Member of the Geneseo faculty since 1996
Research Interests
Jeff Mounts' research examines how attention modifies visual processing. His lab utilizes psychophysical techniques to explore topics such as how attention influences the competition between objects for representation in the visual system and how attention impacts processing along the magnocellular and parvocellular visual pathways.
For more information, view Jeffrey Mounts' Curriculum Vitae.
Recent Courses Taught
- Introduction to Cognitive Psychology
- Sensation & Perception
- Advanced Research Methods: Attention & Emotion
- Attention
Curriculum Vitae
Education
Ph.D., Cognitive Psychology, Purdue University, 1995
M.A., Cognitive Psychology, Purdue University, 1993
B.A., Psychology, The College of Wooster, 1990
Selected Publications
Kirsh, S.J. & Mounts, J.R.W. (2024). Violent video game play and (de)sensitization to threat. Aggressive Behavior.
McCarley, J.S. & Mounts, J.R.W. (2017). Competitive selection and age-related changes in visual attention. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 26, 191-196.
Mounts, J.R.W. & Edwards, A.A. (2017). Attentional breadth and trade-offs in spatial and temporal acuity, Visual Cognition, 24:7-8, 422-433.
Hilimire, M.R., Mounts, J.R.W., Parks, N.A., & Corballis, P.M. (2010). Event-related potentials dissociate effects of salience and space in biased competition for visual representation. PLoS ONE 5(9): e12677.
Mounts, J. R. W. (2000). Evidence for suppressive mechanisms in attentional selection: Feature singletons produce inhibitory surrounds. Perception & Psychophysics, 62, 969-983.
Classes
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PSYC 225: Intro to Cognitive Psychology
The human organism possesses a complex system of mental abilities--including perceiving, remembering, language, problem solving, reasoning, and decision making--through which it acquires, organizes, and utilizes knowledge of the environment. Cognitive psychology is the study of this sophisticated processing system.
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PSYC 307: Sensation & Perception
An examination of the sensory and perceptual systems which enable us to see, hear, touch, taste, and smell. Drawing on both physiological and behavioral data, this course explores how physical energy is encoded by our sensory systems, and how this sensory information, in conjunction with cognitive processes, leads to our perceptual experience of the world.