in 1999. Following post-doctoral positions at M.I.T. and Harvard, she joined the psychology department at RIT in 2006. Kirsten’s primary research is on basic infant visual perception, including how young infants perceive objects and motion. In the MVRL, Kirsten is studying how 4- to 12-month-old infants understand partly occluded objects, using both eye-tracking and behavioral measures of perception. Other interests include cognitive change in older children and how media (particularly television) influence cognition and development.

Anne Haake
Dr. Haake has an undergraduate degree in B.A. Biology from Colgate University, M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Developmental Biology from the University of South Carolina, and an M.S. in Software Development & Management from RIT. Her research interests are in the areas of Bioinformatics (gene expression analysis; biological databases/user interfaces) and Human Computer Interaction (user-centered design, usability testing, eye tracking).

Lindsay Schenkel
Dr. Schenkel's research interests are in the area of social cognition and psychosocial functioning in children and adults with serious mental illness (particularly, bipolar disorder and psychotic disorders). Currently, she is examining the underlying mechanisms associated with emotion identification impairments in children and adults with bipolar disorder using eye tracking methodology (e.g., using eye-tracking to examine visual scanning for emotional faces and videos), and the extent to which these deficits may be related to impairments in social cognition and psychosocial functioning. For more information see her faculty webpage at http://people.rit.edu/lssgsh/.