Philip C. Ko, Ph.D.
phil.ko(@)vanderbilt.edu

Education

Vanderbilt University, Nashville TN, Ph.D. in Psychology, 2005-2010

Amherst College, Amherst MA, B.A. with honors in Psychology, 2001

    Advisor: Matthew Schulkind, Ph.D
    Thesis: Examining the effects of cuing with Feature Modulation Search (FMS)

Publications

Ko, P.C. & Seiffert, A.E. (2009) Updating objects in visual short-term memory is feature-selective. Memory and Cognition, 37(6), 909 - 923, doi:10.3758/MC.37.6.909.

Wilkinson, D.T., Ko, P.C., Wiriadjaja, A., Kilduff, P., McGlinchey, R. & Milberg, W.P. (2009). Unilateral damage to the right cerebral hemisphere disrupts the apprehension of whole faces and their component parts.Neuropsychologia, 47(7), 1701 - 11, doi:10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2009.02.008 .

Wilkinson, D.T., Ko, P.C., Milberg, W.P., & McGlinchey, R. (2008) Impaired search for orientation but not color in hemi-spatial neglect.Cortex, 44, 68 -78, doi:10.1016/j.cortex.2005.10.001.

Wilkinson, D.T., Ko, P.C., McGlinchey, R., & Milberg, W.P. (2005). Improvement of prosopagnosia via sub-sensory galvanic vestibular stimulation.Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, 11(7), 925-929, doi:10.1017/S1355617705051076.

Ko, P.C., Higgins, J.A., Kilduff, P.T., Milberg, W.P., & McGlinchey, R. (2005). Evidence for intact selective attention in Alzheimer's disease patients using a location priming task.Neuropsychology, 19(3), 381-389, doi:10.1037/0894-4105.19.3.381.

Abstracts & Presentations

Ko, P.C. & Seiffert, A. E. (2010). Is it better to burn out or fade away? The effect of sudden offsets in target recovery[Abstract]. Journal of Vision, 10(7):290, http://www.journalofvision.org/content/10/7/290, doi:doi:10.1167/10.7.290. Poster presented at the Vision Sciences Society Annual Meeting, Naples FL.

Ko, P. C. & Seiffert, A. E. (2008). Updating objects in visual short-term memory. Poster presented at Vision Sciences Society Annual Meeting, Naples FL.

Ko, P. C. & Seiffert, A. E. (2007). Updating feature information about objects in visual short-term memory. Poster presented atVision Sciences Society Annual Meeting, Sarasota FL.

Ko, P. C. & Seiffert, A. E. (2006). Visual memory for colors and shapes of tracked objects. Poster presented at Vision Sciences Society Annual Meeting, Sarasota FL.

Wilkinson, D. T., Ko, P. C., Wiriadjaja, A., Kilduff, P. T., McGlinchey, R., & Milberg, W. (2006). Improvement of prosopagnosia following subsensory galvanic vestibular stimulation. Poster presented atThe International Neuropsychological Society (INS) Annual Meeting, Boston MA.

Teaching Experience

2010 (Spring)         Teaching Assistant, Principles of Experimental Design (Psychology 208), Professor: Sean Polyn, Ph.D.

2009 (Fall)         Teaching Assistant, Principles of Experimental Design (Psychology 208), Professor: Isabel Gauthier, Ph.D.

2009 (Fall)         Grader, Quantitative Methods (Psychology 209), Professor: Stephen Benning, Ph.D.

2009 (Spring)         Teaching Assistant, Principles of Experimental Design (Psychology 208), Professor: Julie Lounds Taylor, Ph.D.

2008 (all year)         Teaching Assistant, Quantitative Methods (Psychology 209), Professor: Stephen Benning, Ph.D.

2007 (Fall)         Teaching Assistant, Principles of Experimental Design (Psychology 208), Professor: Thomas Palmeri, Ph.D.

2007 (Spring)         Teaching Assistant, Neuroscience (Psychology 201), Professor: Leslie Smith, Ph.D.

2006 (Fall)         Teaching Assistant, History of Neuroscience (Psychology 241), Professor: Andrew Rossi, Ph.D.

2006 (Spring)         Honors Thesis Committee for Mary Scaduto, Other members: Bruce Compas, Ph.D. (advisor), David Zald, Ph.D.

Positions and Research Experience

Harvard Medical School, Boston MA
Advisors: William Milberg, Ph.D.; Regina McGlinchey, Ph.D.; David Wilkinson, Ph.D.
2001-2005
Research Assistant, Geriatric Neuropsychology Laboratory, Geriatric Research, Education and Clinical Center (GRECC), VA Boston Healthcare System

Yale University, New Haven CT
Editor: Robert Sternberg, Ph.D.
2000
Editorial Assistant, Contemporary Psychology

Yale University, New Haven CT
Advisor: Frank Keil, Ph.D.
2000
Research Assistant, Cognition and Development Laboratory

Awards

2006 - Honorable Mention, National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship Award

1997 - 1997 Thomas J. Watson Scholarship, IBM Corporation

Memberships in Professional and Organizational Activities

Vision Sciences Society (2006 - present)