Rain G. Bosworth, Ph.D.

Department of Psychology

University of California, San Diego

La Jolla, California 92093-0109

email:  rbosworth@ucsd.edu  

phone:  (822) 822-0541

 

Current Position:

Assistant Project Scientist, III                                                                                          2004-present

    

Education:

Ph.D. in Experimental Psychology                                                                                    1995-2001

University of California, San Diego

B.A. in Psychology                                                                                                          1991-1994

University of California, San Diego

 

Research Awards and Honors:

     R01 Supplemental Research Award, National Eye Institute                                          2004-2008

     Postdoctoral Fellowship, National Eye Institute, PA-99-105                                        2001

     Travel Award, ARVO/National Eye Institute                                                               2000

     Travel Award, Office of the Dean of Social Sciences, UCSD                                       1999, 2000

     NIH Predoctoral Training Award, Institute for Neural Computation                              1999-2000

     NIH/NIDCD Predoctoral Training Award                                                                   1998-1999

     Graduate Fellowship, Fight for Sight Research Division                                                1997-1998

     Graduate Fellowship, Gallaudet University Alumni Association                                     1997-1998

     NRS Predoctoral Training Award, Center for Human Information Processing               1996-1997

     Graduated Cum Laude and with Distinctive Departmental Honors                               1994

     Undergraduate Merit Scholarship, Clair Burgener Foundation                                      1994

     Psi Chi National Honor Society                                                                                   1993-1994

     Provost's Quarterly Honor Roll                                                                                    1992-1994

     Eva Augusta Josephi Undergraduate Merit Scholarship                                                1992-1993

 

Research Experience:

Research Assistantships

     Post-doctoral Fellowship, Retina Foundation of the Southwest                                     2001-2004

     Psychology Undergraduate Honors Program, University of California, San Diego         1993-1994

     Laboratory for Cognitive Neuroscience, Salk Institute for Biological Studies                 1992-1996

     Protein Sequencing Laboratory, University of California, San Diego                             1992-1994

     Temporal Bone Histopathology Laboratory, House Ear Institute, Los Angeles              1992

 

Professional Affiliations:

Member

     Vision Science Society                                                                                                2005-present

     Association for Research in Vision & Ophthalmology                                                   1996-present

Reviewer

     Vision Research                                                                                                         2001-2006

     Trends in Cognitive Sciences                                                                                    2004

     Psychonomic Bulletin                                                                                                1999

Moderator

     Association for Research in Vision & Ophthalmology                                                   2004

Teaching Experience:

Teaching Appointments and Guest Lectures

     Lecturer, Department of Linguistics                                                                              2004

     American Sign Language courses (Dept. of Linguistics)                                                1999-2000

     Completion of two-day workshop for language instructors                                           1999

Teaching Assistantships:

     Voices in Culture (Dept. of Communications)                                                               1997-1998

     Introduction to Cognitive Psychology                                                                           1997

     Introduction to Biopsychology                                                                                     1997

     American Sign Language and its Culture (Dept. of Linguistics)                                      1996-1999

     Psychology of Language                                                                                              1996

     Cognitive Foundations of Psychology                                                                           1996

     Introduction to Statistics                                                                                              1995

     Biological Foundations of Psychology                                                                          1995

     Upward Bound Program                                                                                             1995

Research Supervisory Experience

     Faculty Mentorship Program                                                                                       2006

     Undergraduate honor students’ research projects                                                         2005-2006

     Undergraduate research assistants                                                                               2005-2006

     Fight for Sight Summer Intern                                                                                      2003

 

PUBLICATIONS:

Hoffman, D.R., Garfield, S., Morale, S.E., Bosworth, R.G., Castaneda, Y.S., Wheaton, D.H., Theuer, R.C. & Birch, E.E. (submitted). Cognition of Breast-fed Infants fed DHA-rich Baby Food. Early Human Development.

 

Bosworth, R.G. & Birch, E.E. (in submission). Nasal-temporal asymmetries in motion detection and motion VEP in normal infants and young patients with infantile esotropia.  Investigative Ophthalmology & Vision Science.

 

Bosworth, R.G., Bartlett, M.S., Wright, C.E., & Dobkins, K.R. (in press). Image statistics of American Sign Language: comparison with faces and natural scenes.  Journal of Optical Society of America.

 

Birch, E.E. & Bosworth, R.G. (2005). Visual evoked potentials in infants and children. Chapter in M. J Aminoff (Ed.).  Electrodiagnosis in Clinical Neurology, 5th Edition.  New York: Churchill-Livingstone, pp.439-450.

 

Bosworth, R.G. & Birch, E.E. (2005). Motion detection in normal infants and young patients with infantile esotropia.  Vision Research 45(12).  1557-1567.

 

Birch E.E., Felius J., Stager Sr., D.R., Weakley Jr., D.R. & Bosworth R.G.  (2004). Pre-operative stability of infantile esotropia and post-operative outcome.  American Journal of Ophthalmology, 138, 1003-9.

 

Hoffman, D.R., Theuer, R.C., Castaneda, Y.S., Wheaton, D.H., Bosworth, R.G., O'Connor, A.R., Morale, S.E., Wiedemann, L.E. & Birch, E.E. (2004). Maturation of visual acuity is accelerated in breast-fed term infants fed baby food containing DHA-enriched egg yolk. Journal of Nutrition, 134 (9), 2307-2313.

 

Bosworth, R.G., Wright, C.E., Bartlett, M.S., Corina, D.P. & Dobkins, K.R. (2003). Characterization of the visual properties of signs in ASL. Chapter in A. E. Baker, B. van den Bogaerde & O. Crasborn (Eds.), Cross-Linguistic Perspectives in Sign Language Research.  Hamburg: Signum Press.

 

Bosworth, R.G. & Dobkins, K.R. (2001). Visual field asymmetries for motion processing in deaf and hearing signers. Brain & Cognition, 49(1). 152-169.

 

Bosworth, R.G. & Dobkins, K.R. (2001).  The effects of spatial selective attention on motion processing in deaf and hearing subjects. Brain & Cognition, 49(1).  170-181.

 

Dobkins, K.R. & Bosworth, R.G. (2000). Effects of set-size and spatial selective attention on motion processing. Vision Research, 41. 1501-1517.

 

Bosworth, R.G. & Dobkins, K.R. (1999).  Left hemisphere dominance for motion processing in deaf signers.  Psychological Science, 10(3), 256-262.

 

Abstracts And Conference Presentations:

Bosworth, R.G., Hinga, B., Robbins, S.L. & Dobkins, K.R. (2006). Longitudinal study of chromatic and luminance contrast sensitivity in full-term and pre-term infants from 2 to 7 months of age.  Journal of Vision, 6(6): 287a.

 

Bosworth, R.G., Wang, Y.Z. & Birch, E.E.  (2006). Local and global motion sensitivity in infantile esotropia and normal subjects from 3 months to 5 years of age. Investigative Ophthalmology & Vision Science, 47: E-abstract 3151.

 

Bosworth, R.G. & Birch, E.E. (2004). Nasal-temporal asymmetry in motion detection and motion VEPs in normal infants and patients with infantile esotropia.  Investigative Ophthalmology & Vision Science, 45: E-abstract 3425.

 

Hoffman, D.R., Garfield, S., Morale, S.E., Bosworth, R.G., Castaneda, Y.S., Wheaton, D.K., Theuer, R.C. & Birch, E.E. (2004). Visual and neural development of breast-fed infants receiving docosahexaenoic acid (dha)-enriched baby food: A randomized clinical trial. Investigative Ophthalmology & Vision Science, 45: E-abstract 3510.

 

Bosworth, R.G., Borowy, C., Lapa, M. C., Salomão, S. & Birch, E.E.  (2004). Stereoacuity and amblyopia in children with strabismus and anisometropia.  American Academy of Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus, Washington D.C.

 

Bosworth, R.G. & Birch, E.E. (2003). Binocular function and optotype-grating acuity discrepancies in amblyopic children. Investigative Ophthalmology & Vision Science, 44. E-abstract 3183.

 

Bosworth, R.G. & Birch, E.E.  (2003). Nasal-temporal asymmetries in motion sensitivity and motion VEPs in normal infants and patients with infantile esotropia.  American Academy of Pediatric Ophthalmology & Strabismus, Hawaii.

 

Bosworth, R.G., Fawcett, S.L., & Birch, E.E. (2002). Natural history of monofixation and amblyopia in infantile esotropia during the first 18 months of life.  Investigative Ophthalmology & Vision Science, 43.  E-abstract 4690.

 

Bosworth, R.G. & Dobkins, K.R. (2000). Left hemisphere advantage for motion processing in deaf subjects is not accounted for by attention. Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

 

Rezec, A.A., Bosworth, R.G. & Dobkins, K.R.  (2000). Are visual field asymmetries for motion detection perceptual or attentional?  Cognitive Neuroscience Society, 7th annual conference, San Francisco, California.

 

Bosworth, R.G. & Dobkins, K.R. (2000).  Left hemisphere advantage for motion processing in deaf subjects.   Cognitive Neuroscience Society, 7th annual conference, San Francisco, California.

 

Bosworth, R.G., Wright, C.E.,  Bartlett,  M.S., Corina, D.P. & Dobkins, K.R.  (2000). Characterization of the visual properties of signs in ASL.  Theoretical Issues in Sign Language Research, 7th biannual conference, Amsterdam.

 

Bosworth, R.G. & Dobkins, K.R. (1999).  Effects of spatial pre-cueing on motion detection: A test of time-to-orient, noise reduction and perceptual enhancement.  Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

 

Bosworth, R.G. & Dobkins, K.R. (1998).  Influence of spatial attention on direction-of-motion discrimination in hearing and deaf subjects. Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

 

Invited Lectures:

“Longitudinal study of chromatic and luminance contrast sensitivity in full-term and pre-term infants”  3rd Annual Residents, Fellows and Alumni Meeting, Shiley Eye Center, University of California, San Diego. May, 2006.

 

“Successful Research Collaborations in Academia.”  Second International Deaf Academics and Researchers Conference; Washington D.C. February, 2004

 

“Visual Perception and Attention in Deaf and Hearing Subjects.”  Rochester Institute of Technology; Rochester, NY. April, 2001.

 

“Differences between ASL Signers and English Speakers in Processing of Visual Moving Stimuli: Possible Implications for Brain Laterality of Perception and Language.”  University of New Mexico; Albuquerque, NM.  September, 2000.

 

“Left Hemisphere Dominance for Motion Processing in Deaf and Hearing Signers, but Not Hearing Nonsigners.”  University of Texas; Austin, TX. October, 2000.