4 Demense Court
Seaforde
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Telephone: 02844811383
Email: d.ross@qub.ac.uk
Deborah Ross
Experience
2000 - 2003
School of Psychology
Queens University Belfast
Research Associate
My duties included:
 Assisting in setting-up the experimental room.
 Recruiting and training observers.
 Preparation of experimental stimuli.
 Collection and analysis of the data.
 Setting-up and maintaining databases.
 Assisting in the preparation of manuscripts for publication.
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2000 - 2004
Associate Lecturer
Open University
Cognitive Psychology
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I have three years experience working as an Associate Lecturer with the
Open University team, delivering the D309 Cognitive Psychology course.
The course requires that the students submit 4 experimental projects, the
methodologies employed in these projects entail:
- Introspection.
- The experimental method.
- Computer modelling.
(An awareness of cognitive neuropsychology is also required.)
The students also submit 4 essays for the remaining part of their coursework.
As an open University Associated Lecturer I am responsible for:
 The preparation and the delivery of the material for the course (see below).
 Acting as a personal tutor for 50 students.
 Marking and feedback of student’s reports and essays.
 Preparation and delivery of Day Schools (revision).
 Feedback to Course coordinator regarding the development of future
courses. The course was recently revised and input from associate lecturers
was considered in this matter.
In keeping with the structure of the course I prepare and deliver lectures on:
 Language understanding:
- Language and knowledge.
- Language processes and models.
- Anaphoric reference.
 Perception and representation:
- Conceptual categories.
- Object recognition.
- Perceiving and recognizing faces.
 Problem solving:
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- Introduction to problem solving.
- Analogical problem solving and the development of expertise.
- The experimental analysis of analogical reasoning.
Memory:
- Everyday memory.
- The experimental approach to memory systems.
- The computer modelling approach to memory systems.
- Parallel Distributed Processing and its application in models of memory.
2004 – 2005
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Associate Lecturer
E.A.I.F.H.E.
Delivering the A Level course to post secondary students.
2000-2005 Queen’s University Belfast.
Education
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PhD Dissertation topic: Lightness Perception.
Viva to be held 11/02/05.
1997 – 2000 Queen’s University Belfast
 Upper 2nd Class Honours Degree BSc Psychology
1996 – 1997 E.D.I.F.H.E.
 A Level Psychology (B)
 A Level Politics (B)
 A Level General Studies (B)
Publications
Journal articles
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Logvinenko A. D. & Ross D. A. (2004) Adelson's tile and snake illusions: Helmholtzian type of
simultaneous lightness contrast. Spatial Vision (in press).
Logvinenko A. D., Adelson E. H., Ross D. A., & Somers D. (2004) Straightness as a cue for
luminance edge classification. Perception & Psychophysics (in press).
Logvinenko A. D. & Ross D. A. (2002) Are simultaneous lightness contrast and lightness
constancy produced by the same mechanism? (Submitted to Perception & Psychophysics).
Logvinenko A. D., Kane J., & Ross D. A. (2002) Is lightness induction a pictorial illusion?
Perception 31, 73-82.
In supplements
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Logvinenko AD, Ross D.A. Bi-dimensionality of achromatic colours as derived from multidimensional scaling Perception 32: 40-41 Suppl. S 2003
Logvinenko AD, Ross DA. Two types of simultaneous lightness contrast Perception 31: 6-6,
Suppl. S 2002.
D. A. Ross, A D Logvinenko. Individual differences in lightness perception. Perception 31: 183183, Suppl. S 2002.
D A Ross, A D Logvinenko. Luminance X-junction giving rise to an apparent transparency is not
sufficient for Adelson's lightness illusion. Perception 30: 4-4, Suppl. S 2001.