Dale Klopfer

Associate Professor
DEPARTMENT OF PSYCHOLOGY

Bowling Green State University
Ph.D., Columbia University

PHONE

419-372-2835

Email

klopfer@bgsu.edu

OFFICE

202 Psychology

Research Interests:

   Visual cognition and spatial-working memory
   Interaction between linguistic and perceptual representations of perceptual attributes

My primary line of research seeks to understand how people process spatial information. I feel that understanding how people encode, store and operate on spatial information is fundamental to understanding shape and object perception, mental imagery, and cognitive maps. Ongoing projects include studying spatial working memory and investigating how categorical spatial relations are integrated across objects. I am also interested in the relationship between representations of colors and color words, as embodied in performance on the Stroop task, and the role of cognition in perception.

Selected Publications:

Klopfer, D.S. (1991). Apparent reversals of a rotating mask: A new demonstration of cognition in perception. Perception & Psychophysics, 49, 522-530.

Klopfer, D.S. (1996). Stroop interference and color-word similarity. Psychological Science, 7, 150-157.

Courses Taught:

   PSYC 290. Introduction to Laboratory Methods in Psychology
   PSYC 381. Sensation and Perception
   PSYC 717. Sensation and Perception