Emma Gregory

4rd Year Graduate Student

Advisors: Michael McCloskey, Barbara Landau

 

Department of Cognitive Science
Johns Hopkins University
3400 North Charles Street
Baltimore MD 21218-2685, USA


Email: gregory@cogsci.jhu.edu
Telephone: 410-516-4945
Fax: 410-516-8020
Office: 243 Krieger Hall


Research Area

Visual Perception, Spatial Representation, Cognitive Neuropsychology

Current Projects

My research addresses how orientation is represented (McCloskey et al., 2006).   To understand the composition of representations of orientation, I am exploring the nature of errors when such a representation breaks down.  I am investigating this question by studying neurological intact children and adults as well as neurologically impaired individuals.

I am also interested in how we represent of action (e.g. grasping).  This study examines how representations of action may differ depending on whether the action is based on present or remembered object information.  Moreover, I am comparing such representations in adults, children and individuals with Williams Syndrome.

Education

B.A. in Cognitive Science (with honors), 2004, Johns Hopkins University

M.A. in Cognitive Science, 2007, Johns Hopkins University

PhD in Cognitive Science, Expected 2010, Johns Hopkins University

Conferences Presentations

Gregory and McCloskey.  Representing the orientation of objects: Evidence from adults’ error patterns.  Poster presented at VSS, May 2007, Sarasota.

Gregory and McCloskey.  Representing the orientation of objects: Evidence from adults’ error patterns.  Poster presented at Psychonomics, November 2007, Long Beach.

Gregory, McCloskey and Landau.   The representation of the orientation of objects in children.  Poster presented at VSS, May 2008, Naples.

Conferences/Workshops Attended

6th Annual Vision Sciences Society  (Sarasota 2006)                                                                                                 

7th Annual Vision Sciences Society (Sarasota 2007)

Functional MRI Workshop, University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, 2007)

48th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomics Society (Long Beach, CA, 2007)

8th Annual Vision Sciences Society (Naples 2008)

Teaching Assistantships

Introduction to Cognitive Neuropsychology (Fall 2005, 2008)

Cognitive Neuropsychology of Visual Perception (Spring 2006, 2007, 2008)

Language and Mind (Fall 2007)

Coursework

Formal Methods in Cognitive Science: Neural Networks, Smolensky

Advanced Statistical Methods, Yantis

Cognitive Development, Landau

Research Seminar: Neuropsychology, McCloskey

Advanced Research Design and Analysis, Shelton

Development of Cognitive Neuroscience, Landau

Intro Programming in Java, Froehlich

Formal Methods in Cognitive Science: Language, Frank

Philosophy of Science, Achinstein

Phonology, Burzio