Eleanor J. Gibson’s Ph.D. Students
(Originally compiled June 2000, partially updated June 2005; listed alphabetically)
Carol H. Bishop
Dissertation: Orthographic structure, word recognition, and reading (1976)
Cornell Library Number: Thesis1976 B622
Current position: Unknown
Thomas G. R. Bower
Dissertation: The parameters of performance of two perceptual tasks (1965)
Cornell Library Number: Thesis 1965 B786
Current position: Department of Behavioral & Brain Sciences, University of Texas at Dallas
Patrick A. Cabe
Dissertation: Transfer of discrimination from solid objects to pictorial representations by pigeons (1973)
Cornell Library Number: Thesis 1973 C114
Current position: Professor, Department of Psychology, The University of North Carolina at Pembroke, Pembroke, NC Retired
Dennis A. Clare
Dissertation: A study of principles of integration in the perception of written verbal items (1969)
Cornell Library Number: Thesis 1969 C591
Current position: Professor of Psychology, College of San Mateo, CA (unconfirmed)
Sandra M. Condry
Dissertation: A developmental study of processes of word derivation in elementary school children and their relation to reading (1979)
Cornell Library Number: Thesis 1979 C746
Current position: Unknown
Jean A. Dirks
Dissertation: Children’s recognition of moving people (1977)
Cornell Library Number: Thesis 1977 D599
Current position: Unknown
Ellen E. Garber
Dissertation: Development of the perception of spatial layout: The role of egocentrism (1975)
Cornell Library Number: Thesis 1975 G213
Current position: Unknown
Roberta M. Golinkoff
Dissertation: Semantic development in infants: The concept of agent (1973)
Cornell Library Number: Thesis 1973 G626
Current position: School of Education, University of Delaware
Katherine A. Loveland
Dissertation: Learning about points of view: The acquisition of reciprocal deictic terms (1980)
Cornell Library Number: Thesis 1980 L898
Current position: Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX 77054
Margaret L. McMahon Rideout
Dissertation: Development of skill in combined reading and listening (1981)
Cornell Library Number: Thesis 1981 M4788
Current position: Unknown
Cynthia J. Owsley
Dissertation: Perceiving object shape in early infancy: The role of kinetic information (1980)
Cornell Library Number: Thesis 1980 O97
Current position: Professor of Ophthalmology, School of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham
Nancy L. Rader
Dissertation: From written words to meaning: A developmental study (1976)
Cornell Library Number: Thesis 1976 R127
Current position: Professor, Department of Psychology, Ithaca College, Ithaca, NY
Richard R. Rosinski
Dissertation: The development of attention and recognition (1970)
Cornell Library Number: Thesis 1970 R821
Current position: Nortel?
Franklin H. Schapiro
Dissertation: Information extraction and filtering during perceptual learning in visual search (1970)
Cornell Library Number: Thesis 1970 S299
Current position: Unknown
Sharon T. Shepela
Dissertation: A developmental study of bimodal vigilance (1971)
Cornell Library Number: Thesis 1971 S547
Current position: Professor of Psychology, University of Hartford, CT
R. Trent Sorenson
Dissertation: Facilitation of identification by attention (1969)
Cornell Library Number: Thesis 1969 S713
Current position: Deceased
Alida (Spaans) Westman
Dissertation: A developmental study of the ability to perceive and utilize categorical structure (1971)
Cornell Library Number: Thesis 1971 S732
Current position: Professor of Psychology, Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, MI
Thomas A. Stoffregen
Dissertation: Flow structure versus retinal location in the optical control of stance (1984)
Cornell Library Number: Thesis 1984 S873
Current position: Professor, Departments of Kinesiology and Psychology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
Yvette H. Tenney
Dissertation: Tenney, Y.J. The child’s conception of organization and recall: The development of cognitive strategies (1973).
Cornell Library Number: Thesis 1973 T299
Current position: Unknown
Nancy J. VanDerveer
Dissertation: Ecological acoustics: Human perception of environmental sounds (1979)
Cornell Library Number: Thesis 1979 V2412
Current position: Unknown
Arlene S. Walker Andrews
Dissertation: The perception offacial and vocal expressions by human infants (1980)
Cornell Library Number: Thesis 1980 W178
Current position: Associate Provost, U. of Montana, Missoula, MT
Albert Yonas
Dissertation: The acquisition of information-processing strategies in a time-dependent task (1969)
Cornell Library Number: Thesis 1979 Y547
Current position: Professor,Institute of Child Development, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
EJG Emory students:
Karen Adolph
Dissertation: Perceptual-Motor Learning in Infants’ Locomotion over Slopes
Current position: Professor, Departments of Psychology and Neural Science, New York University
Marion Eppler
Dissertation: Perception and action in infancy: Object manipulation skills and detection of auditory-visual correspondence (1990)
Current position: Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC