Thomas J. Palmeri

This article has multiple issues. Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page. (Learn how and when to remove these template messages) This biography of a living person needs additional citations for verification. Please help by adding reliable sources. Contentious material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately from the article and its talk page, especially if potentially libelous. Find sources: "Thomas J. Palmeri" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (August 2023) (Learn how and when to remove this message) An editor has performed a search and found that sufficient sources exist to establish the subject's notability. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources: "Thomas J. Palmeri" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (August 2023) (Learn how and when to remove this message) A major contributor to this article appears to have a close connection with its subject. It may require cleanup to comply with Wikipedia's content policies, particularly neutral point of view. Please discuss further on the talk page. (August 2023) (Learn how and when to remove this message) (Learn how and when to remove this message)

Thomas Palmeri is a professor of psychology at Vanderbilt University. He serves as Chair of the Psychology department. He is co-director of the Data Science Institute at the university’s Department of Psychology.^[1] He heads the Category Laboratory (CatLab)^[2] there.^[3]

Recognition[edit]

• American Psychological Association Division of Experimental Psychology New Investigator Award, 1998.^{[citation needed]}

• Elected Fellow of the Psychonomic Society in 1998.^{[citation needed]}
• Chancellor’s Award for Research at Vanderbilt University in 2009
• Elected Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science in 2015

• Distinguished Professor at Vanderbilt, 2019

Research[edit]

The CatLab investigates visual cognition, including visual categorization, visual memory, and visual decision making.^[4] The lab studies how objects are perceived and represented by the visual system, how visual knowledge is represented and learned, and how visual decisions are made. These questions are addressed using behavioral experiments, cognitive neuroscience techniques, and computational and neural modeling.

Palmeri's contributions link experience, expertise, perception, and decision-making. He showed that the development of expertise often involves a transition from rule-based to instance-based reasoning. In other work, he found that experience with new categories can influence perceptual abilities. He studied how naming objects affects their visual memory, testing prior claims that had been made but that were inconsistent with existing memory models.^{[citation needed]}

In collaboration with Gordon Logan and Jeffrey Schall, he developed neural models to account for decision-making performance in quick response tasks and led to several publications, including in Psychological Review.

References[edit]

This biography of an American psychologist is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

• v
• t
• e