B.A., University of Toronto, 1968
M.A., University of Wisconsin, 1970
Ph.D., University of Toronto, 1973

Research Summary

My research program has spanned a wide range of topics that pertain to sensory, perceptual, cognitive, and sensory-guided motor processing. More specifically, my research and publications have focused on the tactile psychophysics of texture (real and virtual), haptic and multisensory processing of objects and their properties, haptic space perception, and the sensory-guided control of grasping and manipulation. Most recently I have been investigating haptic face processing. Collectively, my research has employed both behavioural (psychophysical; cognitive; developmental) and neuroscience (e.g., fMRI; behavioural studies with neurologically intact and impaired populations) paradigms. I have also applied the results of my scientific research toward the solution of a variety of real-world problems, such as the design of a raised tactile feature and code that allows blind individuals to denominate Canadian banknotes by hand, and the design of haptic and multisensory interfaces for virtual environments and teleoperation.

Publications

Books & Edited Volumes

Wolfe, J., Levi, D., Kluender, K., Bartoshuk, L., Herz, R., Klatzky, R., Lederman, S.J. & Merfeld, D. (2015). Sensation and perception (4th edition).  Sunderland, MA: Sinauer Associates, Inc.

Wolfe, J., Levi, D., Kluender, K., Bartoshuk, L., Herz, R., Klatzky, R., Lederman, S.J. & Merfeld, D.  (2012). Sensation and perception (3rd edition).  Sunderland, MA: Sinauer Associates, Inc.

Wolfe, J., Levi, D., Kluender, K., Bartoshuk, L., Herz, R., Klatzky, R., Lederman, S.J. & Merfeld D. (Oct, 2009). Sensation and perception (2nd edition).  Sunderland, MA: Sinauer Associates, Inc.

Lederman, S.J. & Klatzky, R.L. (2007). New directions in touch (Special Issue; Guest Eds. Lederman, S.J. & Klatzky, R.L.). Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology, 61(3).

Jones, L.A. & Lederman, S.J. ( 2006). Human hand function. New York: Oxford University Press.

Wolfe, J., Levi, D., Kluender, K., Bartoshuk, L., Herz, R., Klatzky, R. & Lederman, S.J. (2006). Sensation and perception (First edition). Sunderland, MA: Sinauer Associates, Inc.

Journal articles, Chapters, Conference proceedings, etc.

Kitada, R., Okamoto Y, Sasaki AT, Kochiyama T, Miyahara, M, Lederman, SJ, and Sadato, N. (2013). Early visual experience and the recognition of basic facial expressions: Involvement of the middle temporal and inferior frontal gyri during haptic identification by the early blind. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 28 January 2013 Vol 7, Article 7, 1-15. (| doi:10.3389/fnhum.2013.00007) (PDF, 1.58 MB)

Kitada R, Sadato N, Lederman S. J. (2012) Tactile perception of nonpainful unpleasantness in relation to perceived roughness: Effects of inter-element spacing and speed of relative motion of rigid 2-D raised-dot patterns at two body loci. Perception, 41(2), 204 – 220 (PDF, 450 KB)

Klatzky, R.L., Abramowicz, A., Hamilton, C. & Lederman, SJ. (2011). Irrelevant visual faces influence haptic identification of facial expressions of emotion. Attention, Perception & Performance, 73 (2), 521-530. (PDF, 220 KB)

Klatzky, RL and Lederman, SJ (2011). Haptic object perception: Spatial dimensionality and relation to vision. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London B, 366, 3097-3105. (PDF, 310 KB)

Lederman, SJ. & Jones, L.A. (2011) Tactile and haptic illusions. IEEE: Transactions on Haptics, 4(4), 273-294. (PDF, 677 KB)

Pawluk, D., Kitada, R., Abramowicz, A., Hamilton, C. & Lederman, S.J. (2011). Haptic perceptual organization: Attributing initial discrete finger contacts to objects or their supporting surfaces via a haptic glance. IEEE: Transactions on Haptics, 1, 2-13. (PDF, 484 KB)

Abramowicz A, Klatzky, RL & Lederman, SJ. (2010).   The effect of training on the haptic classification of 2D raised-line drawings of FEEs by sighted and blind observers. Perception, 39, 1261-1275. (PDF, 801 KB)

Colgate, E. (and Lederman, SJ) (2010). An interview with Susan Lederman, IEEE: Transactions on Haptics, 3(4), 131-133. (PDF, 67 KB)

Kitada, R., Dijkerman, H. C., Soo, G. & Lederman, S.J. (2010). Representing human hands haptically or visually from first-person versus third-person perspectives. Perception, 39, 236-254. (PDF, 990 KB)

Kitada, R., Johnsrude, I., Kochiyama, T. & Lederman, S.J (2010). Brain networks involved in haptic and visual identification of facial expressions of emotion: An fMRI study. Neuroimage, 49(2), 1677-1689. (PDF, 606 KB)

Klatzky, R.L. & Lederman, S.J. (2010), Multisensory texture perception. (Ch. 12: pp. 211-230). In M.J. Naumer & J. Kaiser (eds.). Multisensory object perception in the primate brain. Springer Verlag. (PDF, 403 KB)

Lederman, SJ, Kitada, R., & Pawluk, D. (2010) Haptic perception. In The Corsini Encyclopedia of Psychology (4th edition), Vol2 (D-L). Weiner, IB and Craighead, WD  (Eds).  John Wiley, pp 750-752. (PDF, 1.28 MB)

Lederman, S.J., Klatzky, R.L. & Kitada, R.(2010). Haptic face processing and its relation to vision. (Chapter 15: pp  273-300). In M.J. Naumer & J. Kaiser (eds.), Multisensory object perception in the primate brain. Springer Verlag. (PDF, 749 KB)

McGregor, T.A., Klatzky, R.L., Hamilton, C. & Lederman, SJ. (2010). Haptic classification of facial identity in 2-D Displays: learning and inversion effects. IEEE: Transactions on Haptics, 1(2), 48- 55. (PDF, 547 KB)

Pawluk D., Kitada, R., Abramowicz A., Hamilton C., & Lederman SJ. (2010). Haptic figure-ground differentiation via a haptic glance. Proceedings of the Annual Haptics Symposium on Teleoperator and Virtual-Environment Systems, IEEE Haptics Symposium, 25-26 March, Waltham Massachusetts, USA, 63-66. (PDF, 710 KB)

Kitada, R., Johnsrude, I., Kochiyama, T. & Lederman, S.J. (2009). Functional specialization and convergence in the occipitotemporal cortex supporting haptic and visual identification of human faces and body parts: An fMRI study. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 21(10) , 2027-2045. (PDF, 479 KB)

Klatzky, R. L., & Lederman, S. J.  (2009) Haptics. In Goldstein, B. (Ed.). Encyclopedia of Perception. Thousand Oaks, CA:  Sage. (PDF, 87 KB)

Lederman, S.J. & Klatzky, R.L. (2009). Haptic perception: A tutorial. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics. 71 (7) , 1439-1459. (PDF, 2.17 MB)

Lederman, S.J. & Klatzky, R.L. (2009). Human Haptics. In L.R. Squire (Ed). New Encyclopedia of Neuroscience., vol 5, 11-18. UK: Elsevier. (PDF, 1.51 MB)

Wing, A.M. & Lederman, S.J. (2009). Points for precision grip (Ch 14: pgs 193-203). In  D.A. Nowak and J. Hermsdoerfer  (Eds.). Sensorimotor control of grasping: physiology and pathophysiology. Cambridge University Press.   (PDF, 666 KB)

Lederman, S.J., Klatzky, R.L., Rennert-May, E., Lee, J.H., Ng, K., & Hamilton, C. (2008). Haptic processing of facial expressions of emotion in 2D raised-line drawings. IEEE Transactions on Haptics, 1(1), 27-38. (PDF, 1.06 MB)

Klatzky, R.L. & Lederman, S.J. (2008). Object recognition by touch. In J. Rieser, D. Ashmead, F. Ebner, & A. Corn (eds). Blindness and Brain Plasticity in Navigation and Object Perception. New York: Erlbaum. (PDF, 1.78 MB)

Lederman, S.J. & Klatzky, R.L. (2007). New directions in touch (preface). Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology, 61(3), 169-170. (Special Issue on New Directions in Touch; Guest Eds. Lederman, S.J. & Klatzky, R.L.). (PDF, 108 KB)

Lederman, S.J., Kilgour, A., Kitada, R., Klatzky, R.L. & Hamilton, C. (2007). Haptic face processing. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology, 61(3), 230-241. (PDF, 1.24 MB)

Travieso, D. & Lederman, S.J. (2007). Assessing subclinical tactual deficits in the hand function of diabetic blind persons at risk for peripheral neuropathy. Archives of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, 88, 1662-1672. (PDF, 280 KB)

Klatzky, R.L. & Lederman, S.J. (2007). Do intention and exploration modulate the pathways to haptic object identification? Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 30, 213-214. (PDF, 356 KB)

Lawrence, M.A., Kitada, R., Klatzky, R.L. & Lederman, S.J. (2007). Haptic roughness perception of linear gratings via bare finger or rigid probe. Perception, 36, 547-557. (PDF, 216 KB)

Lederman, S.J., Klatzky, R.L., Abramowicz, A., Salsman, K., Kitada, R., & Hamilton, C. (2007). Haptic recognition of static and dynamic expressions of emotion in the live face. Psychological Science, 18(2), 158-164. (PDF, 502 KB)

Kitada, R., Kito, T., Saito, D.N., Kochiyama, T., Matsumura, M., Sadato, N., & Lederman, S.J. (2006). Multisensory activation of the intraparietal area when classifying grating orientation: A functional magnetic resonance imaging study. Journal of Neuroscience, 26 , 7491-7501. (PDF, 203 KB)

Kilgour, A. & Lederman, S.J. (2006). A haptic face-inversion effect. Perception, 35 , 921-931. (PDF, 185 KB)

James, T.W., Servos, P., Kilgour, A.R., Huh, E. & Lederman, S.J. (2006). The influence of familiarity on brain activation during haptic exploration of 3-D facemasks. Neuroscience Letters, 397, 269-273.

Lederman, S.J., Klatzky, R.L., Tong, C. & Hamilton, C. (2006). The perceived roughness of resistive virtual textures: Effects of varying viscosity with a force-feedback device. ACM: Transactions of Applied Perception, 3 (1), 15-30. (PDF, 367 KB)

Klatzky, R.L. & Lederman, S.J. (2006). The perceived roughness of resistive virtual textures: I. Rendering by a force-feedback mouse. ACM: Transactions of Applied Perception, 3 (1), 1-14. (PDF, 330 KB)

Kilgour, A., Kitada, R., Servos, P., James, T. & Lederman, S.J. (2005). Haptic face identification activates ventral occipital and temporal areas: An fMRI study. Brain & Cognition, 59, 246-257. (PDF, 406 KB)

Klatzky, R.L., Lederman, S.J. & Mankinen, J.M. (2005). Visual and haptic exploratory procedures in children's judgments about tool function. Infant Behavior & Development, 28 , 240-249. (PDF, 92 KB)

Kitada, R., Hashimoto, T., Kochiyama, T, Kito, T, Okada, T., Matsumura, M., Lederman, S.J., & Sadato, N. (2005). Tactile estimation of the roughness of gratings yields a graded response in the human brain: An fMRI study. NeuroImage, 25 , 90-100. ) (PDF, 564 KB)

Newman, S.D., Klatzky, R.L., Lederman, S.J. & Just, M.A. (2005). Imagining material versus geometric properties of objects: an fMRI study. Cognitive Brain Research, 23(2-3), 235-246. (PDF, 1.37 MB)

Drewing, K., Ernst, M.O., Lederman, S.J., & Klatzky, R. (2004). Roughness and spatial density judgments on visual and haptic textures using virtual reality. In M. Buss & M. Fritschi (Eds.), Proceedings of the 4th International Conference EuroHaptics 2004 (pp. 203-206). Munich: Herbert Hieronymus. (PDF, 347 KB)

Wagner, C.R.,Lederman, S.J. & Howe, R.D. (2004). Design and performance of a tactile shape display using RC servomotors. Haptics-e (The Electronic Journal of Haptic Research), 3 (No. 4). Available at: http://www.haptics-e.org. (PDF, 1.76 MB)

Lederman, S.J. & Klatzky, R.L. (2004). Multisensory Texture Perception. In G. Calvert, C. Spence, and B. Stein (eds). Handbook of Multisensory Processes. Cambridge: MIT Press. (Chapter 7, pgs 107-122). (PDF, 323 KB)

Lederman, S.J. & Klatzky, R.L. (2004). Haptic identification of common objects: effects of constraining the manual exploration process. Perception & Psychophysics, 66(4), 618-628. (PDF, 228 KB)

Lederman, S.J., Howe, R.D., Klatzky, R.L., & Hamilton, C. (2004). Force variability during surface contact with bare finger or rigid probe. 12th International Symposium on Haptic Interfaces for Virtual Environment and Teleoperator Systems,154-160. (PDF, 246 KB)

Kilgour, A., Servos, P., James, T. & Lederman, S.J. (2004). Haptic face recognition: an fMRI study. Brain and Cognition, 54(2), 159-161. (PDF, 61 KB)

Purdy, K.A., Lederman, S.J., & Klatzky, R.L. (2004). Haptic processing of the location of a known property: Does knowing what you've touched tell you where it is? Canadian Journal of Psychology, 58, 32-45. (PDF, 477 KB)

Kilgour, A.K., de Gelder, B., & Lederman, S.J. (2004). Haptic face recognition and prosopagnosia. Neuropsychologia, 42, 707-712. (PDF, 139 KB)

Klatzky, R.L. & Lederman, S.J. (2003). The haptic identification of everyday life objects. In Hatwell, Y. & Gentaz, E. (Eds). Touching and knowing (pp.123-159). Amsterdam:John Benjamins Publisher. (PDF, 7.65 MB)

Klatzky, R.L., Lederman, S.J., & Langseth, S. (2003). Watching a cursor distorts haptically guided reproduction of mouse movement. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied. 9(4), 228-235. (PDF, 92 KB)

Lederman, S.J. & Wing, A.M. (2003). Perceptual judgement, grasp point selection and object symmetry. Experimental Brain Research, 152, 156-165. (PDF, 402 KB)

Klatzky, R.L., Lederman, S.J., Hamilton, C., Grindley, M. & Swendsen, R.H. (2003). Feeling textures through a probe: Effects of probe and surface geometry and exploratory factors. Perception & Psychophysics, 65(4), 613-631. (PDF, 424 KB)

Klatzky, R.L. & Lederman, S.J. (2003) Representing spatial location and layout from sparse kinesthetic contacts. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception & Performance, 29(2), 310-325. (PDF, 256 KB)

Klatzky, R.L. & Lederman, S.J. (2003). How well can we encode spatial layout from sparse kinesthetic contacts? IEEE VR'03, 11th International Symposium on Haptic Interfaces for Virtual Environment and Teleoperator Systems,179-186. (PDF, 100 KB)

Lederman, S.J., Klatzky, R.L., Martin, A. & Tong, C. (2003). Relative performance using haptic and/or touch-produced auditory cues in a remote absolute texture identification task. IEEE VR'03, 11th International Symposium on Haptic Interfaces for Virtual Environment and Teleoperator Systems, 151-158. (PDF, 340 KB)

Lee, J., Wagner, C., Lederman, S.J. & Howe, R.D. (2003). Spatial low pass filter choice for pin actuated tactile displays. IEEE VR'03, 11th International Symposium on Haptic Interfaces for Virtual Environment and Teleoperator systems, 57-62. (PDF, 288 KB)

Klatzky, R.L. & Lederman, S.J. (2003). Haptic Perception. In Encylopedia of Cognitive Science, (pp. 508 - 512). MacMillan Press. (PDF, 103 KB)

Klatzky, R.L. & Lederman, S.J. (2003). Touch. In A.F. Healy & R. W. Proctor (Eds.), Experimental Psychology (pp. 147-176). Volume 4 in I.B. Weiner (Editor-in-Chief). Handbook of Psychology, New York: John Wiley & Sons. (PDF, 5.54 MB)  

Lederman, S.J. & Hamilton, C. (2002). Using tactile features to help functionally blind individuals denominate banknotes. Human Factors, 44(3) , 413-428. (PDF, 5.64 MB)

Klatzky, R.L. & Lederman, S.J. (2002). Tactile object perception and the perceptual stream. In L. Albertazzi (Ed.) Consciousness and perceptual continua. In series on Advances in consciousness research. (pp 147-162). Amsterdam:John Benjamin Publishing Company. (PDF, 4.66 MB)

Kilgour, A. & Lederman, S. (2002). Face recognition by hand. Perception & Psychophysics, 64(3), 339-352. (PDF, 333 KB)

Klatzky, R.L. & Lederman, S.J. (2002). Perceiving texture through a probe (chapter 10). In M.L. McLaughlin, J. Hespanha, & G. Sukhatme (Eds.), Touch in virtual environments (pp. 180-193) Upper Saddle River, NY: Prentice Hall PTR. (PDF, 713 KB)

Lederman, S.J., Klatzky, R.L. Hamilton, C. & Morgan, T. (2002). Integrating multimodal information about surface texture via a probe: Relative contributions of haptic and touch produced sound sources. 10th Annual meeting of Haptic Interfaces for Teleoperator and Virtual Environment Systems. Satellite meeting of the Annual IEEE VR '02 meeting. pp 97-104. (PDF, 3.15 MB)

Unger, B.J., Nicolaidis, A., Berkelman, P.J., Thompson, A., Lederman, S., Klatzky, R.L. & Hollis, R.L. (2002). Virtual peg-in-hole performance using a 6-dof magnetic levitation haptic device: comparison with real forces and with visual guidance alone. 10th Annual meeting of Haptic Interfaces for Teleoperator and Virtual Environment Systems. Satellite meeting of the Annual IEEE VR'02 meeting, 2002. pp. 263-270. (PDF, 3.89 MB)

Wagner, C.R., Lederman, S.J., & Howe, R.D. (2002). A tactile shape display using RC servomotors. 10th Annual meeting of Haptic Interfaces for Teleoperator and Virtual Environment Systems. Satellite meeting of the Annual IEEE VR'02 meeting, 2002.pp. 354-356. (PDF, 1.13 MB)

Lederman, S.J. & Klatzky, R.L. (2001). Feeling surfaces and objects remotely. In S.A. Simon & M.A.L. Nicolelis (Series Ed.) & R. Nelson (Volume Ed.). Methods & New Frontiers in Neuroscience. The Somatosensory System: Deciphering the Brain's Own Body Image, (pp. 103-120). Florida: CRC Press LLC. (PDF, 4.91 MB)

Servos, P, Lederman, S.J., Wilson, D & Gati, J. (2001). fMRI-derived cortical maps for haptic shape, roughness and hardness. Brain Research: Cognitive Brain Research. pp. 307-313. (PDF, 1 MB)  

Flanagan, J.R. & Lederman, S.J. (2001). Neurobiology: Feeling bumps and holes. Nature, 412 , 389-391. (PDF, 408 KB)

Lederman, S.J., & Klatzky, R.L. (2001). Designing haptic and multimodal interfaces: A cognitive scientist's perspective. In G. Farber & J. Hoogen (Eds.). Proceedings of Collaborative Research Centre 453, Technical University of Munich, pgs 71-80. (PDF, 4.23 MB)

Lederman, S.J., Klatzky, R.L., Hamilton, C. & Grindley, M. (2000). Perceiving surface roughness through a probe: effects of applied force and probe diameter. Proceedings of the American Society for Mechanical Engineers, Dynamic Systems and Control Division, 69-2, 1065-1071. (PDF, 3.34 MB)

Klatzky, R.L. & Lederman, S.J. (2000). Modality specificity in cognition: The case of touch. In H.L. Roediger, J.S. Nairne, I. Neath, and A.M. Suprenant (Eds.). The Nature of Remembering: Essays in Honor of Robert G. Crowder. Washington, D.C.: American Psychological Association Press. (PDF, 3.49 MB)

Klatzky, R.L. & Lederman, S.J. (2000). L'identification haptique des objets significats. In Y. Hatwell and E. Gentaz (Eds.) Touching and knowing (Toucher pour connaitre). Presses Universitaires de France., Pgs. 109-128. (PDF, 5.52 MB)

Ellis, R.R. & Lederman,S.J. (2000). Anticipatory effects underlie the golf-ball illusion. Golf Research News, World Scientific Congress of Golf Trust, 1(3), 18-23. (PDF, 1.34 MB)

Lederman, S.J. (1999). The Sense of Touch in Humans: Implications for designing haptic interfaces for teleoperation and virtual environments . 9th International Conference on Artificial Reality and Telexistence. Tokyo, Japan, pp. 3-5. (PDF, 172 KB)

Ellis, R.R. & Lederman, S.J. (1999). The material-weight illusion revisited. Perception & Psychophysics, 61(8), 1564-1576. (PDF, 7.77 MB)

Klatzky, R.L., Lederman, S.J., Hamilton, C.L., & Ramsay, G.I. (1999). Perceiving roughness via a rigid probe: Effects of exploration speed. Proceedings of the International Mechanical Engineering Congress: Dynamic Systems and Control Division (Haptic Interfaces for Virtual Environments and Teleoperator Systems), DSC-Vol 67, 27-33. (For comprehensive version, see Lederman et al., 1999, Haptics-e ). (PDF, 265 KB)  

Lederman, S.J., Klatzky, R.L., Hamilton, C.L., & Ramsay, G.I. (1999). Perceiving roughness via a rigid probe: Psychophysical effects of exploration speed and mode of touch. Haptics-e The Electronic Journal of Haptic Research, 1(1) . Available at: http://www.haptics-e.org. (PDF, 265 KB)

Klatzky, R.L. & Lederman, S.J. (1999). Tactile roughness perception with a rigid link interposed between skin and surface. Perception & Psychophysics, 61(4), 591-607. (PDF, 7.67 MB)

Purdy, K.A., Lederman, S.J. & Klatzky, R.L. (1999). Manipulation with partial or no vision. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception & Performance, 25(3), 755-774. (PDF, 4.33 MB)

Klatzky, R.L. & Lederman, S.J. (1999). The haptic glance: A route to rapid object identification and manipulation. In D. Gopher & A. Koriats (Eds.) Attention and Performance XVII. Cognitive regulations of performance: Interaction of theory and application. (pp. 165-196). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum. (PDF, 3.27 MB)

Lederman, S.J. & Klatzky, R.L. (1999). Sensing and displaying spatially distributed fingertip forces in haptic interfaces for teleoperator and virtual environment systems. Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments, 8(1), 86-103. (PDF, 210 KB)

Ellis, R.R., Flanagan, R. & Lederman, S.J. (1999). The influence of visual illusions on grasp position. Experimental Brain Research, 125, 109-114. (PDF, 3.73 MB)

Lederman, S.J. & Klatzky, R.L. (1998). Feeling through a probe. Proceedings of the ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress: Dynamic Systems and Control Division (Haptic Interfaces for Virtual Environments and Teleoperator Systems), DSC-Vol. 64, 127-131. (For comprehensive version, see #118) (PDF, 1.95 MB)  

Wing, A.M. & Lederman, S.J. (1998). Anticipating load torques produced by voluntary movements. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception & Performance, 24 (6), 1571-1581. (PDF, 1.33 MB)

Lederman, S.J. & Klatzky, R.L. (1998). The hand as a perceptual system. In K. Connolly (ed.) The psychobiology of the hand. (Chapter 2, pp. 16-35). London: MacKeith Press. (PDF, 5.78 MB)

Ellis, R.R. & Lederman, S.J. (1998). The "golf-ball" illusion: Evidence for top-down processing in weight perception. Perception, 27(2), 193-202. (PDF, 2.54 MB)

Lederman, S.J. & Verry, R. (1998). Don't take touch for granted: A conversation with Susan Lederman. Teaching of Psychology, 25(1), 64-67. (PDF, 2.02 MB)

Lederman, S.J. & Klatzky, R.L. (1997). Designing haptic interfaces for teleoperational and virtual environments: Should spatially distributed forces be displayed to the fingertip? Proceedings of the ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress: Dynamic Systems and Control Division (Haptic Interfaces for Virtual Environments and Teleoperator Systems), DSC-Vol. 61, 11-15. (For comprehensive version, see Lederman & Klatzky, 1999, Presence, 8(1), 86-103) (PDF, 2.43 MB)  

Lederman, S.J., Klatzky, R.L. (1997). Relative availability of surface and object properties during early haptic processing. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 23(6), 1-28. (PDF, 3.93 MB)

Lederman, S.J. (1997). Skin and Touch. Encyclopedia of human biology, Volume 8. (2nd edition, pp. 49-61). San Diego: Academic Press. (PDF, 4.50 MB)

Lederman, S.J. & Klatzky, R.L. (1997). Haptic aspects of motor control. In F. Boller & J. Grafman (Eds.) & M. Jeannerod (Section Ed.) Handbook of Neuropsychology: Volume 11. (Chapter 7, pp 131-148). Amsterdam: Elsevier Science. (PDF, 5.91 MB)

Lederman, S.J. & Howe, R. (1996). Haptic interfaces for virtual environment and teleoperator systems. Introduction to the Proceedings of the Symposium on Proceedings of the ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress: Dynamic Systems and Control Division, DSC-Vol. 58. (PDF, 392 KB)

Lederman, S.J. (1996). An Introduction to Human Psychophysics. Invited contribution to Haptics Community Web Page site, an international online resource for researchers in the haptic display community officially prepared by Northwestern University, as requested by 1996 IMECE Haptics Symposium (2 pages).

Minsky, M. & Lederman, S.J. (1996). Simulated haptic textures: Roughness. In Proceedings of the ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress: Dynamic Systems and Control Division, Vol. 2 (Haptic Interfaces for Virtual Environments and Teleoperator Systems), DSC-Vol. 58, 421-426. (PDF, 2.56 MB)

Klatzky, R.L., Purdy, K.A., & Lederman, S.J. (1996). When is vision useful during a familiar manipulatory task? In Proceedings of the ASME Internation Mechanical Engineering Congress: Dynamic Systems and Control Division, Vol. 2 (Haptic Interfaces for Virtual Environments and Teleoperator Systems), DSC-Vol. 58, 561-566. (For comprehensive version, see #117) (PDF, 2.81 MB)

Lederman, S.J., & Klatzky, R.L. (1996). Haptic object identification II. Purposive exploration. In O. Franzen (ed.) Somesthesis and the neurobiology of the somatosensory cortex. Basel, Switzerland: Birkhauser Verlag AB, 153-161. (PDF, 1.72 MB)

Klatzky, R.L., Lederman, S.J., & O'Neill, C. (1996). Haptic object processing I: Early perceptual features. In O. Franzen (ed.), Somesthesis and the neurobiology of the somatosensory cortex. Basel, Switzerland: Birkhauser Verlag AB, 147-152. (PDF, 1.18 MB)  

Lederman, S., Summers, C., & Klatzky, R. (1996). Cognitive salience of haptic object properties: Role of modality-encoding bias. Perception, 25(8), 983-998. (PDF, 5.97 MB)

Lederman, S.J., & Klatzky, R.L. (1996). Action for perception: Manual exploratory movements for haptically processing objects and their features. In Wing, A., Haggard, P., & Flanagan, R. (Eds.), Hand and Brain: Neurophysiology and Psychology of Hand. (pp. 431-446). San Diego: Academic. (PDF, 3.61 MB)

Lederman, S.J., Ganeshan, S.R., & Ellis, R.E. (1996). "Effortful touch with minimum movement" revisited. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception & Performance, 22(4), 851-868. (PDF, 2.25 MB)

Lederman, S.J. & Klatzky,R.L. (1995). Processing haptic features from an initial brief contact. Proceedings of the ASME Dynamic Systems and Control Division, Vol. 2 (Haptic Interfaces for Virtual Environments and Teleoperator Systems), DSC-57-2, 675-680. (PDF, 2.14 MB)

Klatzky, R.L., & Lederman, S.J. (1995). Identifying objects from a haptic glance. Perception and Psychophysics, 57(8), 1111-1123. (PDF, 6.52 MB)

Lederman, S.J., & Klatzky, R.L. (1994). The intelligent hand: An experimental approach to human object recognition and implications for robotics and AI. AI Magazine, 15(1), 26-38. (PDF, 5.71 MB)

Lederman, S.J. (1994). The adaptive control of prehension. Canadian Journal of Physiology and Pharmacology, 72(5), 506-510. (PDF, 3.38 MB)

Ganeshan, S., Ellis, R.E., & Lederman, S.J. (1994). Teleoperated sensing by grasping: Robot sensors and human psychophysics. Proceedings of the Third International Symposium on Experimental Robotics. (PDF, 3.83 MB)

Fikes, T.G., Klatzky, R.L., & Lederman, S.J. (1994). Effects of object texture of precontact movement time in human prehension. Journal of Motor Behavior, 26(4), 325-332. (PDF, 3.75 MB)

Ellis, R.E., Ganeshan, S.R., & Lederman, S.J. (1994). A tactile sensor based on thin-plate deformation. Robotica, 12, 343-351. (PDF, 4.58 MB)

Lederman, S.J., Klatzky, R.L., & Reed, C. (1993). Constraints on haptic integration of spatially shared object dimensions. Perception, 22, 723-743. (PDF, 8.37 MB)

Lederman, S.J., & Klatzky, R.L. (1993). Extracting object properties by haptic exploration. Acta Psychologica, 84, 29-40. (PDF, 2.71 MB)

Lederman, S.J., & Klatzky, R.L. (1993). An introduction to human haptic exploration and recognition of objects for neuroscience and AI. In P. Rudomin, M. Arbib, R. Cervantes-Perez (Eds.), Neuroscience: From neural networks to artificial intelligence (Research notes in neural computing, Vol. 4), (pp.171-188). Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag. (PDF, 6.17MB)

Lederman, S.J. (1993). The intelligent hand: An experimental approach to human object recognition and implications for robotic design. 13th Annual Proceedings of the IJCAI(International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence), 1, (pp.774-785). Chambery, France (PDF, 6.17 MB)

Klatzky, R.L., Pellegrino, J., McCloskey, B.P., & Lederman, S.J. (1993). Cognitive representations of functional interactions with objects. Memory & Cognition, 21(3), 294-303. (PDF, 4.66 MB)

Klatzky, R.L., Loomis, J.M., Lederman, S.J., Wake, H., & Fujita, N. (1993). Haptic identification of objects and their depictions. Perception & Psychophysics, 54(2), 170-178. (PDF, 4.43 MB)

Klatzky, R.L., Lederman, S.J., & Matula, D. (1993). Haptic exploration in the presence of vision. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception & Performance, 19(4), 726-743. (PDF, 5.53 MB)

Klatzky, R.L., & Lederman, S.J. (1993). Toward a computational model of constraint-driven exploration and haptic object identification. Perception, 22, 597-621. (PDF, 8.66 MB)

Klatzky, R.L., & Lederman, S.J. (1993). Spatial and non spatial avenues to object recognition by the human haptic system. In N. Eilan, R. McCarthy, & B. Brewer (Eds.), Spatial representation: Problems in philosophy and psychology (pp. 191-205). Basil Blackwell: Cambridge, England. (PDF, 4.34 MB)

Ellis, R.R., & Lederman, S.J. (1993). The role of haptic vs. visual volume cues in the size-weight illusion. Perception & Psychophysics, 53(3), 315-324. (PDF, 4.49 MB)

Lederman, S.J., Klatzky, R.L., & Pawluk, D. (1992). Lessons from the study of biological touch for robotic haptic sensing. In H. R. Nicholls (Ed.), Advanced tactile sensing for robots. (World Scientific Series in Robotics and Automated Systems, Vol. 5). Chapter 9, pp. 193-219. Singapore: World Scientific Publishing. (PDF, 6.67 MB)

Lederman, S.J., & Pawluk, D. (1992). Lessons from the study of biological touch for robotic tactile sensing. In H. R. Nicholls (Ed.), Advanced tactile sensing for robots. (World Scientific Series in Robotics and Automated Systems, Vol. 5). Chapter 8, pp. 151-192. Singapore: World Scientific Publishing. (PDF, 4.30 MB)

Klatzky, R.L., & Lederman, S.J. (1992). Stages of manual exploration in haptic object identification. Perception & Psychophysics, 52(6), 661-670. (PDF, 4.38 MB)

Moore, T., Broekhoven, M., Lederman, S., & Ulug, S. (1991). Q'HAND: A fully automated apparatus for studying haptic processing of spatially distributed inputs. Behavior Research Methods, Instruments and Computers, 23(1), 27-35. (PDF, 4.86 MB)

Loomis, J.M., Klatzky, R.L., & Lederman, S.J. (1991). Similarity of tactual and visual picture recognition with limited field of view. Perception, 20, 167-177. (PDF, 4.82 MB)  

Lederman, S.J., Klatzky, R.L., & Balakrishnan, J. (1991). Task-driven extraction of object contour by human haptics: Part 2. Robotica, 9, 179-188. (PDF, 5.65 MB)  

Lederman, S.J. (1991). Skin and touch. Encyclopedia of human biology, Academic Press, Vol. 7, 51-63. (PDF, 5.35 MB)

Klatzky, R.L., Lederman, S.J., & Matula, D. (1991). Imagined haptic exploration in judgments of object properties. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition, 17(2), 314-322. (PDF, 4.63 MB)

Klatzky, R.L., Lederman, S.J., & Balakrishnan, J. (1991). Task-driven extraction of object contour by human haptics: Part I. Robotica, 9, 43-51. (PDF, 5.13 MB)

Klatzky, R.L., & Lederman, S.J. (1991). Toward a computational model of constraint-driven exploration and haptic object identification (Tech. Rep. RPL-TR-9104). Kingston, Ontario, Canada: Queen's University. (PDF, 8.65 MB)

Summers, C., & Lederman, S.J. (1990). Perceptual asymmetries in the somatosensory system: A dichhaptic experiment and critical review of the literature from 1929 to 1986. Cortex, 26(1), 201-226. (PDF, 8.23 MB)

Reed, C., Lederman, S.J., & Klatzky, R.L. (1990). Haptic integration of planar size with hardness, texture, and planar contour. Canadian Journal of Psychology, 44(4), 522-545. (PDF, 2.81 MB)

Lederman, S., Klatzky, R., Chataway, C., & Summers, C. (1990). Visual mediation and the haptic recognition of twodimensional pictures of common objects. Perception & Psychophysics, 47(1), 54-64. (PDF, 5.46 MB)  

Lederman, S.J., & Klatzky, R.L. (1990) Haptic exploration and object representation. In M. Goodale (Ed.), Vision and action: The control of grasping, 98-109. New Jersey: Ablex. (PDF, 2.97 MB)

Lederman, S.J., & Klatzky, R.L. (1990). Haptic classification of common objects: Knowledge-driven exploration. Cognitive Psychology, 22, 421-459. (PDF, 3.96 MB)

Lederman, S.J., & Klatzky, R.L. (1990). Flexible exploration by human and robotic haptic systems. Proceedings of the 12th Annual International Conference of the IEEE/Engineering in Medicine & Biology Society, 12(5), 1915-1916. (PDF, 1.36 MB)

Lederman, S.J. (1990). Review of D. Katz 'The World of Touch'. Perception, 19(4), 556-557. (PDF, 982 KB)

Klatzky, R.L., Lederman, S.J., Pellegrino, J., Doherty, S., & McCloskey, B. (1990) Procedures for haptic object exploration vs. manipulation. In M. Goodale (Ed.), Vision and action: The control of grasping. (pp. 110-127). New Jersey: Ablex. (PDF, 5.03 MB)

Klatzky, R.L., & Lederman, S.J. (1990). Intelligent exploration by the human hand. In S. Venkataraman & T. Iberall (Eds.), Dextrous hands for robots (pp. 66-81). New York: SpringerVerlag. (PDF, 4.25 MB)

Lambert, L., & Lederman, S. (1989). An evaluation of the legibility and meaningfulness of potential map symbols. Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness, 83(8), 397-403. (PDF, 4.23 MB)

Klatzky, R.L., Lederman, S., & Reed, C. (1989). Haptic integration of object properties: Texture, hardness, and planar contour. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception & Performance, 15(1), 45-57. (PDF, 1.31 MB)

Balakrishnan, G., Klatzky, R., Loomis, J., & Lederman, S.J. (1989). Length distortion of temporally extended visual displays: Similarity to haptic spatial perception. Perception & Psychophysics, 46(4), 387-394. (PDF, 3.88 MB)

Bajcsy, R., Lederman, S., & Klatzky, R. (1989). Machine systems for exploration and manipulation: A conceptual framework and method of evaluation. University of Pennsylvania Dept. of Computing Science Technical Report MSCIS8903, GRASP LAB 172, 26 pgs.

Lederman, S.J., Browse, R., & Klatzky, R.L. (1988). Haptic processing of spatially distributed information. Perception & Psychophysics, 44(3), 222-232. (PDF, 6.02 MB)

Lederman, S.J., & Browse, R.A. (1988). The physiology and psychophysics of touch. In P. Dario (Ed.), Sensors and sensory systems for advanced robots. (pp. 71-91). NATO ASI Series F: Computer and Systems Science, SpringerVerlag: Berlin.) (PDF, 4.49 MB)

Klatzky, R.L., Lederman, S.J., Bajcsy, R., Stansfield, S., Ulrich, N., & Paul, R.L. (1988). Haptic exploration in humans and machines: attribute integration and machine recognition/implementation. Office of Naval Research Technical Report #8801, 54 pgs.

Barber, P., & Lederman S.J. (1988). Encoding direction in manipulatory space and the role of visual experience. Journal of Visual Impairment and Blindness, 82(3), 99-106. (PDF, 2.07 MB)

Lederman, S.J., & von Grunau, M. (1987). A Computerized Perception Labs and Demonstrations package. Copyright: 1985. Description in Vision Research 2, no. 7, pp II. (PDF, 1.58 MB)

Lederman, S.J., Klatzky, R.L., Collins, A., & Wardell, J. (1987). Exploring environments by hand or foot: Time-based heuristics for encoding distance in movement space. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, & Cognition, 13(4), 606-614. (PDF, 9.31 MB)

Lederman, S.J. , Klatzky, R.L., & Bajcsy, R. (1987). Haptic exploration in humans and machines: An initial overview. Office of Naval Research Technical Report #8701, 51 pgs.

Lederman, S.J., & Klatzky, R.L. (1987). Hand movements: A window into haptic object recognition. Cognitive Psychology, 19(3), 342-368. (PDF, 3.34 MB)

Klatzky, R., Lederman, S.J., & Reed, C. (1987). There's more to touch than meets the eye: The salience of object attributes for haptics with and without vision. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 116(4), 356-369. (PDF, 7.1 MB)

Klatzky, R.L., Lederman, S.J., & Reed, C. (1987). There's more to touch than meets the eye: The relative salience of object dimensions for touch with and without vision. Cognitive Sciences Technical Report #8714.

Klatzky, R., & Lederman, S.J. (1987). The representation of objects in memory: Contrasting perspectives from vision and touch. In M. Gruneberg, P. Morris, & R. Sykes (Eds.), Practical aspects of memory, Vol. 2 (pp. 426-433). Chichester, G.B.: Wiley. (PDF, 2.88 MB)

Klatzky, R.L., & Lederman, S.J. (1987). The intelligent hand. In G. Bower (Ed.), Psychology of learning and motivation: Advances in research and theory. (Vol. 21, pp.121-151). New York: Academic Press. (PDF, 8.85 MB)

Bajcsy, R., Lederman, S.J., & Klatzky, R.L. (1987). Object exploration in one and two fingered robots. Proceedings of the 1987 IEEE International Conference on Robotics & Automation, 3, 1806-1810. New York: Computer Society Press. (PDF, 2.31 MB)

Loomis, J.M., & Lederman, S.J. (1986). Tactual perception. In K. Boff, L. Kaufman, & J. Thomas (Eds.), Handbook of perception and human performance. (pp. 31-1 - 31-41). New York: Wiley. (PDF, 8.36 MB)

Lederman, S.J., Thorne, G., & Jones, B. (1986). Perception of texture by vision and touch: Multidimensionality and intersensory integration. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception & Performance, 12(2), 169-180. (PDF, 3.20 MB)

Lederman, S.J., & Klatzky, R.L. (1986). Hand movements: A window into haptic object recognition. Cognitive Science Technical Report # 8606, University of California at Santa Barbara.

Klatzky, R.L., Lederman, S.J., Roan, R., & Andre, K. (1986). HAND (Haptic Apprehension and Naming Device). Cognitive Science Technical Report 8601, University of California at Santa Barbara.

Lederman, S.J., Klatzky, R.L., & Barber, P.O. (1985). Spatial and movement-based heuristics: A reply to S. Millar. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 114(2), 267-268. (PDF, 520 KB)

Lederman, S.J., Klatzky, R.L., & Barber, P.O. (1985). Spatial and movement-based heuristics for encoding pattern information through touch. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 114, 33-49. (PDF, 7.29 MB)  

Lederman, S.J. (1985). Tactual roughness perception in human: A psychophysical assessment of the role of vibration. In I. Darian Smith & A. Goodwin (Eds.), Hand function and the neocortex. SpringerVerlag. (PDF, 2.66 MB)

Klatzky, R.L., Lederman, S.J., & Metzger, V. (1985). Identifying objects by touch: An "expert system". Perception & Psychophysics, 37(4), 299-302. (PDF, 2.02 MB)

Browse, R.A., & Lederman, S.J. (1985). Feature based robotic tactile perception. Proceedings of Compint85, IEEE Conference on Computer Aided Technologies, 455-458. (PDF, 4.18 MB)

Browse, R., & Lederman, S.J. (1985). A framework for robotic perception. Technical Report 85165, Dept. of Computing & Information Science, Queen's University, 19 pgs.

Lederman, S.J., & Klatzky, R.L. (1984). Haptic perception/identification of 2 and 3dimensional patterns: Research and application. Braille Research Newsletter, 15, 20.

Addendum A: Loomis, J. M. & Lederman, S.J. (1984). What utility is there in distinguishing between active and passive touch? Paper presented at the Psychonomic Society meeting, San Antonio, Texas, November 1984.

Lederman, S.J., Jones, B., & Segalowitz, S.J. (1984). Lateral symmetry in the tactual perception of roughness. Canadian Journal of Psychology, 38(4), 599-609. (PDF, 2.98 MB)  

Lederman, S.J. (1984). Book review of I. Rock's The logic of perception. Queen's Quarterly, 91(3), 742-745. (PDF, 1.58 MB)

Marchetti, F.M., & Lederman, S.J. (1983). The haptic radial-tangential effect: Two tests of Wong's (1977) "moments-of-inertia" hypothesis. Bulletin of the Psychonomic Society, 21(1), 43-46. (PDF, 2.82 MB)

Lederman, S. J., & Campbell, J. I. (1983). Tangible line graphs: An evaluation and some systematic strategies for exploration. Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness, 77(3), 108-112. (PDF, 2.87 MB)

Lederman, S.J. (1983). Tactual roughness perception: Spatial and temporal determinants. Canadian Journal of Psychology, 37, 498-511. (PDF, 3.52 MB)

Lederman, S.J. (1983). Psychophysical research on standard English braille and expanded braille code: A review and research proposal. Report commissioned by the Ad Hoc Research Committee of the Braille Authority of North America. (PDF, 3.23 MB)

Lederman, S.J., Loomis, J.M., & Williams, D. (1982). The role of vibration in the tactual perception of roughness. Perception & Psychophysics, 32(2), 109-116. (PDF, 3.61 MB)

Lederman, S.J., & Campbell, J.I. (1982). Tangible graphs for the blind. Human Factors, 24(1), 85-100. (PDF, 4.97 MB)

Lederman, S.J. (1982). Tactual graphics. Braille Research Newsletter, 13, 1821.

Lederman, S.J. (1982). The perception of texture by touch. In W. Schiff & E. Foulke (Eds.), Tactual perception: A sourcebook. New York: Cambridge University Press. (PDF, 4.24 MB)

Lederman, S.J., & Nichols, B. (1981). Flicker and motion in film. In Nichols, W. Ideology and image. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press. (PDF, 6.99 MB)

Lederman, S.J., & Abbott, S.G. (1981). Texture perception: Studies of intersensory organization using a discrepancy paradigm and visual versus tactual psychophysics. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception & Performance, 7(4), 902-915. (PDF, 6.21 MB)

Lederman, S.J. (1981). The perception of surface roughness by active and passive touch. Bulletin of the Psychonomic Society, 18(5), 253-255. (PDF, 1.39 MB)

Segalowitz, S., Bebout, L., & Lederman, S.J. (1979). Lateralization for reading musical chords: Disentangling symbolic, analytic, and phonological aspects of reading. Brain & Language, 8, 315-323. (PDF, 20.6 MB)

Nichols, B., & Lederman, S.J. (1979). Flicker and motion in film.   In Heath, S., & deLauretis, T. The cinematic apparatus. New York: Macmillan.

Lederman, S.J., & Kinch, D. (1979). Texture in tactual maps and graphics for the visually handicapped. Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness, 73(6), 217-227. (PDF, 6.58 MB)

Lederman, S.J. (1979). Tactual mapping from a psychologist's perspective. Bulletin of the Association of Canadian Map Libraries, 32, 21-25.

Lederman, S.J. (1979). Auditory texture perception. Perception, 8, 93-103. (PDF, 4.33 MB)

Green, B.G., Lederman, S.J., & Stevens, J.C. (1979). The effect of skin temperature on the perception of roughness. Sensory Processes, 3, 327-333 (published in 1981) (PDF, 1.87 MB)

Lederman, S.J. (1978). "Improving one's touch"... and more. Perception & Psychophysics, 24(2), 154-160. (PDF, 1.64 MB)

Lederman, S.J. (1978). Heightening tactile impressions of surface texture. In G. Gordon (Ed.) Active touch: the mechanism of recognition of objects by manipulation. An interdisciplinary approach. Oxford: Pergamon. (PDF, 2.31 MB)

Lederman, S.J. (1977). Touch: A computerized bibliography. Perceptual & Motor Skills, 45, 287-291. (PDF, 859 KB)

Lederman, S.J. (1976). The 'callusthenics' of touching. Canadian Journal of Psychology, 30(2), 82-89. (PDF, 2.87 MB)

Taylor, M.M., & Lederman, S.J. (1975). Tactile roughness of grooved surfaces: A model and the effect of friction. Perception & Psychophysics, 17(1), 23-36. (PDF, 2.99 MB)

Lederman, S.J. (1975). Early perceptual development in humans and animals: A bibliography of English language papers, l967-l974. Perceptual & Motor Skills, 41, 875-894. (PDF, 8.83 MB)

Lederman, S.J. (1974). Tactile roughness of grooved surfaces: The touching process and effects of macro and microsurface structure. Perception & Psychophysics, 16(2), 385-395. (PDF, 6.13 MB)

Taylor, M.M., Lederman, S.J., & Gibson, R.H. (1973). Tactual perception of texture. In Carterette, E., & Friedman, M. (Eds.), Handbook of perception Vol. III. New York: Academic Press. (PDF, 7.03 MB)

Lederman, S.J., & Taylor, M.M. (1972). Fingertip force, surface geometry and the perception of roughness by active touch. Perception & Psychophysics, 12(5), 401-408. (PDF, 5.20 MB)

Lederman, S.J., & Taylor, M.M. (1969). Perception of interpolated position and orientation by vision and active touch. Perception & Psychophysics, 6(3), 153-159. (PDF, 3.57 MB)

Clarke, D.P.J., & Lederman, S.J. (1967). The acoustic properties of headgear: XXVI. Technical Memorandum #678, Defence & Civil Institute of Environmental Medicine.

Clarke, D.P.J., & Lederman, S.J. (1967). The acoustic properties of headgear: XXV. Technical Memorandum #677, Defence & Civil Institute of Environmental Medicine, Toronto.

B.A. (Hons.), Bishop University, 1966
M.A., University of Waterloo, 1969
Ph.D., University of Waterloo, 1972

Research Interests

Attitudes toward and stereotypes of older people; perceptions of psychopathology and its treatment in older adults; adult development and aging.

B.A., University of Sheffield, 1961
Ph.D., University of Saskatchewan, 1969

Research Interests

After many years of working as a social and environmental Psychologist, my current research and writing focuses mainly on strategies for enhancing teaching and learning in higher education settings, and on ways of leading change in university teaching.

B.Sc., University of Toronto, 1976
M.A., University of Western Ontario, 1978
Ph.D., University of Western Ontario, 1982

Research Interests

My research has three primary interests: (a) suicide; (b) strategies for constructing inventories of personality and psychopathology; and (c) methods for detecting faking on self-report inventories. Research on suicide concerns clinical and non-clinical populations and examines the roles of psychache, hopelessness, and motivations in predicting suicide ideation, attempts, and completions. In test construction, my focus is on evaluating the best methods for writing individual test items. Applications include research, clinical, counseling, employment, and forensic contexts. Investigations of faking examine the formulation of models of responding and the search for anomalies that indicate discrepancies (i.e., lies). Research deals with student, psychiatric patient, inmate, and job applicant populations.

Selected Publications

Campos, R. C., Holden, R. R., & Lambert, C. E. (in press). Avoidance of psychological pain and suicidal ideation in community samples: Replication across two countries and two languages. Journal of Clinical Psychology.

Campos, R. C., Holden, R. R., Spínola, J., Marques, D., & Santos, S. (in press). Exposure to suicide in the family: Suicidal ideation and thwarted interpersonal needs in individuals who have lost a family member by suicide. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease.

Holden, R. R., & Fekken, G. C. (in press). Depressive disorders and suicidality. In M. Sellbom & J. Suhr (Eds.). Cambridge handbook of clinical assessment and diagnosis. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Book, A., Visser, B. A., Volk, A., Holden, R. R., & D’Agata, M. T. (2019). Ice and fire: Two paths to provoked aggression. Personality and Individual Differences, 138, 247-251.

Bouchard, K. N., Stewart, J. G., Boyer, S. C., Holden, R. R., & Pukall, C. F. (2019). Sexuality and personality correlates of willingness to participate in sex research. Canadian Journal of Human Sexuality. The Canadian Journal of Human Sexuality. doi:10.3138/cjhs.2018-0028

Campos, R. C., & Holden, R. R. (2019). Portuguese version of the Suicidal Behaviors Questionnaire-Revised: Validation data and the establishment of a cut-score for screening purposes. European Journal of Psychological Assessment, 35, 190-195.

Campos, R. C., Simões, A., Costa, S., Sofia Pio, A. S., & Holden, R. R. (2019). Psychological pain and suicidal ideation in undergraduates: The role of pain avoidance. Death Studies. doi.org/10.1080/07481187.2018.1554610

Dave, H. P., Keefer, K., Snetsinger, S., Holden, R. R., & Parker, J. D. A. (2019). Predicting the pursuit of post-secondary education: Role of trait emotional intelligence in a longitudinal study. Frontiers in Psychology, 10:1182. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.01182

Holden, R. R. (2019). Holden, Ronald R. In V. Zeigler-Hill & T. Shackelford (Eds.), Encyclopedia of personality and individual differences. New York: Springer. doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28099-8_2319-1

Holden, R. R., Marjanovic, Z., & Troister, T. (2019). Indiscriminate responding can increase effect sizes for clinical phenomena in non-clinical populations: A cautionary note. Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 37, 464-472. doi: 10.1177/0734282918758809g

Marjanovic, Z., & Holden, R. R. (2019). Differentiating conscientious from indiscriminate responders in existing NEO-Five Factor Inventory-3 data. Journal of Research in Personality, 81, 127-137.0.

Schermer, J. A., & Holden, R. R. (2019). Personality facet loadings onto the general factor of personality change when social desirability responding is considered. Personality and Individual Differences, 147, 200-203.

Schermer, J. A., Holden, R. R., & Krammer, G. (2019). The general factor of personality is very robust under faking conditions. Personality and Individual Differences, 138, 63-68.

Breton, S., van Vlymen, J., Xia, S., Holden, R. R., Phelan, R., Sagan, S. M., & Jaeger, M. (2018). A survey of medication preparation and administration practices among members of the Canadian Anesthesiologists’ Society. Canadian Journal of Anesthesia. doi.org/10.1007/s12630-018-1164-5

Campos, R. C., & Holden, R. R. (2018). Past depressive experiences do relate to suicidal ideation even when controlling for current depressive symptoms. Journal of Affective Disorders, 240, 212-213. doi: 10.1016/j.jad.2018.07.068

Campos, R. C., Holden,. R. R., Beleizão, C., Caçador, B., & Fragata, A. S. (2018). Self-criticism, neediness, and distress in the prediction of suicide ideation: Results from cross-sectional and longitudinal studies. The Journal of Psychology, 152, 237-255.

Campos, R. C., Holden, R. R., Caçador, B., Fragata, A. S., & Beleizão, C. (2018). Self-criticism, intensity of perceived negative life events, and distress: Results from a two-wave study. Personality and Individual Differences, 124, 145-149.

Campos, R. C., Holden, R. R., & Gomes, M. (2018). Assessing psychache as a suicide risk variable: Data with the Portuguese version of the Psychache Scale. Death Studies. doi: 10.1080/07481187.2018.1493002

Campos, R. C., Holden, R. R., & Santos, S. (2018). Exposure to suicide in the family: Suicide risk and psychache in individuals who have lost a family member by suicide. Journal of Clinical Psychology, 74, 407-417.

D’Agata, M. T., & Holden, R. R. (2018). Self-concealment and perfectionistic self-presentation in the concealment of psychache and suicide ideation. Personality and Individual Differences, 125, 56-61.

Holden, R. R., Lambert, C. E., Bianchini, G., Wong, R. E., Towheed, S., Yeung, C., & Fekken, G. C. (2018). Response surface modeling of how love mitigates the association between a need to belong and suicidality. Personality and Individual Differences, 134, 210-213.

Montemarano, V., Troister, T., Lambert, C. E., & Holden, R. R. (2018). A four-year longitudinal study examining psychache and suicide ideation in elevated-risk undergraduates: A test of Shneidman’s model of suicidal behavior. Journal of Clinical Psychology, 74, 1820-1832.

Campos, R. C., Gomes, M., Holden, R. R., Piteira, M., & Rainha, A. (2017). Does psychache mediate the relationship between general distress and suicide ideation in the general population? Death Studies, 41, 241-245.

Campos, R. C., Holden, R. R., Costa, F., Oliveira, A. R., Abreu, M., & Fresca, N. (2017). The moderating effect of gender on the relationship between coping and suicide risk in a Portuguese community sample of adults. Journal of Mental Health, 26, 66-73.

Dargie, E., Holden, R. R., Pukall, C. F. (2017). The Vulvar Pain Assessment Questionnaire: Factor structure, preliminary norms, internal consistency, & test-retest reliability. Journal of Sexual Medicine, 14, 1585-1596.

Ducasse, D., Holden, R. R., Boyer, L., Artero, S., Calati, R., Guillaume, S., Courtet, P., & Olie, E. (2017). Psychological pain in suicidality: A meta-analysis. The Journal of Clinical Psychiatry. https://doi.org/10.4088/JCP.16r10732

Gilron, I., Tu, D., Holden, R. R., Jackson, A. C., Ghasemlou, N., Duggan, S., Vandenkerkhof, E., & Milev, R. (2017). PAin Improvement with Novel Combination Analgesic REgimens: The PAIN-CARE trial. JMIR Research Protocols, 6(6), e111  doi:10.2196/resprot.7493

Gilron, I., Tu, D., Holden, R. R., Towheed, T., Vandenkerkhof, E., & Milev, R. (2017). Combination Analgesic Development for Enhanced Clinical Efficacy (CADENCE Trial): Study protocol for a double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled crossover trial of an alpha-lipoic acid-pregabalin combination for the treatment of fibromyalgia pain. JMIR Research Protocols, 6(8), e154.

Gilron, I., Tu, D., Holden, R. R., Towheed, T., Ziegler, D., Wang; L., Milev, R. & Gray, C. (2017) Innovations in the Management of Musculoskeletal Pain with Alpha-Lipoic Acid (IMPALA Trial): Study protocol for a double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled crossover trial of alpha-lipoic acid for the treatment of fibromyalgia pain. JMIR Research Protocols, 6(3), e41 doi:10.2196/resprot.7198

He, D., Grant, B., Holden, R. R., & Gilron, I. (2017). Assessing “spontaneous, or rest” pain versus “evoked, or movement-related” pain in chronic neuropathic conditions: A prospective observational pilot study. PAIN Reports, e587. DOI: 10.1097/PR9.0000000000000587

Holden, R. R., & Fekken, G. C. (2017). The Balanced Inventory of Desirable Responding. In V. Zeigler-Hill & T. K. Shackelford (Eds.), Encyclopedia of personality and individual differences. New York: Springer. DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-28099-8_3-1

Holden, R. R., & Fekken, G. C. (2017). The Basic Personality Inventory. In V. Zeigler-Hill & T. K. Shackelford (Eds.), Encyclopedia of personality and individual differences. New York: Springer. DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-28099-8_4-1

Holden, R. R., Lambert, C. E., D’Agata, M. T., & Book, A. S. (2017). Response patterns for the identification of fakers: Detecting drifting dissimulators. Personality and Individual Differences, 108, 195-199.

B.A., Franklin and Marshall College, 1963
M.A., University of Michigan, 1965
Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1968

Research Interests

• Determinants of seniors' independence
• Adjustment to aging
• Attitudes toward and beliefs about older adults
• Attitudes toward and beliefs about institutionalization
• Attitudes toward and beliefs about mental disorders in older adults
• The relationships among stress, health, and aging
• Health Care Policy regarding older adults

Selected Publications

Knox, V.J., Gekoski, W.L., & Kelly, L.E. (1995). The Age Group Evaluation and Description (AGED) Inventory: A new instrument for assessing attitudes toward and beliefs about age groups. International Journal of Aging and Human Behavior, 40, 31-55.

French, S.L., Gekoski, W.L., & Knox, V.J. (1995). Gender differences in relating life events and well-being in elderly individuals. Social Indicators, 35, 1-25.

Zivian, M.T., Larsen, W., Gekoski, W.L., Knox, V.J., & Hachette, V. (1994). Psychotherapy for the elderly: Public opinion. Psychotherapy, 31, 492-502.

Zamble, E., & Gekoski, W.L. (1994). Coping. In Encyclopedia of Human Behavior, (V.S. Ramachandran, Ed.), Vol 2. New York: Academic Press, 1-10.

Zivian, M.T., Larsen, W., Knox, V.J., Gekoski, W.L., & Hatchette, V. (1992). Psychotherapy for the Elderly: Psychotherapists' Preferences. Psychotherapy, 29, 668-674.

French, S.L., Knox, V.J., & Gekoski, W.L. (1992). Methodological problems in relating life events to illness in the elderly: Confounding. American Journal of Community Psychology, 20, 243-252.

Gekoski, W.L., Knox, V.J., & Kelly, L.E. (1991). The factor analytic structure of the Aging Semantic Differential: A failure to replicate Rosencranz and McNevin. Journal of Social Psychology, 131, 593-595.

Hendrick, J.J., Gekoski, W.L. & Knox, V.J. (1991). The accuracy of perceived cognitive abilities across adulthood. Canadian Journal on Aging, 10, 165-176.

Knox, V.J. & Gekoski, W.L. (1990). Longevity and infirmity: An inevitable relationship? Queen's Quarterly, 97, (No. 1), 3-21.

Gekoski, W.L., & Knox, V.J. (1990). Ageism or healthism? Perceptions based on age and health status. Journal of Aging and Health, 2, 15-27.

B.Sc., Ohio State University, 1960
M.A., University of Missouri, 1963
Ph.D., University of Missouri, 1966

Research Interests

Extensive training in neuroanatomical, neurophysiological, general physiological, histological, psychopharmacological, surgical, behaviour modification, and computer techniques. I was engaged in research on variables contributing to long-term smoking patterns and applications of autocorrelations to time-series analysis.

Other research interests included task-dependent properties of rewarding brain stimulation: pain, stress and endorphin release in the CNS; effects of toxic substances on brain and behaviour processes. I was also involved in a survey of harassment among male and female penitentiary staff.

B.A., Loyola College Montreal, 1960
M.A., University of Ottawa, 1962
Ph.D., McGill University, 1968
P.D.F., Yale University Medical School and VA Medical Centre, West Haven

About Merlin Donald

Merlin Donald is a Emeritus Professor in the Department of Psychology and Faculty of Education, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada. A cognitive neuroscientist with a background in philosophy, he is the author of many scientific papers, and two influential books: Origins of the Modern Mind: Three stages in the evolution of culture and cognition (Harvard, 1991), and A Mind So Rare: The evolution of human consciousness (Norton, 2001).

His PhD was obtained from McGill in 1968, and subsequently he spent two years at the School of Medicine, Yale University, as an NRC Post-Doctoral Fellow, followed by almost three years at the West Haven Veterans Administration Medical Center as a Research Neuropsychologist. He has been at Queen’s University since 1972. He has also been a visiting professor at University College, London (three times), Harvard, Stanford, the University of California at San Diego, and elsewhere. He has also been a Visitor at the Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioural Sciences, at Stanford, California. He was awarded a Killam Research Fellowship from 1994 to 1996, and is a Fellow of the Canadian Psychological Association (1984), and the Royal Society of Canada (1995).

Most of Dr. Donald’s early empirical work was in the field of human cognitive and clinical neuroscience, with a specialization in electrophysiology. During the past 15 years he has returned to the topic that drew him to psychology in the first place: human intellectual and cognitive origins. This work bridges several disciplines in the sciences, social sciences and humanities. His central thesis is that human beings have evolved a completely novel cognitive strategy: brain-culture symbiosis. As a consequence, the human brain cannot realize its design potential unless it is immersed in a distributed communication network, that is, a culture, during its development. The human brain is, quite literally, specifically adapted for functioning in a complex symbolic culture.

Where would these complex communication networks have come from in the first place, if they were largely absent in our ancestors, the Miocene apes? This question was first addressed in his first book, Origins of the Modern Mind: Three stages in the evolution of culture and cognition, published by Harvard University Press in 1991. The central thesis of that work was that symbolic thought and language were ultimately products of changes in the primate executive brain, rather than of a specific language “chip.” These changes expanded some basic attentional, metacognitive, and retrieval capacities that were nascent in primates, and highly evolved in hominids. These capacities were crucial in meeting the adaptive challenges of increasing social complexity, with an associated need for very rapid learning and an optimally flexible epigenetic strategy. This idea was further developed in a series of papers and in a book entitled A mind so rare: The evolution of human consciousness (W. W. Norton, April, 2001).

Dr. Donald is currently trying to understand how the slow-moving biology of the brain can deal with the changing cognitive ecology. Humanity is greatly concerned about changes in the physical ecology, but has largely ignored equally massive changes in the cognitive ecology, even though the latter will probably set our future direction as a species.

Research Interests

• Human cognitive evolution
• Human brain mapping
• Mimesis and creativity
• Origins of language
• Effects of material culture and technology on cognition
• Evolution of cultural-cognitive networks

Selected Articles

Donald, M.,2010. The Exographic Revolution: Neuropsychological Sequelae. In Malafouris L. & Renfrew C. (eds) The Cognitive Life of Things: Recasting the boundaries of the mind. Cambridge, UK: McDonald Institute Monographs, pp.71-79. (PDF, 233 KB)

Donald, M. The definition of human nature, in the context of modern neurobiology. In D. A.Rees and S. P. R. Rose, eds, The new brain sciences: Perils and prospects. Cambridge,UK: Cambridge University Press, 2004, 34-58. (PDF, 3.09 MB)

Donald, M. The slow process: A hypothetical cognitive adaptation for distributed cognitive networks. Journal of Physiology (Paris), 2007, 101:214-222. (PDF, 2.98 MB)

Donald, M. How culture and brain mechanisms interact in decision making. In C. Engel and W. Singer, Better than conscious? Decision-making, the Human Mind, and Implications for institutions. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press 2008, 191-225. (PDF, 2.3 MB)

Boyd, R., Cohen, J, Donald, M., Guth, W., Johnson, E., Kurzban, R., Schooler, L,J., Schooler, J, Spelke, E., & Trommershauser, J. Explicit and implicit strategies in decision making. In C. Engel and W. Singer,Better than conscious? Decision-making, the Human Mind, and Implications for institutions. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press 2008, 225-258. (PDF, 5.44 MB)

Donald, M. A view from cognitive science. In D. Genten, V. Gerhardt, J.-C. Heilinger and J. Nida-Rumalin, eds, What is a human being?, Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Science, Berlin: de Gruyter, 2008, 45-49. (PDF, 721 KB)

Donald, M. The sapient paradox: Can cognitive neuroscience solve it? Brain, December 2, 2008, doi: 10.1093/brain/awn290 (PDF, 1.43 MB)

Consciousness and Governance: From embodiment to enculturation - an interview. In L. Andreassen, L. Brandt, & J. Vang, (Eds.) Cognitive Semiotics. 2007, 68-83. (PDF, 1.87 MB)

Evolutionary Origins of the Social Brain. In O. Vilarroya, & F.F i Argimon, (Eds.) Social Brain Matters: Stances on the Neurobiology of Social Cognition. Rodopi, 2007, 18: 215-222. (PDF, 1.29 MB)

Art and Cognitive Evolution. In M. Turner, (Ed.) The Artful Mind: Cognitive Science and the Riddle of Human Creativity. Oxford University Press, 2006, 1:3-20.  (PDF, 2.61 MB)

Imitation and Mimesis. In S. Hurley, & N. Chater, (Eds.) Perspectives on Imitation: From Neuroscience to Social Science, Volume 2: Imitation, Human Development, and Culture. MIT Press, 2005, 14:282-300. (PDF, 2.34 MB)

The Application of Ideomotor Theory to Imitation. In. S. Hurley, & N. Chater, (Eds.) Perspectives on Imitation: From Neuroscience to Social Science, Volume 1: Mechanisms of Imitation and Imitation in Animals. MIT Press, 2005, 8: 217-218. (PDF, 311 KB)

The Relation between Language and (Mimetic) Culture. Morten H. Christiansen on Donald.  Perspectives on Imitation: From Neuroscience to Social Science, Volume 2: Imitation, Human Development, and Culture. MIT Press, 2005, 19:390-398 (PDF, 1.0 MB)

Is a Picture Really Worth a 1,000 Words? Review essay of David S. Staley, Computers, Visualization and History: How New Technology Will Transform Our Understanding of the Past. History and Theory: Studies in the Philosophy of History, 43:3, 379-385, 2004. (PDF, 112 KB)

The Primacy of Motor Evolution and The Mimetic Origins of Language. ( translated in Japanese). In Kaguku (Science), A. Iriki, ed, Special Issue on the Origins of Language, 74:7, 878-881, July 2004. (PDF, 455 KB)

The virtues of rigorous interdisciplinarity. In  J.M. Lucariello, J.A. Hudson, R. Fivush & P.J. Bauer (Eds.) The Development of the Mediated Mind Development, Ch.12,. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2004.  (PDF, 136 MB)

Il tessuto dei sensi: Ordito della cultura, la trama della mente. (translated into Italian). In Le tattiche dei sensi, Antomarini A., Biscuso M., and Traversa, A., eds, I libri di Montag, 85-93, 2001. (PDF, 4.10 MB)

Memory Palaces: The Revolutionary Function of Libraries. Queen's Quarterly 108/4 (Winter 2001) pp. 559-572.  (PDF, 1.30 MB)

Towards a new agenda for neurolinguistics. Review of Philip Lieberman's Human Language and our Reptilian Brain: The subcortical Bases of Speech, Syntax and Thought. Cortex, 2001, XXXVII:2, 279-283. (PDF, 1.11 MB)

Cognitive Evolution and the Definition of Human Nature. Philosophy of Science Monographs, Morris Foundation, Little Rock, Arkansas, 2000, 31pp. (PDF, 3.12 MB)  Abstract (PDF, 87 KB)    

The central role of culture in cognitive evolution: a reflection on the myth of the 'isolated mind'. In L. Nucci, ed. Culture, Thought and Development, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2000, 19-38. (PDF, 1.76 MB)   Abstract (PDF, 90 KB)

Preconditions for the evolution of protolanguages. In The Descent of Mind, Ed. M.C.Corballis & I.Lea. Oxford University Press, 1999, 355-365. (PDF, 1.83 MB)  Abstract (PDF, 123 KB)

The Widening Gyre: Religion, Culture and Evolution. Science & Spirit, 10:2, 22-30, July/August 1999. (PDF, 5.04 MB)

Hominid enculturation and cognitive evolution. In C. Renfrew, P. Mellars, & C. Scarre, eds. Cognition and Material Culture: the archaeology of external symbolic storage. Cambridge, U.K., The McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, 1998, 7-17.   (PDF, 1.90 MB)

Material Culture and Cognition: Concluding Thoughts. In C. Renfrew & C. Scarre (Eds) Cognition and Material Culture: the Archaeology of Symbolic Storage. Cambridge, U.K., The McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, 1998, 181-187.  (PDF, 1.15 MB)

Mimesis and the Executive Suite: missing links in language evolution. In J. R. Hurford. M.Studdert-Kennedy, & C. Knight, eds. Approaches to the Evolution of language: social and cognitive bases. Cambridge University Press, 1998, 44-67. (PDF, 2.92 MB)  Abstract (PDF, 87 KB)

The mind considered from a historical perspective: human cognitive phylogenesis and the possibility of continuing cognitive evolution. In D. Johnson & C. Ermeling (Eds.) The Future of the Cognitive Revolution, Oxford University Press, 1997, 478-492.  (PDF, 1.24 MB)

Précis of Origins of the Modern Mind (3) Continuing Commentary,  Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 1996, 19: 155-164. (PDF, 1.78 MB)

The neurobiology of human consciousness: an evolutionary approach. Neuropsychologia,1995, 33:1087-1102. (PDF, 2.22 MB)

Human cognitive evolution: what we were, what we are becoming, Social Research, 1993, 60: 143-170. (PDF, 2.06 MB)#1

Précis of Origins of the Modern Mind with multiple review and author's response. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 16: 737-791, 1993.  Part A  (PDF, 1.63 MB)     Part B (PDF, 8.83 MB)

Books

Origins of the Modern Mind

(Available in both hardcover and paperback. Paperback: Reprint edition February 1993)

Publisher: Harvard University Pr; [ISBN: 0674644840]
Origins of the Modern Mind : Three Stages in the Evolution of Culture and Cognition by Merlin Donald

"A fine, provocative and absorbing account of what makes humans human." - Kirkus Reviews

"Neuropsychology and cognitive science are concerned largely with the fundamental structure of the modern human mind. Although some attention has been paid to the phylogenetic succession of changes that must have led to the modern mind (see, for instance, Anderson, 1983), emphasis has been placed mostly upon the modern structure of human mental capacities, without taking their evolution into account. It is not an exaggeration to say that theories of cognitive structure are built mostly upon studies of the human mind as manifest in literate, postindustrial society and upon studies of the capabilities of computers. The extraordinary range of theory that has resulted was constructed for the most part without the constraints that must be applied to evolutionary hypotheses: continuity with previous forms, consistency with selection pressures, parsimony with regard to the number and complexity of successive adaptations, and so on. The result is that structural, that is, modular, models of mind proliferate without regard to their biological feasibility, even with neuropsychology."

A Mind So Rare: The Evolution of Human Consciousness

(Hardcover - June 2001)

Publisher: WW Norton [ISBN 0-393-04950-7]

A Mind So Rare: The Evolution of Human Consciousness by Merlin Donald

 "Merlin Donald transcends the simplistic claims of evolutionary psychology. He offers a true Darwinian perspective on the evolution of consciousness-one which takes account, in Darwin's words, of "the infinitely complex relations between organic beings and external nature", in this instance the complex adaptive relationships that hold between the human mind-brain and human culture." - Philip Lieberman, author of Eve Spoke

A Mind So Rare: The Evolution of Human Consciousness

(Paperback - June 2002)

Publisher: WW Norton [ISBN: 0393323196]

A Mind So Rare: The Evolution of Human Consciousness by Merlin Donald

"In A Mind So Rare, Merlin Donald has achieved the almost impossible--an elegant, witty, and accessible account of mind and consciousness which is always respectful of, but never subservient to, the take-over demands of the neurosciences. In his insistence that minds are open systems, constituted both by a person's biology and the society and culture in which that biology is embedded, Donald has rescued minds from those who would reduce them to information processing computers and the naiveté of evolutionary psychology. The most significant contribution yet to the rapidly growing literature of minds, brains, and consciousness." - Steven Rose author of Lifelines, Biology beyond Determinism.

Les Origines de L'Esprit Moderne

(Traduction de la 1re édition americaine par Christele Emenegger et Francis Eustache - French translation by C. Ermenegger & F. Eustache)

Publisher: DeBoeck Université [ISBN 2-7445-0042-9]

Les Origines de L’Esprit Moderne: Trois étapes dans l’évolution de la culture et de la cognition by Merlin Donald

Cet ouvrage porte sur un sujet encore peu envisagé par les psychologues et les neuropsychologues, tout au moins en Europe. Comment intégrer, et sur quelles bases empiriques, les vestiges de l'évolution phylogénétique dans les théories cognitives et neuropsychologiques de l'homme d'aujourd´hui?

L'Evoluzione Della Mente: Per una teoria darwiniana della coscienza

(Italian translation by Laura Montixi Comoglio)

Publisher: Garzanti [ISBN 88-11-59310-7]

L'Evoluzione Della Menta Per una teoria darwiniana della coscienza by Merlin Donald

I tre stadi dello sviluppo della coscienza: dalla capacità di reppresentare il proprio sapere attraverso gesti volontari allo stadio <>, connesso all'elaborazione del linguaggio, fino all'elaborazione di sistemi simbolici complessi.

Origens Do Pensamento Moderno

Servico de Educacao [ISBN 972-31-0820-8]

Fundacão Calouste Gulbenkian

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Origens Do Pensamento Moderno by Merlin Donald

A.B., Dartmouth College, 1964
M.A., University of Waterloo, 1967
Ph.D., University of Waterloo, 1969

Research Interests

Dr. Peters is a Professor of Psychology at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. He has been involved in the field of child development and children's mental health research for over 35 years. His major research interests concern the promotion of children's well-being and the prevention of children's mental health problems.

As Research Director for the Better Beginnings, Better Futures Project, he heads a multidisciplinary group of universities, and local research teams in disadvantaged neighbourhoods across Ontario. The focus of this research is evaluating community-based programs which influence the development of young children and their families. Dr. Peters has been a Visiting Scientist at the Mental Health Division of the World Health Organization in Geneva, and the Social Learning Center in Eugene, OR. He has been a member of the Executive Committee of the Banff International Conference on Behavioural Science since 1981, and chaired the March 2003 meetings on "Effective Progress for Early Childhood Development."

He has also served as a member of the Expert Advisory Committee for the Canadian National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth, and is a member of the Directing Counsel for the Health Canada Centre of Excellence for Early Childhood Development.

Selected Publications

Peters, R. DeV. (2005). A community-based approach to promoting resilience in young children, their families, and their neighbourhoods. In Peters, R. DeV., Leadbeater, B., & McMahon, R.J. (Eds). Resilience in children, families and communities: Linking context to practice and policy (pp. 157-176). New York: Springer.

Herry, Y., Peters, R. DeV., & Arnold, R. (2004). Le project Partir d'un bon pas pour un avenir meilleur: ses effets à court terme auprès de la population de Cornwall. Canadian Journal of Community Mental Health.

Peters, R. DeV., Petrunka, K., & Arnold, R. (2003). The Better Beginnings, Better Futures Project. A universal, comprehensive, community-based prevention approach for primary school children and their families. Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 32, 215-226.

Pancer, S.M., Nelson, G., Dearing, B., Dearing, S., Hayward, K., & Peters, R. DeV. (2003). Promoting wellness in families and children through community-based interventions: The Highfield Community Enrichment Project. In K. Kufeldt & B. McKenzie (Eds.). Child Welfare: Connecting research, policy, and practice (pp. 111-121). Waterloo, ON: Wilfrid Laurier University Press.

Craig, W.M., & Peters, R. DeV. (2002). The mediating role of the peer group in early adolescence. In Wilms, D. (Ed.). Vulnerable Children: Findings from the Canadian Longitudinal Study of Children and Youth (pp., 317-327). Edmonton: University of Alberta Press.

McMahon, R.J., & Peters, R. DeV. (Eds) (2002). Children of Disordered Parents. New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum.

Nelson, G., Prilleltensky, I., & Peters, R. DeV. (1999). Mental health promotion and the prevention of mental health problems. In Marshall, W. & Firestone, P. (Eds.), Abnormal Psychology. Scarborough, Ontario: Prentice Hall Canada.

B.A.H., University of New Brunswick, 1967
M.A., University of Waterloo, 1969
Ph.D., University of Waterloo, 1973

Research Interests

Interested in cognitive processes underlying perception and memory, especially the role of attention in perception and word recognition and the comprehension of text.

B.A., Memorial University, 1971
M.Sc., Memorial University, 1973
Ph.D., McGill University, 1978

Research Interests

Past research focused with humans centered on obesity, eating disorders, body image, substance abuse, cigarette addiction and fetal alcohol syndrome.

Earlier research with animals involved: exploration of factors which influence voluntary alcoholic intake, tolerance and withdrawal; the development of an animal analogue of alcoholism; investigation of the neuropharmacological basis of addiction; the effects of centrally acting drugs on voluntary alcohol intake.

Selected Publications

Puhl, R.M. and Boland, F.J. (2001). Predicting female physical attractiveness: Waist-to-hip-ratio versus thinners. Psychology Evolution and Gender.

Curran, M.C., and Boland, F.J. (2000). Are physical therapy students at an increased risk of developing the symptomatology associated with eating disorders? Physiotherapy Canada, 52, 10-16.

Boland, F.J., Duwyn, M., and Serin, R. (2000). Fetal Alcohol Syndrome: Understanding its impact. Forum on Corrections Research, 12, 16-18.

Stewart, S.H., Angelopoulos, M., Baker, J.M., and Boland, F.J. (2000). Relations between dietary restraint and patterns of alcohol use in young adult women. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, 14, 77-82.

Lalierte, M., Boland, F.J., and Leichner, P. (1999). Family Climates: Family factors specific to disturbed eating and bulimia nervosa. Journal of Clinical Psychology, 55, 1021-1040.

Boland, F.J. (1999). E ating disorders. In W. Marshall and P. Firestone (Eds.). Abnormal Psychology. Prentice Hall, Toronto. (203-229).

Boland, F.J., Henderson, K., and Baker, J. (1998). Case need domain: Substance abuse assessment review. Forum on Corrections Research, 10, 32-34.

Boland, F.J. (1996). Eating disorders and substance abuse. In S. Harrison and V. Carver (Eds.). Alcohol and drug problems: A practical guide for counsellors. ARF publications, Toronto (473-483).

Lightfoot, L.O. and Boland, F.J. (1991, revised 1992). "CHOICES": A community correctional brief treatment, relapse prevention and maintenance program. (1-158). Available from Correctional Service Canada.