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Education

BA (SUNY at Stony Brook)
MA/PhD (University of Oregon)

Research Interests

I am a cognitive psychologist whose research, since my graduate training with Mike Posner, has been dominated by the concept of attention. Most of my time is spent doing and supervising basic cognitive and cognitive neuroscience research. Although I am a neo-Hebbian in the sense that I recognize that the brain is the organ of mind, and I value theories that seek to generate psychological processes in neural networks, mental chronometry has been my principle methodology. Recently, I have become increasingly involved in applying the methods and findings of human experimental psychology to real world problems of individuals such as those suffering from dyslexia, attention deficit/ hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), Parkinson's disease, problem gambling, and brain damage because of stroke; and to real-world issues such as counterfeit detection, eyewitness testimony, air, road and offshore safety.

Selected Publications

• Burns-Hemingway, F., Feltmate, B. B., & Klein, R. M. (2024). An Automobile’s Tail Lights: Sacrificing Safety for Playful Design?. Human factors, 00187208241237860.
• Klein, R. M., Ishigami, Y., & Murray, N. E. (2023). Slippage of the attentional beam when searching in space and in time. Cognition, 241, 105610.
  
• Klein, R. M. (2022). Thinking about attention: Successive approximations to a productive taxonomy. Cognition, 225, 105137.
• Redden, R. S., MacInnes, W. J. & Klein, R. M. (2021) Inhibition of return: An information processing theory of its natures and significance, Cortex, 135, 30-48.
• Feltmate, B. T. T., Hurst, A., J. & Klein, R. M. (2020) Effects of Fatigue on Attention & Vigilance as Measured with a Modified Attention Network Test, Experimental Brain Research, 238(11), 2507-2519
• McCormick, C. R., Redden, R. S., Lawrence, M. A., & Klein, R. M. (2018). The independence of endogenous and exogenous temporal attention. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 80(8), 1885-1891.
• Klein, R. M., Hassan, T., Wilson, G., Ishigami, Y. & Mulle, J. (2017) The AttentionTrip: A game-like tool for measuring the networks of attention. Journal of Neuroscience Methods, 289, 99–109
• Saban, W., Sekely, L., Klein, R. M. & Gabay, S. (2017) Endogenous orienting in the archer fish: From reflexive to volitional processes? Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (USA), 114(29), 7577-7581.
  
• Klein. R. M. & Saint-Aubin, J. (2016) What a simple letter detection task can tell us about reading. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 25(6) 417–424 
  
• Christie, J. J., Hilchey, M. D., Mishra, R. & Klein, R. M. (2015) Eye movements are primed toward the centre of multiple stimuli even when the interstimulus distances are too large to generate saccade averaging, Experimental Brain Research, 233:1541-1549.
• Lawrence, M. A. & Klein, R. M. (2013) Isolating exogenous and endogenous mechanisms of temporal attention. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 142(2), 560-572.
  
• Hilchey, M. D. & Klein, R. M. (2011) Are there bilingual advantages on non-linguistic interference tasks? Implications for plasticity of executive control processes, Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 18,  625-658.

Awards and Honours

• Faculty of Graduate Studies: Distinguished Service Award (May, 2000)
• D. O. Hebb Distinguished Contribution Award (2008) (Canadian Society for Brain, Behavior and Cognitive Science) 

• AV¾ãÀÖ²¿ Outstanding Graduate Advisor (2009)

• Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (inducted 2011)
• Richard C. Tees Distinguished Leadership Award (2012) (Canadian Society for Brain, Behavior and Cognitive Science)