Tony Ro, PhD

Tony Ro completed his undergraduate training in the San Francisco Bay Area in the Department of Psychology at the University of California, Berkeley. While there, he worked with the late Professor Irvin Rock examining the influence of attention on visual perception. Much of this work has appeared in Inattentional Blindness (MIT Press), by Mack and Rock. He also was involved with studies investigating the dependency on orientation in shape perception.

For his graduate training, he worked with Professor Robert Rafal in the Center for Neuroscience at the University of California, Davis and at the VA Medical Center, Martinez. There, he conducted studies aimed at understanding the neural basis for attention and perception. Towards the end of his graduate training, he became interested in the links between attention, perception, and eye movements.

As a postdoctoral fellow at the University College London, Dr. Ro did research on face perception and attention as part of a Human Frontiers Science Program project.

In the fall of 1999, Tony Ro became an Assistant Professor and then in 2003 an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at Rice University. He moved to The City College of the City University of New York in the fall of 2008, where he is a Professor in the Department of Psychology and the Director of the Cognitive Neuroscience Doctoral Program. His laboratory is investigating the cognitive and neuronal architecture involved in attention, perception, and action.

PUBLICATIONS

tro(at)ccny.cuny.edu

Refereed Book Chapters and Review Articles:

For a review, see: Faculty of 1000 Biology http://www.f1000biology.com/article/id/1000638/evaluation

Rafal, R. D., Machado, L., Ro, T., & Ingle, H. (2000). Looking forward to looking: Saccade preparation and the control of midbrain visuomotor reflexes. In S. Monsell & J. Driver (Eds.), Attention & Performance XVIII. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Rock, I., Schreiber, C., & Ro, T. (1994). The dependence of two-dimensional shape perception on orientation. Perception, 23, 1409-1426.

Ro, T. (2005). Neural mechanisms for conscious and unconscious vision. In Breitmeyer, B., & Ogmen, H. (Eds.), The First Half Second. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Farnè, A., & Ro, T. (2005). Neuroimmaginare le funzioni cognitive con la stimolazione magnetica transcranica. In Castiello, U., & Bonfiglioli, C. (Eds.), Tecniche Sperimentali di Ricerca in Psicologia, 2nd Edition. Padova: Piccin Nuova Libreria.

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