Melissa Schoenlein

Advisor: Karen Schloss, PhD

Keywords: Visual perception, color cognition, information visualization 

Education:
BS 2018, Psychology, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH

Research Interests:
Melissa Schoenlein’s research focuses on understanding how people form conceptual inferences from visual input. In particular, she studies how people form color-concept associations that are used to make inferences about the meanings of colors.  She also studies how using color as a grouping mechanism might enable transfer of knowledge across concepts.  Her work has implications for understanding the processes that support human visual perception and cognition, and for applying such knowledge to designing effective information visualizations.  She also aims to direct these research questions to educational settings to better understand how visual features can enhance or hinder learning in the classroom. She has also studied visual perception of 3D motion in virtual reality, detection of changes in flicker tasks as a measure of change blindness, and visual length discrimination in pigeons.

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