lindsay b. lewis

lblewis [at] ucsd.edu
university of california, san diego
department of psychology, 0109
9500 gilman drive
la jolla, ca 92093-0109

 

 

eDUCATION

9.2002 - present

 

 

 

 

1.2007 - present

 

8.2005 - 1.2007

 

 

12.2004

University of California, San Diego                                                     La Jolla, CA

Department of Psychology

Ph.D. in Experimental Psychology, with a specialization in Sensation and Perception, expected 2008

California Institute of Technology                                                       Pasadena, CA
Visiting Graduate Student, under Shinsuke Shimojo, Ph.D.

University of Southern California                                                        Los Angeles, CA
Department of Ophthalmology / Zilkha Neurogenetic Institute

Visiting Graduate Student, under Ione Fine, Ph.D.

University of California, San Diego                                                     La Jolla, CA
M.A. in Experimental Psychology

8.1998 -  12.2001

Washington University in St. Louis                                                     St. Louis, MO

Graduated cum laude with B.A. in Psychology & Philosophy-Neuroscience-Psychology


RESEARCH Experience

5.2006 - present

 

 

 

 

9.2003 - 6.2006 

 

 

10.2002 - 6.2003

Dissertation Research

“Patterns of cross-modal plasticity in the visual cortex of early blind human subjects across a variety of tasks and input modalities”

University of Southern California & California Institute of Technology

Ione Fine, Ph.D. & Melissa Saenz, Ph.D.

"Effects of context on motion processing: the barber-pole illusion in infants"
University of California, San Diego                                            

Karen R. Dobkins, Ph.D. & Ione Fine, Ph.D.

First-Year Project(s)

"Comparing the size of motion-selective area MT+ in deaf and hearing individuals: a mixture model approach"

"The development of depth perception from shading"
University of California, San Diego                                            

Karen R. Dobkins, Ph.D. & Ione Fine, Ph.D.

1.2000 - 12.2001

Honors Research & Independent Study Research

"Object-based coding of saccadic eye movements"

"Antisaccades and the gap effect"
Washington University in St. Louis                                                        

Richard A. Abrams, Ph.D.

8.1999 - 5.2000

Hewlett Program in Mind-Brain Research

"Social contagion of false memory"
Washington University in St. Louis                                                        

Henry L. Roediger III, Ph.D.


TEACHING Experience

1.2006 - 3.2006,

1.2004 - 3.2004,
1.2003 - 3.2003

 

 

3.2005 - 6.2005

 

 

 

 

1.2004

 

 

 

1.2001 - 12.2001

 

 

 

Teaching Assistant
"Sensation and Perception"                                    

University of California, San Diego                                                                      

Department of Psychology

Stuart Anstis, Ph.D.

Teaching Assistant
"Introduction to Physiological Psychology"                                    

University of California, San Diego                                                                      

Department of Psychology

Jim Goodson, Ph.D.

Guest Lecture
"Introduction to Human Development"
University of California, San Diego                                                                      

Human Development Program

Teaching Assistant       
"Health Psychology"                                    

Washington University in St. Louis                                                                

Department of Psychology

Edith Chen, Ph.D.                


clinical Experience

2.2002 - 9.2002

 

 

Cognitive Testing/Patient Operations

Institute for Developmental Behavioral Neurology /                                            Scottsdale, AZ
Arizona Dystonia Institute                       

Drake D. Duane, M.D


HONORS

10.2003 -10.2005

4.2003

3.2004, 3.2003

 


11.2000
-12.2001

 


5.2000
12.2000

 

8.1998 - 5.2000

NSF IGERT Fellowship

NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Honorable Mention

Norman Anderson Travel and Research Funds                                     

University of California, San Diego                                                                      
Department of Psychology

Psi Chi Honor Society                                          

Washington University in St. Louis                                                                  
Department of Psychology

Dean’s List                                                             

Washington University in St. Louis                                                                 

Hewlett Program in Mind-Brain                         

Washington University in St. Louis                                                                  

 


PUBLICATIONS

Lewis, L.B., & Fine, I. (in preparation). Responses to Visual Deprivation after Infancy.  In Adler’s Physiology of the Eye, 11th edition.

Saenz, M., Lewis, L.B., Huth, A.G., Fine, I., & Koch, C. (2008) Visual motion area MT+/V5 responds to auditory motion in human sight-recovery subjects. Journal of Neuroscience, 28(20), 5141-5148.

Dobkins, K.R., Lewis, L.B. & Fine, I. (2006). Integration of one- and two-dimensional motion signals in infants: evidence from the barber-pole illusionVision Research, 46(20), 3360-3372.


PRESENTATIONS

Lewis, L. Saenz, M. & Fine, I. (2007). VSS Abstract. Patterns of cross-modal plasticity in the visual cortex of early blind human subjects across a variety of tasks and input modalities.

Lewis, L. B., Fine, I., & Dobkins, K. R. (2004). VSS Abstract. Effects of context on motion processing: the barber pole illusion in infants [Abstract]. Journal of Vision, 4(8), 34a, http://journalofvision.org/4/8/34/, doi:10.1167/4.8.34.