Joseph Brown
Current Positions
Professor of Psychology – University of Nebraska at Omaha
Vice-Chair – Department of Psychology – University of Nebraska at Omaha
Chair of the Graduate Programs – Department of Psychology – University of Nebraska at Omaha
Education
Ph.D. Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI. Winter 1991. Cognitive Psychology.
M.A. Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, 1987. Cognitive Psychology.
B.A. Drury College, Springfield, MO, 1984. Psychology and Literature.
Publications
Gordon, B.G., Brown, J.S., Schonfeld, T.L., Kratochvil, C. and Prentice, E. (In press). Paying research subjects. In Institutional Review and Management 2 nd Edition, Amdur, R., and Bankert, E. (eds) Jones and Bartless, Sudbury, MA.
Brown, J.S., Schonfeld, T.L. and Gordon, B. (Under review). “You may have already won…: An examination of use of lottery payments in research. Submitted to Institutional Review Board Bulletin and Review.
Gordon, B.G., Brown, J.S. Kratochvil, C. and Prentice, E. (2002). Paying research subjects. In Institutional Review and Management. Amdur, R.and Bankert, E. (Eds) Jones and Bartlett, Sudbury, MA.
Schonfeld, T., Brown, J.S. and Gordon, B. (2002). Payment in kind for research involving homeless participants. Institutional Review Board.
Reimer, J.F., Brown, J.S., & Lorsbach, T.C. (2001).Mediated inhibition effects during visual word recognition: Evidence for activational feedback. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 8 (1), 102-110.
Lorsbach, T.C., Ewing, R.H., & Brown, J.S. (1995). Source monitoring in children with learning disabilities. International Journal of Disability, Development and Education.
Carr, T.H., Dagenbach, VanWieren, Carlson, Alejano, & Brown. (1994). Acquiring general knowledge from specific episodes of experience. In Posner, M.I. (ed.), Attention & Performance XV.
Brown, J.S., & Carr, T.H. (1993). Limits on Perceptual Abstraction in Reading: Asymmetric Transfer Between Surface Forms Differing in Typicality. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 19, 1277-1296.
Lorsbach, T.C., Sodoro, J., & Brown, J.S. (1992). The dissociation of repetition priming and recognition memory in language/learning disabled children. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 54, 121-146.
Irwin, D. E., Zacks, J. L. and Brown, J. S. (1990). Visual memory and the perception of a stable visual environment. Perception & Psychophysics, 471, 35-46.
Carr, T. H., & Brown, J. S. (1990). Perceptual abstraction and interactivity in repeated oral reading: Where do things stand? Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 16, No.4, 731-738.
Carr, T. H., Brown, J. S., & Charalambous, A. (1989). Repetition and reading: Perceptual encoding mechanisms are very abstract but not very interactive. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition, 15, No. 5, 763-778.
Brown, J. S., Carr, T. H., Brown, T. L., MacDonald, J. L., Charalambous, A., & West, E. (1989). Coordinating language generation and motor control in discourse production via handwriting. In Plamondon et al (Eds.), Computer Recognition and Human Production of Handwriting. Hong Kong: World Scientific Publishing.
Irwin, D. E., Brown, J. S., & Sun, J. S. (1988). Visual masking and visual integration across saccadic eye movements. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 117, 267-287.
Brown, J. S., MacDonald, J. L, Brown, T. L., & Carr, T. H. (1988). Adapting to processing demands in discourse production: The case of handwriting. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 14, 45-59.
Irwin, D. E., & Brown, J. S. (1987). Tests of a model of informational persistence. Canadian Journal of Psychology, 14, 317-338.
Grants
National Institute of Child Health & Human Development (NICHHD) Instance Driven Practice Effects in Learning Disabled Children. $111,335. Principal Investigator-Joseph Brown. 3-year.
National Science Foundation (NSF)-Enhancing Undergraduate Research in Experimental Psychology. $27,885. Principal Investigator-Gregory Simpson, Co-Principal Investigator-Joseph Brown, Associate-Jeffrey French. 2-year.
Presentations
Reimer, J.F., Brown, J.S., & Lorsbach, T.C. (Nov, 1996). Medicated Inhibition Effects During Visual Word Recognition: Evidence for Activational Feedback. Presented at the annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Chicago, Il.
Brown, C.R., Kauffman, S., Davis, C., Iverson, A., Brown, J.S., & Langnar, A. (Oct, 1996). Growth in Children Following Intestine Transplant. Presented at the annual meeting of NASPAGAM. Denver, Co.
Brown, J.S., Lorsbach, T.C., & Cary, E.J. (Nov, 1993). Variations in Repetiion Priming Effects With Language Learning Disabled Children. Presented at the annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society. Washington D.C.
Brown, J.S., Lorsbach, T.C., & Simpson, G.B. (Nov, 1992). Individual difference in inhibition from unattended stimuli. Presented at the annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society. San Francisco, CA.
Carr, T.H., Dagenbach, VanWieren, Carlson, Alejano, & Brown. (July, 1992). Acquiring general knowledge from specific episodes of experience. Paper presented at Attention & Performance XV. Erice, Italy.
Scherer, L.L. & Brown, J.S. (November, 1990). Self justification and ambiguity effects in decision to escalate commitment. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Judgement and Human Decision Making. New Orleans, LA.
Brown, J.S., Carr T.H., Charalambous, C. & Alejano, & Barnhardt, T. M. (May, 1990). Does practice improve discourse production? Abstractionist versus instance accounts in the case of handwriting. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association. Chicago IL.
Carr, T. H., Brown, J. S., Charalambous, A. (Nov, 1988). Repetition effects in reading favor abstractionist accounts of cognition. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society. Chicago, IL.
Irwin, D. E., Brown, J. S. (Nov, 1988). Visual integration across saccadic eye movements. Paper presented at the annual meeting of Psychonomic Society. Chicago, IL.
Irwin, D. E., Brown, J. S., Sun, J. S. (May 1988). Spatiotopic integration across saccades. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Research in Vision and Opthomology.
Brown, J. S., Carr, T. H., Brown, T. L., MacDonald, J. L., Charalambous, A., & West, E. (July 1987). Coordinating language generation and motor control in discourse production via handwriting. Paper presented at the Third International Symposiums on Handwriting and Computer Applications. Montreal, Canada.
Irwin, D. E., Brown, J. S., & Sun, J. S. (May, 1987). Retinal masking and spatial coding across saccades. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Research in Vision and Opthomology.
Carr, T. H., Brown, J. S., E., & Charalambous, A. (May, 1987). Repeated reading of handwriting versus typing: How abstract are perceptual coding mechanisms? Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association. Chicago, IL.
Carr, T. H., Brown, J. S. (April, 1987). Repetition and reading: How abstract are coding mechanisms? Colloquium at McMasters University.
Brown, J. S., & Irwin, D. E. (May, 1986). On the storage of location and identity in iconic memory. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Midwestern Psychological Association. Chicago, IL.
Brown, J. S., MacDonald, J. L., Brown, T. L., & Carr, T. H. (November, 1985). Adapting to processing demands in discourse production: The case of handwriting. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society. Boston, MA.
Carr, T. H., Brown, T. L., MacDonald, J. L., Brown, J. S. (November, 1984). Handwriting connected discourse: Speed vs accuracy in skilled performance. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society. San Antonio, TX.
Courses Taught
Introduction to Psychology
Advanced Introduction to Psychology
Cognition (Undergraduate and Graduate)
Laboratory in Cognition
Sensation & Perception (Undergraduate and Graduate)
Laboratory Sensation & Perception