James J. Gibson’s Ph.D. Students
(Originally compiled June 2000, partially updated June 2005; December, 2009; listed alphabetically)
Anthony G. Barrand
Dissertation: An ecological approach to binocular perception: The neglected facts of occlusion (1979)
Cornell Library Number: Thesis 1979 B268
Current position: University Professor and Professor of Anthropology, Boston University
Jacob Beck
Dissertation: Stimulus correlates of perceived illumination of a surface (1958)
Cornell Library Number: Thesis 1958 B393
Current position: Deceased
James A. Caviness
Dissertation: Visual and tactual perception of solid shape (1964)
Cornell Library Number: Thesis 1964 C382
Current position: Unknown
Hubert F. Dolezal
Dissertation: Long-term adaptation to up-down reversing the field of view: Complex changes afforded by optical invariants (1976)
Cornell Library Number: Thesis 1976 D663
Current position: Professor, Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago, IL
James M. Farber
Dissertation: The effects of angular magnification on the perception of rigid motion (1973)
Cornell Library Number: Thesis 1972 F628
Current position: Nortel?
Howard R. Flock
Dissertation: The monocular perception of surface slant (1962)
Cornell Library Number: Thesis 1962 F628
Current position: York University (Canada); retired?
Heineman, Eric G.
Dissertation: An analysis of some aspects of brightness: Constancy and contrast (1952)
Cornell Library Number: Thesis 1952 H468
Current position: Unknown
George A. Kaplan
Dissertation: Kinetic disruption of optical texture: The perception of depth at an edge (1969)
Cornell Library Number: Thesis 1968 K175
Current position: Center for Social Epidemiology and Population Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
Philip I. Kaushall
Dissertation: Perception and adaptation to surface slant (1975)
Cornell Library Number: Thesis 1975 K215
Current position: Clinical psychologist, private practice, San Diego, CA
John M. Kennedy
Dissertation: Line representation and pictorial perception (1970)
Cornell Library Number: Thesis 1971 K35
Current position: Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Toronto-Scarborough, Ontario, Canada
Anne D. Pick (JJG signed as chair; EJG signed as committee member)
Dissertation: Improvement of visual and tactual form discrimination (1964)
Cornell Library Number: Thesis 1963 P594
Current position: Professor, Institute of Child Development, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
Horace N. Reynolds
Dissertation: Temporal estimation in the perception of occluded motion (1967)
Cornell Library Number: Thesis 1967 R463
Current position: Gallaudet University, Washington, DC (retired?)
John S. Robinson (thesis unavailable and not examined)
Dissertation: An investigation of the effect of the learning of naming responses for stimuli on their later discrimination (1953)
Cornell Library Number: Thesis 1953 R662
Current position: Unknown
William Schiff
Dissertation: The perception of impending collision (1965)
Cornell Library Number: Thesis 1964 S333
Current position: Professor of Applied Psychology, New York University (retired)
Harold A. Sedgwick
Dissertation: The visible horizon: A potential source of visual information for the perception of size and distance (1973)
Cornell Library Number: Thesis 1973 S448
Current position: Professor, State University of New York College of Optometry, New York, NY
Alfred Steinschneider
Dissertation: Discrimination learning as a function of drive level and cue similarity (1956)
Cornell Library Number: Thesis 1955 S823
Current position: President Emeritus, American SIDS Institute, Bethesda, MD
Louise S. Tighe
Dissertation: Discrimination learning: Differentiation vs. mediation (1963)
Cornell Library Number: Thesis 1963 T566
Current position: Professor, College of Public Heatlh, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL (ca.2003)
Richard Warren
Dissertation: The perception of egomotion (1975)
Cornell Library Number: Thesis 1975 W292
Current position: USAF, Wright Patterson AFB, Dayton, OH
Other names associated with James and Eleanor Gibson (some per reports or suggestions of others contacted about this project)
F. Backlund (no title in PsycINFO; no record of degree completion in CU Psych Dept. files)
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Walter Carel (no title in PsycINFO; no record of degree completion in CU Psych Dept. files)
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Marvin G. Cline (neither Gibson on dissertation committee)
Dissertation: Some perceived properties of social interaction (1954)
Cornell Library Number: Thesis 1954 C641
Current position:
Frederick Dibble (no title in PsycINFO; no record of degree completion in CU Psych Dept. files)
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C.W. Johnson (possibly Charles Walter; no title recognizable in PsycINFO; no record of degree completion in CU Psych Dept. files)
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Lois C. Lawrence (no Gibson signature)
Dissertation: Auditory flutter fusion as a measure of central effectiveness (1956)
Cornell Library Number: Thesis 1956 L421
Current position:
William C. Purdy (MacLeod listed as chair; JJG listed as committee member)
Dissertation: The hypothesis of psychophysical correspondence in space perception (1958)
Cornell Library Number: Thesis 1958 P985
Current position:
Ada Ruth Dickens Waddell (MacLeod listed first on approval form; JJG listed second)
Dissertation: The influence of non-temporal
factors upon perceived duration (1952)
Cornell Library Number: Thesis 1952 W116 Current position:
Kirk E. Wheeler (neither Gibson on committee)
Dissertation: Assessment of auditory localization in the infant (1972)
Cornell Library Number: Thesis 1971 W563
Current position: Director of Clinical Operation, InteCare, Inc., Indianapolis, IN
Patricia M. Carlson
Dissertation:An exploratory study of the effects of discourse structure on comprehension (1974)
Cornell Library Number: Thesis 1974 C284
Current position: Unknown
Lorraine Bahrick (Neisser signed as chair; EJG as committee member)
Dissertation: Infants’ perceptions of properties of objects as specified by amodal information in auditory and visual events (1980)
Cornell Library Number: Thesis
Current position: Professor of Psychology, Florida Atlantic University, Miami, FL
Debra Clark (Lust signed as chair; EJG as committee member)
Dissertation: Spatial localization in infancy: Egocentric or objective? (1983)
Cornell Library Number: Thesis
Current position:
Janet Cornsweet (Masters student, per CU Psych Dept. files)
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Cornell Library Number: Thesis
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Tom N. Cornsweet (CU undergraduate, per CU Psych Dept. files)
Dissertation:A determination of the stimuli for involuntary drifts and saccadic eye movements (1955)
Current position: Professor of Cognitive Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Ophthalmology, Emeritus University of California, Irvine.
John Hay (Hochberg signed as chair; no Gibson on committee)
Dissertation: The importance of optical motions for visual space perception in man (1961)
Cornell Library Number: Thesis 1961 H412
Current position: Professor Emeritus, University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee (unconfirmed)
Jean Purdy (not able to unambiguously identify this person; possibly W. C. Purdy’s wife)
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Cornell Library Number: Thesis
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Gary Riccio (James Cutting signed as chair; EJG signed as committee member; EJG was retired, but was important influence.)
Dissertation: An ecological investigation of surface color perception (1986)
Cornell Library Number: Thesis 1986 R493
Current position: Exponent Engineering & Consulting, Natick, MA
Patrick Rooney (Neisser signed as chair; neither Gibson on committee)
Dissertation: Individual differences in imagery and their relation to visual memory (1984)
Cornell Library Number: Thesis 1984 R777
Current position:
Mark Schmuckler (Krumhansl signed as chair; EJG signed as committee member)
Dissertation: Expectation in music: Additivity of melodic and harmonic processes (1988)
Cornell Library Number: Thesis 1988 S356
Currentposition: Division of Life Sciences, University of Toronto at Scarborough
Elizabeth Spelke (Neisser signed as chair; EJG signed as committee member)
Dissertation:Intermodal exploration by four month old infants: Perception and knowledge of auditory-visual events (1978)
Cornell Library Number: Thesis 1978 S743
Current position: Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Thomas J. Tighe (neither Gibson on committee)
Dissertation: Punishment: The effects of varying its point of application (1959)
Cornell Library Number: Thesis 1959 T566
Current position: Deceased (January 2003)