Hoover,
Could you please distribute this graduate program announcement to the
CVNet listserv. Thanks.
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The graduate program at Wright State University offers students a
unique opportunity to study basic issues in perception and cognition
while providing them knowledge that makes them more marketable in the
ever-growing industrial/commercial market. Our graduate program in
Human Factors and Industrial/Organizational Psychology welcomes new
applications for Fall 2000.
The graduate program at Wright State University is a unique environment
in which students learn about basic human perceptual/sensory processes
and how to apply that knowledge to practical problems. All Human
Factors students also receive a minor in Industrial/Organizational
Psychology to give them critical background in how organizations operate
and the environment in which human factors solutions are implemented.
The program includes core faculty in many areas of psychology. Current
areas of interest include visual motion perception and smooth pursuit
eye movements, color vision and visual attention, auditory spatial
location and virtual environments, controlling urgency in auditory
displays, divided attention in time-sharing, expertise, cognitive
aging, distributed problem solving, training complex tasks, computer
display design, human-computer interaction, mental workload, visual
control of locomotion, dynamic tactile displays, motor control, and
naturalistic decision making. The graduate program emphasizes basic
experimentation in human perceptual and cognitive abilities, and has a
100% employment record for students completing Masterís or Ph.D. degrees.
We offer excellent facilities including a scleral search coil eye
tracker, several Silicon Graphics workstations, a 10x10 ft. immersive
virtual environment offering 3D projections and spatial audio, a suite
of G3 computers for graduate student use, two newly upgraded computer
labs for teaching Introductory Psychology and graduate student use, as
well as many other pieces of equipment. The close proximity to
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base and our departmentís collaborations with
the base make even more facilities available.
Graduate students generally are funded by scholarships in the form of
teaching or research assistantships. The scholarships fully cover
tuition and provide a stipend over $9600 for the nine-month academic
year (1999-2000). Most students also receive additional separate
summer funding. We expect to have several grant-funded student research
assistantships available for projects in motion perception, color
vision, cognitive aging, multiple-task performance, workplace cognition,
and training astronauts.
For more information about our graduate program and faculty, go to the
Wright State University Psychology web page at: http://www.psych.wright.edu
or email the graduate program director at: dweber@wright.edu
To obtain application forms, contact:
The Graduate Secretary
Department of Psychology
Wright State University
335 Fawcett Hall
Dayton, OH 45435
ph: (937) 775-2391
fax: (937) 775-3347