Graduate Student, Behavioral and Brain Sciences
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James C. Bartlett
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About
I am a doctoral student in Cognition and Neuroscience and currently working on my dissertation, "Behavioral Evidence of Long Term Neural Plasticity in Response to Extensive Visual Expertise." This is an extension of my previous work with Jim Bartlett and Dan Krawczyk comparing face recognition with chess experts' parsing of chess positions. I have been working with the elite UTD Chess Program (http://www.utdallas.edu/chess/) to better understand how extensive practice and experience changes memory and perception. It is my hope that better understanding these processes will add to understanding of the more experience-based (less genetic) aspects of face recognition. As there is a continuum of face recognition ability, it is my hope that better understanding changeable aspects of recognition processes will lead to training techniques that could improve face recognition ability among those who are impaired.
Other research interests include eyewitness memory and music cognition.
