- Ph.D., Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada, 2001
Tom James
Professor, Psychological and Brain Sciences
**Not accepting graduate students for Fall 2026**
- thwjames@iu.edu
- (812) 856-0841
- PY 356
- Office Hours
Education
Areas of Study
- Cognitive neuroscience
Research Topics
- Object recognition and categorization
- Perceptual decision making
- Functional neuroimaging
- Sensory integration
- Visual, somatosensory and auditory perception
- Priming, adaptation, and perceptual learning
Research Summary
My research is involved with discovering the neural mechanisms underlying human object recognition and representation. I use a combination of experimental techniques, including functional MRI and psychophysics to explore these questions. I see object representations as multi-sensory.
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