Dr. Kathleen Chen
Professor of Psychology
Rochester Institute of Technology
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Office: 01-3378
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Research Interests : Perception, Learning, Skill acquisition and transfer.
 
Curriculum Vita
 
 Education
 
 B.A. (Summa Cum Laude) in Philosophy and Psychology,
   University of Rangoon, Burma.
 
  M.A. in Experimental Psychology, Bryn Mawr College, PA.
 
 Ph.D.  Major: Experimental Psychology,
   Minor: Philosophy of Science,
   Penn. State University, University Park, PA
  
 NSF Summer Fellowship, 1963.
 
 Professional Experience
 
 1957-1960 Director, Office of Research, University of Rangoon.
 
 1960-1965 Assistant Professor, Muskingum College, OH.
 
 1968 Spring Part-time teaching, SUNY College, Buffalo.
 
 1971-1980 Assistant and Associate Professor, Rochester 
   Institute of Technology.
 
 1980-Present Professor, RIT.
 
 1991-Present Professor and Chairperson, Psychology Department, RIT.
 
 Courses taught at RIT
 
 Undergraduate Courses: Psychology of Perception, Adolescent 
 Psychology, Learning and Memory, Human Growth and Development, 
 Childhood and Adolescent Psychology, Psychology of Motivation, 
 Psychology of Personality, Introduction to Psychology.
 
 Graduate Courses: Cognitive Psychology, Developmental 
 Psychology, Psychology of Learning, Educational Psychology, Human 
 Learning.
 
 Doctoral Committees: I served on committees for two Ph.D. candidates in the Center of
 Imaging Science at RIT: Karen Braum, 1996, and Fritz Ebner, 1998.
 
 Curriculum Development: Wrote two proposals for the Psychology Department:
 (1) The M.S. School Psychology Program, Implemented 1986
 (2) B.S. Psychology Program, Implemented 1997.
 
 Grants, Awards and Honors
 
 1. Government of Burma Scholarship, 1953-1957.
 
 2. National Science Foundation Fellowship, Summer Institute for 
  Contemporary Scientific Psychology at Beloit College, Wisconsin, 1963.
 3. NSF Institutional Research Grant, 1972.
 
 4. NSF Instructional Scientific Equipment Grant, 1977-79.
 
 5. Listed in An Index to Science Course Development, 1978-79.
 
 6. Member of National Institute of Health Public Advisory Committee.
 
 7. RIT Liberal Arts College Research Fund Awards, 1980-81, 1981-
 82, 1983-84, 1986-87, 1987-88, 1988-89, 1989-90, 1990-91, 1991-92, 
 1992-93, 1993-94, 1994-95. 1995-96, 1996-97.
 
 8. Liberal Arts Faculty Development Grant for developing computer programs
 for students' research, 1998.
 
  9. Institutional Travel Fund for eight students to attend the Eastern Psychological
 Association in Baltimore, March 2000. Four of these students presented posters,
 which were the results of collaboration with psychology faculty.
  
 Scholarly Activities
 
 A. Reviewer
 
 Reviewed the manuscript of Dr. Paul Pedersen, Counseling and 
 Guidance, School of Education, Syracuse University, on Chinese 
 Metaphors, 1982.
 
 Served as a reviewer of paper selection for the Convention 
 Program of the 57th Annual Meeting, Eastern Psychological 
 Association, 1986.
 
 B. Publications
 
 Extremity of judgment of the multicategory scale of response, 
 American Psychologist, 1955, 10 (8), 436-437. (coauthor J.K. Adams)
 
 Funded by the Asia Foundation, 1857-1960, constructed and 
 adapted the following psychological tests for the Burmese 
 population: Raven's Progressive Matrices, Burmese Vocabulary Test, 
 English Vocabulary Test, Numerical Reasoning and Aptitude Tests. 
 (coauthors R. Warnkens and staff of Rangoon University)
 
  Pronounceability in verbal learning of the deaf, Journal of 
 Psychology, 1973, 84, 89-95.
 
 My research results related to the deaf were published in 
 different issues of National Technical Institute for the Deaf Quarterly Report.
 
 Free recall learning of deaf and hearing subjects, Journal of 
 General Psychology, 1974, 91,155-156.
 
 Acoustic image in visual detection of deaf and hearing college 
 students, Journal of General Psychology, 1976, 94, 235-246.
 
 Personality correlates of semantic habits in the deaf, Journal 
 of Psychology, 1977, 95, 305-307. (coauthor A. Monsalud)
 
 Extremity of semantic differential ratings in deaf and hearing 
 subjects, Journal of General Psychology, 1977, 96, 231-236. 
 
 Semantic habits and attitudes of black college students, 
 Psychological Reports, 1978, 42, 963-969.
 
 Modes of word usage and perceptions of prison inmates, 
 Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1980, 51, 915-918.
 
 Reaction time of reflected plane forms, Journal of General 
 Psychology, 1981, 105, 261-264.
 
 A transformational analysis of form recognition under plane 
 isometries, Journal of Mathematical Psychology, 1982, 26 (3), 237-
 251. (coauthor M. Chen)
 
 Latencies of shape motions of hearing and deaf subjects, 
  Proceedings and Abstracts of the Annual Meeting of the Eastern 
 Association, 1985, 56, 3.
 
 Similarity transformations of random plane forms, Proceedings 
 and Abstracts of the Annual Meeting of the Eastern Association, 
 1986, 57, 14.
 
 Plane form similarity transformations of hearing and deaf 
 subjects, Proceedings and Abstracts of the Annual Meeting of the 
 Eastern Association, 1987, 58, 42.
 
 A group model of form recognition under plane similarity 
 transformations, Journal of Mathematical Psychology, 1987, 31 (4), 
 321-337. (coauthor M. Chen)
 
 Mental simulation of isometric transformations in space, 
 Proceedings and Abstracts of the Annual Meeting of the Eastern 
 Psychological Association, 1988, 59, 40.
 
 Response latencies in a word association test: A new measuring 
 method and its results, Proceedings and Abstracts of the Annual 
 Meeting of Eastern Psychological Association, 1989, 60, 64.
 
 Recognition of altered shapes under similarity 
 transformations, Proceedings and Abstracts of the Annual Meeting of 
 Eastern Psychological Association, 1990, 61.
 
 Hemispheric task specialization of normal and reversed 
 letters, Proceedings and Abstracts of the Annual Meeting of Eastern 
 Psychological Association, 1990, 61. (coauthor R. Harnish)
 
 Presence/absence of an observer in a word association test, 
 Journal of Personality Assessment, 1990, 55 (1 & 2), 41-51, 
 (coauthor M. Isaacs).
 
  Recognition of altered shapes by hearing and hearing-impaired 
 subjects, Journal of General Psychology, 1990, 117 (1), 27-37. 
 (coauthor M. Chen)
 
 Complementary colors' effect on closure speed. Perceptual 
 Motor Skills, 1991, 72, 698.
 
 A group theoretical analysis of mental space isometries in 
 form recognition. Journal of Mathematical Psychology, 1993, 37, 
 401-420 (co-author M. Chen).
 
 The perception of 3-dimensional affine transformations. 
 Proceedings and Abstracts of the Annual Meeting of the Eastern 
 Psychological Association, 1994, 52.
 
 Planar forms in affine transformation. Proceedings and 
 Abstracts of the Annual Meeting of the Eastern Psychological 
 Association, 1995, 66, 29.
 
 WISC-R diagnosis using a neural network simulation. Co-author 
 with my student Tim Farnum. Proceedings and Abstracts of the 
 Annual Meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association, 1995, 66, 7.
 
 Plane projective transformations. Proceedings and Abstracts 
 of the Annual Meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association, 
  1996, 67, 38.
 
 A mental space similarity group model of perceptual constancy, Journal of Mathematical
 Psychology, 1999, 43, 410-432.
 
 Requests for reprints of my publications came from different 
  states in the U.S.A. and different countries.
 
 C. Paper Presentations
 
 Presented papers at each of the Eastern Psychological 
 Association 44th, 45th, 46th, 48th, 49th, 50th, 51st (two papers), 
  52nd, 53rd, 54th, 55th, 56th, 57th, 58th, 59th, 60th, 61st, and 
 62nd, 64th, 65th, 66th, 67th, 68th, 69th, 70th, 71st, 73rd , 74th and 75th Annual 
 Meetings held in 1973, 1974, 1975, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 
 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990 (two papers) 1991,
 1993 (2 papers), 1994, 1995 (2 papers), 1996, 1997,1998, 1999, 2001, 
 2003 (paper and chair of Perception Session)2004, 2005
 
 Verbal learning in hearing and hearing-impaired students, the 
 2nd Annual National Technical Institute for the Deaf Mini-
 Convention, Rochester, NY, May 5, 1977.
 
 Mathematical models of form recognition in orientational 
 changes, the First Joint Meeting of Psychometric Society and the 
 Society for Mathematical Psychology, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, 
 August 26, 1978. (coauthor M. Chen).
 
 Panel member of The Perception of Pictures Conference, October 
 7 & 8, 1983, Rochester Institute of Technology.
 
 Mathematical applications of perceptual processes, the Spring 
 Meeting of the Mathematical Association of America Seaway Section, 
 Geneva, NY, April 25, 1987. (coauthor M. Chen ).
 
 A group theoretic model of perceptual constancy, the 20th 
 Annual Meeting of the Society for Mathematical Psychology, 
 University of California, Berkeley, CA, August 8, 1987. (coauthor M. Chen)
 
 Women in Asia: Problems and prospects, panelist, the New York 
 Conference on Asian Studies, SUNY College, Brockport, October 2-3,1987.
 
 Space isometry groups in perceptual constancy, the 21st Annual 
 Mathematical Psychology Meeting, Northwestern University, IL, July 
 29, 1988. (coauthor M. Chen)
 
 An application of group theory to perception, the Fall Meeting 
 of Mathematical Association of America, Seaway Section, Syracuse 
 University, Syracuse, NY, November 12, 1988. (coauthor M. Chen)
 
 Plane similarity groups and perceptual constancies, the 22nd 
 Annual Meeting of the Society for Mathematical Psychology Meeting, 
 university of California, Irvine, CA, August 5, 1989. (coauthor M. 
 Chen)
 
 Geometric groups and mental transformations, the Fall Meeting 
 of Mathematical Association of America, Seaway Section, Utica, NY, 
 November 11, 1989. (coauthor M. Chen)
 
 Officially invited by the Organization and Program Committee 
 of the International Symposium on Mnemology and Bionic Artificial 
 Intelligence to present two papers on the Human Memory Modeling and 
 Simulation at Stara Zagora, Bulgaria in October, 1990.
 
 Similarity transformation groups on a hyperbolic plane and 
 shape constancy, the 23rd Annual Meeting of the Society for 
 Mathematical Psychology Meeting, University of Toronto, Toronto, 
 Canada, August 17, 1990. (coauthor M. Chen)
 
 Transformation groups on a hyperbolic plane and applications, 
 the Fall Meeting of Mathematical Association of America, Seaway 
 Section, SUNY Oswego, Oswego, NY, November 3, 1990. (coauthor: M. 
 Chen)
 
 The golden section and its application to psychology, the Fall 
 Meeting of Mathematical Association of America, Seaway Section, 
 SUNY Fredonia, Fredonia, NY, November 2, 1991. (coauthor: M. Chen)
 
 Enhancing teaching through classroom demonstrations, a poster 
 presentation at the Fourteenth Annual National Institute on the 
 Teaching of Psychology, St. Petersburg, FL, January, 1992.
 
 The golden section and experimental ethics and aesthetics, 
 Twenty-Fifth Annual Mathematical Psychology Meeting, Stanford 
 University, Palo Alton, CA., August 23, 1992. (co-author: M. Chen)
 
 A space similarity group model for form perception, 
 Mathematical Association of America, Seaway Section fall meeting, 
 Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, November14, 1992.
 
 Space affine transformation groups and cognition, the fall 
 meeting of Mathematical Association of America, Onondaga Community 
 College, November 5-6, 1993.
 
 A group model for perceptual constancy at the Twenty-Seventh 
 Annual mathematical Psychology Meeting, Seattle, Washington, August 
 11-14, 1994.
 
 A group model of plane affine transformation and perception at 
  the Annual Meeting of the Society for Mathematical Psychology, 
 University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC. August, 1996.
 
 Patterns on a strip, the 33rd Annual Meeting of the Society for Mathematical
 Psychology, Queens University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada, August 11, 2000.
 
 Cognitive processes in 3D form perception at the 5th Annual Perception and
 Attention Mini-Conference, Boston, March 9, 2002.
 
 D. Professional Membership
  
 Sigma Xi, National Research Honorary Society.
 Society for Mathematical Psychology
 Eastern Psychological Association
 American Psychological Association
 American Psychological Society
 Council for Undergraduate Research
 American Psychological Association: Division 21 Applied Experimental and Engineering.
 Human Factors and Ergonomics Society
 
 E. Professional Service
 
 Served as a consultant to Attorney Timothy Dejohn, Fall, 1987.
 
 Appeared in Rochester City Court as an expert in eye witness 
 testimony for Attorney Timothy Dejohn, re: People v. Frank Stokes, 
 September 8, 1988. 
 
 Served as a consultant to Attorney James Hinman, April 3,1989.
 
 Served as an expert in eye witness testimony for Attorney John 
 Condon, re: People v. Beaufort Cutner, in Erie County Court, 
 Buffalo, NY, October 3, 1989. 
 
 Served as an expert in eye witness testimony for Attorney 
 Allan Bozer re: People v. Thomas Ellis, Erie County Court, Buffalo, 
 NY, February 27, 1990.
 
 Admitted as expert in eye witness testimony at King's County 
 Supreme Court in Brooklyn, NY for Attorneys John Madden and Andrew 
 Fine re: People v. Hernandez, November 1990.
 
  Assisted Attorney Donald M. Thompson, re: People v. Earnest 
 Florack, June, 1994.
 
 Appeared in the United States District Court for the Western 
 District of New York as an expert in eye-witness testimony for 
 attorney William C. Dedes. May 1, 1996.