James R. Brockmole, Ph.D.

EDUCATION
Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2003
Postdoctoral Fellowship, Michigan State University, 2003 - 2005

BIOGRAPHY
Dr. Brockmole principally serves as the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Baylor University. Prior to this appointment, he spent 17 years on the faculty at the University of Notre Dame where he directed the Visual Cognition Lab, taught undergraduate and graduate courses on cognition, and served in a variety of administrative roles including department chair and associate dean. In addition to these roles, he has served as Editor-In-Chief of the journal Psychonomic Bulletin & Review (2020 - 2023) as well as Associate Editor of the journals Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics (2015-2016) and Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance (2011 - 2013). He is an elected fellow of the Association for Psychological Science (APS), Psychonomic Society, and Phi Beta Kappa.

RESEARCH
Dr. Brockmole's research focuses on understanding how human observers acquire information about objects and scenes, how that information is retained in memory, and how stored knowledge about the visual world in turn guides behavior. He uses a variety of tasks and dependent measures to investigate these aspects of cognition, but a major methodology involves the recording and analysis of eye movements which reveal how visual information is processed in real time. His work has been funded by the National Science Foundation, Templeton Religion Trust, European Research Council, the United Kingdom’s Economic and Social Research Council, and others.

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