Dr. Karin JamesAssociate Professor
khjames [at] indiana.edu office: PY 368 | (812)856-0659 lab: Cognition and Action Neuroimaging Lab
Action and perception interactions during learning; development of object recognition; neural correlates of music processing; reading acquisition |
Educational Background
- 2001-03 - Post Doctoral Fellow, Vanderbilt University
- 2001 - Ph.D., Psychology, University of Western Ontario
- 1998 - MA, Psychology, University of Western Ontario
- 1996 - BS, Psychology, University of Toronto
- 1991 - BA, History, University of Toronto
Areas of Study
- Cognitive Neuroscience
- Brain and Behavior
- Developmental Psychology
Research Topics
- Action and perception interactions during learning
- Development of object recognition
- Neural correlates of music processing
- Reading acquisition
Research Summary:
Dr. James' research program is devoted to studying the neural correlates of learning in humans. In general, how motor experience can influence visual recognition in both adults and children, and how the brain changes in response to specific experiences. These interests have led Dr. James research program into the study of reading acquisition in preschool children and to the development of the "Developmental Neuroimaging Project", a project that involves measuring brain activity using fMRI of 3-5 year old children. Dr James also uses fMRI to study the neural correlates of expertise processing. Currently this aspect of her research involves studying music processing, both auditory and visual, in musicians and novices.
Professional Organizations and Memberships
2007-present: Society for Research in Child Development
2004-present: Cognitive Neuroscience Society
2000-present: Vision Sciences Society
1998-2000: Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology
1998-1999: Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour and Cognitive Science
Representative Publications
Peer Reviewed Journal Articles
James, KH & Gauthier, I (under revision). When writing impairs reading: Letter perception's susceptibility to motor interference.
James, KH. (under revision). Sensori-motor experience leads to changes in visual processing in the developing brain.
James, KH & Atwood, TP (2008). The role of sensori-motor learning in the perception of letter-like forms: tracking the causes of neural specialization for letters. Cognitive Neuropsychology.
Wong, A C-N, Jobard, G., James, KH, James, TW & Gauthier, I (2008). Expertise with characters in alphabetic and nonalphabetic writing systems engage overlapping occipito-temporal areas. Cognitive Neuropsychology.
in press - Foss, A. H, Altschuler, E.L. & James, K.H. Neural correlates of the Pythagorean ratio rules. Neuroreport.
2006 - James, K.H. & Gauthier, I. Letter processing automatically recruits a sensory-motor brain network. Neuropsychologia, 44, 2937-2949.
2005 - James, K.H., James, T.W., Jobard, G., Wong, C-N., & Gauthier, I. Letter processing in the visual system: Different activation patterns for single letters and strings. Cognitive, Affective and Behavioral Neuroscience, 5(4), 452-466 .
2002 - James, K.H., Humphrey, G.K., Vilis, T, Baddour, R., Corrie, B. & Goodale, M.A. Learning three-dimensional object structure: A virtual reality study. Behavioral Research Methods, Instruments and Computers,34:3, 383-390.
2001 - James, K.H., Humphrey, G.K. & Goodale, M.A. Manipulating and Recognizing Virtual Objects: Where the Action Is. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology, 55:2., 111-120.
1999 - Harman, K.L., Humphrey, G.K. & Goodale, M.A. Active manual control of object views facilitates visual recognition. Current Biology, 9:22. 1315-1318.
1999 - Harman, K.L. & Humphrey, G.K. Encoding ‘regular’ and ‘random’ sequences of views of novel, three-dimensional objects. Perception,28, 601-615.
Book Chapters
in press - James, K.H., Wong, C-N, Jobard, G. The case for letter expertise. To appear in: Perceptual Expertise: Bridging Brain and Behavior, Gauthier, I, Bub, D. & Tarr, M.J. (Eds.) Oxford University Press.
2005 - James, T.W., Humphrey, G.K., James, K.H. & Goodale, M.A. (2005) Do visual and tactile object representations share the same neural substrate? M.A. Heller and S. Ballesteros (Eds.), Touch and blindness: psychology and neuroscience. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
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