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1. Personal

Birthdate:    August 18, 1964
Phone:        (202) 994-6313
E-mail:        philbeck@gwu.edu
 

1997-0

1997

1993

1991

1986

3. Employment and Teaching Experience
 

2006-Present Associate Professor, Psychology, George Washington University, Washington, DC

2000-'06  Assistant Professor, Psychology, George Washington University, Washington, DC
 

1997-0     Postdoctoral Research Associate, Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition and Carnegie Mellon University
 

1997        Course Instructor, "Introduction to Perception", University of California, Santa Barbara
 

1995-7     Research Assistant to Dr. J. Loomis, University of California, Santa Barbara

1995         Computer Programmer (Behavioral Psychopharmacology Laboratory), Dr. A. Ettenberg, University of California, Santa Barbara
 

1993-5      Research Assistant (Blind Navigation Project) to Dr. J. Loomis, Dr. R. Klatzky, Dr. R. Golledge, University of California, Santa Barbara

1991-3      Teaching Assistant to Dr. J. Foley and Dr. J. Loomis, UC Santa Barbara
 

1990-1       Research Assistant to Dr. D. Mershon, North Carolina State University

4. Investigator-Initiated Research Grants

2008-11 Research Enhancement Award (George Washington University, Washington, DC) (3 years, $149,167): "Brain and Navigation Laboratory: Exploring the Earliest Stages of Distance Perception". Co-PI with D. Chichka and S. Livingston.

2008-9 Dilthey Award (George Washington University, Washington, DC) (1 year, $9,235): "Brief exposure and masking of real, three-dimensional scenes". Co-PI with D. Chichka.

2004-7 Research Enhancement Award (George Washington University, Washington, DC) (3 years, $131,812): "Motion Capture and Analysis Laboratory (MOCA)". Co-PI with D. Chichka, J. Danoff, J. Hahn, J. Michelson, M. Plack, B. Richmond, and M. Withers.

2005-9 NIH / National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (4 years, $726,008): "Medial temporal lobe role in human locomotor navigation" (PI)

2002-5 National Science Foundation (3 years, $104,000): "MRI: Research Infrastructure for Distributed Sensor Applications in the Home of the Future" (PI: R. Simha)

2002-3 Dilthey Competition Award (1 year, $15,162): (Co-PI with R. Lindeman) The George Washington University, Washington, DC

2001-2 University Facilitating Fund (1 year, $10,422):  The George Washington University, Washington DC

1997-0 McDonnell-Pew Program in Cognitive Neuroscience (3 years, $100,000): James S. McDonnell Foundation

1997-0 National Research Service Award (3 years, $75,000): National Institutes of Health

5. Honors and Awards

2002 Released Time for Research Award, The George Washington University

1999 Fellowship, Dartmouth Summer Institute in Cognitive Neuroscience

1996 Fellowship, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, New York

1993 Travel Fellowship, Assn. for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology; National Eye Institute

1991 Regents Fellowship, University of California, Santa Barbara

1991 Outstanding Academic Achievement in Psychology Award, North Carolina State University

6. Membership in Professional Associations

Consulting Editor

          Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition 2004-2007

Grant review panelist

Ad hoc grant reviewer

Ad hoc reviewer

          ACM Transactions on Applied Perception

          Acta Psychologica

1999 Attended Summer Institute in Cognitive Neuroscience, Dartmouth College and Medical School, Hanover, NH. Institute Directors: Dr. C. Gilbert, Dr. R. Ivry, Dr. M Gazzaniga.

1996 Attended Computational Neuroscience: Vision, short course at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, NY. Organizers: Dr. D. Heeger, Dr. E. Simoncelli, Dr. M. Shadlen.

 Publications:

1a. Published or in press

Pothier, S., Philbeck, J. W., Chichka, D., & Gajewski, D. (in press). Tachistoscopic exposure and masking of real three-dimensional scenes. Behavior Research Methods.

Philbeck, J. W., Woods, A. J., Arthur, J., & Todd, J. (in press). Progressive locomotor recalibration during blind walking. Perception & Psychophysics.

Sargent, J., Dopkins, S., Philbeck, J. W., & Arthur, J. (in press). Exploring the process of progressive disorientation. Acta Psychologica.

Arthur, J., Philbeck, J. W., Sargent, J., & Dopkins, S. (in press). Misperception of exocentric directions in auditory space. Acta Psychologica.

Sargent, J., Dopkins, S., Philbeck, J. W., & Modarrez, R. (2008). Spatial memory during progressive disorientation. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory & Cognition, 34, 602-615.

Philbeck, J. W., Sargent, J., Arthur, J. A., & Dopkins, S. (2008). Large manual pointing errors, but accurate verbal reports, for indications of target azimuth. Perception, 37, 511-534.

Arthur, J. A., Philbeck, J.W., & Chichka, D. (2007). Spatial memory enhances the precision of angular self-motion updating. Experimental Brain Research, 183, 557-568.

Philbeck, J.W., Behrmann, M., Biega, T., & Levy, L. (2006). Asymmetrical perception of body rotation after unilateral injury to human vestibular cortex. Neuropsychologia, 44, 1878-1890.

Philbeck, J. W. (2006). Instructor's Manual with Tests (for Willingham, D. B., Cognition: The Thinking Animal, 3rd ed.) Upper Saddle River: Prentice Hall.

Herman, A.I., Kaiss, K.M., Ma, R., Philbeck, J.W., Hasan, A., Dasti, H., & Depetrillo, P.B. (2005). Serotonin transporter promoter polymorphism and monoamine oxidase type A VNTR allelic variants together influence alcohol binge drinking risk in young women. American Journal of Medical Genetics Part B: Neuropsychiatric Genetics, 133B(1), 74-78.

Philbeck, J. W. & O'Leary, S. (2005). Remembered landmarks enhance the precision of path integration. Psicologica, 26, 7-24.

Isaacs, K. L., Philbeck, J. W., Barr, W. B., Devinsky, O., & Alper, K. (2004). Obsessive-compulsive symptoms in patients with temporal lobe epilepsy. Epilepsy & Behavior, 5,569-574.

Philbeck, J. W., O'Leary, S., & Lew, A. L. B. (2004). Large errors, but no depth compression, in walked indications of exocentric extent. Perception & Psychophysics, 66, 377-391.

Philbeck, J. W., Behrmann, M., Levy, L. & Potolicchio, Jr., S. J., & Caputy, A. J. (2004). Path integration deficits during linear locomotion after human medial temporal lobectomy. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 16, 510-520.

Herman, A. I., Philbeck, J. W., Vasilopoulos, N. L., & DePetrillo, P. B. (2003). Serotonin transporter promoter polymorphism and differences in alcohol consumption behaviour in a college student population. Alcohol & Alcoholism, 38, 446-449.

Philbeck, J. W. (2003). Instructor's Manual with Tests (for Willingham, D. B., Cognition: The Thinking Animal, 2nd ed.) Upper Saddle River: Prentice Hall.

Loomis, J. M., Philbeck, J. W., & Zahorik, P. (2002) Dissociation between location and shape in visual space. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 28, 1202-1212.

Philbeck, J. W., & Mershon, D. H.  (2002).  Knowledge about typical source output influences perceived auditory distance (L). Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 111, 1980-1983.

Behrmann, M., & Philbeck, J. W.  (2001).  Spatial representation and updating:  Evidence from neuropsychological investigations.  In D. R. Montello (Ed.), Spatial information theory:  Foundations of geographic information science, pp. 352-370.  Proceedings of COSIT '01. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2205.  Berlin:  Springer-Verlag.

Philbeck, J. W., Behrmann, M., & Loomis, J. M.  (2001).  Updating of locations during whole-body rotations in patients with hemispatial neglect. Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience, 1, 330-343.

Philbeck, J. W., Klatzky, R. K., Behrmann, M., Loomis, J. M., & Goodridge, J. (2001). Active control facilitates non-visual navigation. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 27, 141-153.

Philbeck, J. W., Behrmann, M., Black, S. E., & Ebert, P. (2000). Intact spatial updating during locomotion after right posterior parietal lesions. Neuropsychologia, 38, 950-963.

Philbeck, J. W. (2000). Visually directed walking to briefly glimpsed targets is not biased toward fixation location. Perception, 29, 259-272.

Loomis, J. M., Klatzky, R. L., Golledge, R. G., & Philbeck, J. W. (1999). Human navigation by path integration. In R. G. Golledge (Ed.), Wayfinding: Cognitive mapping and spatial behavior. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins Press.

Klatzky, R. K., Beall, A. C., Loomis, J. M., Golledge, R., & Philbeck, J. W. (1999). Human navigation ability: Tests of the encoding-error model of path integration. Spatial Cognition and Computation, 1, 31-65.

Loomis, J. M., & Philbeck, J. W. (1999). Is the anisotropy of perceived 3-D shape invariant across scale? Perception & Psychophysics, 61, 397-402.

Loomis, J. M., Klatzky, R. K., Philbeck, J. W., & Golledge, R. (1998). Assessing auditory distance perception using perceptually directed action. Perception & Psychophysics, 60, 966-980.

Philbeck, J. W., Loomis, J. M., & Beall, A. C. (1997). Visually perceived location is an invariant in the control of action. Perception & Psychophysics, 59, 601-612.

Philbeck, J. W., & Loomis, J. M. (1997). A comparison of two indicators of perceived egocentric distance under full-cue and reduced-cue conditions. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 23, 72-85.

Loomis, J. M., Da Silva, J. A., Philbeck, J. W., & Fukusima, S. S. (1996). Visual perception of location and distance. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 5, 72-77.

Beall, A. C., Loomis, J. M., Philbeck, J. W., & Fikes, T. J. (1995). Absolute motion parallax weakly determines visual scale in real and virtual environments. Proceedings of Conference on Human Vision, Visual Processing, and Digital Display, 2411, 288-297. Bellingham, WA: Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers.
 
 

1b. Unpublished Manuscripts
 
Loomis, J.M., & Philbeck, J. W. (submitted). Measuring perception with spatial updating and action. Invited book chapter (refereed), to appear in: Embodiment, Ego-Space, and Action: The 34th Carnegie Symposium on Cognition. R. L. Klatzky, M. Berhmann, B. MacWhinney, Eds.

Philbeck, J. W., Behrmann, M., & Loomis, J. M. (Under revision.) The consistency of absolute distance and size-in-depth perception in visual form agnosia.

C. CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
 

Woods, A. J. & Philbeck, J. W. (2008). Comparison of rope-pulling and blindwalking as measures of perceived egocentric distance. Annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, Naples, FL, May 12, 2008.

Gajewski, D. A., Philbeck, J. W., Chichka, D. F., & Potheir, S. F. (2008). Exploring the time course of egocentric distance perception with visual masking of a real-word environment. Annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, Naples, FL, May 12, 2008.

Yamamoto, N., & Philbeck, J. W. (2008). Little evidence of perceptual depth compression when indicating extents by imagined walking. Annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, Naples, FL, May 14, 2008.

Woods, A. J. & Philbeck, J. W. (2007) Does effort influence verbal reports of egocentric distance? Annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, Sarasota, FL, May 6, 2007.

Philbeck, J. W. & Woods, A. J. (2007) Does effort influence verbal reports of shape? Annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, Sarasota, FL, May 6, 2007.

Philbeck, J. W. (2005). Rapid recalibration of locomotion during non-visual walking. Annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, Sarasota, FL, May, 2005.

Philbeck, J. W. & O'Leary, S. (2004). Attention during treadmill adaptation does not influence marching-in-place aftereffect. Annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, Sarasota, FL, May, 2004.

Philbeck, J. W., O'Leary, S., & Lew, A. L. B. (2003). Path integration precision is doubled by the imagined proximity of previewed landmarks. Annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, Sarasota, FL, May, 2003.

Philbeck, J. W. (2002). More errors in an action-based response: Blindfolded walking and the horizontal-vertical illusion. Annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, Sarasota, FL, May, 2002.

Philbeck, J. W., Behrmann, M., Brown, S., Potolicchio, S. J., Levy, L., Richter, K., & Hall, J. (2002). Human path integration deficits after right medial temporal lobectomy. Annual meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, CA, April, 2002.

Hall, J. A., & Philbeck, J. W.  (2001).  Do we update locations more poorly when they pass behind us?  First annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, Sarasota, FL, May, 2001.

Philbeck, J. W., & Loomis, J. (2000). Large errors in a visually directed walking task. Annual meeting of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, Ft. Lauderdale, FL, May, 2000.

Philbeck, J. W., Behrmann, M., & Loomis, J. (1999). Spatial updating during self-rotations after right posterior parietal lesions. Annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Los Angeles, CA, November.

Philbeck, J. W. (1999). Walking without vision reflects distortions in perceived depth. Annual meeting of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, Ft. Lauderdale, FL, May, 1999.

Philbeck, J. W. & Behrmann, M. (1998). Parietal lobe role in monitoring locomotion-generated proprioception. Annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Dallax, TX, November, 1998.

Philbeck, J. W., & Loomis, J. M. (1998). Motoric reproduction of distant extents is accurate even when initiated from the viewing point. Annual meeting of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, Ft. Lauderdale, FL, May, 1998.

Philbeck, J. W., & Loomis, J. M. (1997). Accurate blind walking to briefly glimpsed targets. Annual meeting of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, Ft. Lauderdale, FL, May, 1997.

Subbiah, I., Loomis, J. M., & Philbeck, J. W. (1996). Grasping the vertical-horizontal illusion: Control by endpoints or by extent? Annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Chicago, IL, November, 1996.

Loomis, J.M., & Philbeck, J.W. Is visual space separable into shape and scale? (1996). Annual meeting of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, Ft. Lauderdale, FL, April, 1996.

Loomis, J. M., Beall, A. C., Klatzky, R. K., Golledge, R., & Philbeck, J. W. (1995). Evaluation of the sensory inputs to path integration. Annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Los Angeles, CA, November, 1995.

Philbeck, J. W., Loomis, J. M., & Beall, A. C. (1995). Measurement of visually perceived egocentric distance under reduced- and full-cue conditions. Annual meeting of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, Fort Lauderdale, FL, May, 1995.

Beall, A. C., Loomis, J. M., & Philbeck, J. W. (1994). Absolute motion parallax weakly determines visual scale. Annual meeting of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, Sarasota, FL, May, 1994.

Loomis, J. M., & Philbeck, J. W. (1994). Distortion of visual space under full cues is not scale invariant. Annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, St. Louis, MO, November, 11-13, 1994.

Klatzky, R. L., Loomis, J. M., Golledge, R., & Philbeck, J. W. (1993). Spatial perception of auditory and visual targets. Annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Washington, DC, November, 1993.

Loomis, J. M., & Philbeck, J. W. (1993). Comparison of two indicators of perceived distance under full- and reduced-cue conditions. Annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Washington, DC, November, 1993.

Philbeck, J. W., & Loomis, J. M. (1993). Open-loop walking is similar to verbal report of perceived distance under reduced cue conditions. Annual meeting of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, Sarasota, FL, May, 1993.

Mershon, D. H., & Philbeck, J. W. (1991). Auditory perceived distance of familiar speech sounds. Annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, November, 1991.