Bennett Bertenthal: Cognitive Science Program: Indiana University Bloomington
Field of study
- Perception and Action,
- Action Understanding,
- Social Attention,
- Self-Regulation,
- Physiological & Neural Synchrony,
- Attention and Decision Making,
- Cybersecurity
Education
- B.A., Psychology, Brandeis University, 1971
- M.S. Developmental Psychology, University of Denver, 1976
- PhD. Developmental Psychology, University of Denver, 1978
Research interests
- For the past 40 years, my research has focused on the perception and understanding of the spatial and temporal dynamics of social and non-social actions. Special emphasis is placed on the correspondence between the observation and execution of actions. Much of this research is concerned with identifying the mechanisms necessary for prospective control and how this control develops as the individual gains more experience with selecting and controlling the relevant response. My laboratory is well prepared to address these problems for a number of reasons including: (1) significant research experience studying the development of perception and action coupling (e.g., visual control of posture, reaching, locomotion, etc.), as well as the early representation of objects and their properties; (2) familiarity and experience with a multidisciplinary set of research methods and techniques, such as eye tracking, biomechanics, signal processing, psychophysics, electrophysiology, and chronometric approaches; (3) experience with linear and nonlinear modeling approaches to complex sets of data; and (4) a large network of collaborators who support and complement the primary mission of my laboratory.
Professional Experience
- 1978 79 Postdoctoral Fellow, Brain Research Institute and Department of Pediatrics, UCLA School of Medicine
- 1979 85 Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Virginia
- 1985-91 Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Virginia
- 1988-90 Associate Editor, Developmental Psychology
- 1989-96 Director, Developmental Training Program, University of Virginia
- 1991-99 Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Virginia
- 1991-94 Member, APA Committee on Scientific Awards (Chair, 1994)
- 1991-96 Member, Human Development and Aging Study Section (Chair, 1994-96)
- 1995-97 Co-Chair, Program Committee, Society for Research in Child Development
- 1995-98 Member-at-Large, American Psychological Association, Division 7 Executive Committee
- 1996-99 Assistant Director, Directorate for Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences, National Science Foundation
- 1998-00 Member, Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), Steering Committee on Reinventing the Social Sciences
- 1998-00 Member, National Science and Technology Committee on the Future of Children
- 1998-00 Chair, Oakley Caucus (includes the directors and presidents of social science foundations and national research councils from Western Europe, Canada, and Australia)
- 1999-06 Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Chicago
- 1999-0 External Judge, Joint Infrastructure Fund (JIF), United Kingdom
- 2000-06 Professor, Committee on Computational Neuroscience, University of Chicago
- 2000-05 Member, Advisory Board, Center for Spatially Integrated Social Science, Santa Barbara
- 2000 Chair, External Review Committee for Department of Psychology, University of Maine
- 2001 Member, External Review Committee for Cognitive Science Institute, UCLA
- 2001-05 Chair, Social and Behavior Science Institutional Review Board, University of Chicago
- 2001-05 Member, Advisory Board, Cornell Institute for Research on Children
- 2003-06 Member, Steering Committee, Network for Building Translational Research in Behavioral Science
- 2004-07 Senior Fellow, Computation Institute, University of Chicago
- 2005-06 Member, Universität Bielefeld. ZIF Research Group: Embodied Communication in Humans and Machines
- 2006-07 Member, TeraGrid Users Advisory Committee, Office of Cyberinfrastructure, NSF
- 2007-10 Dean, College of Arts and Sciences, Indiana University
- 2007- James H. Rudy Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Indiana University
- 2007- Professor, Cognitive Science Program, Indiana University
- 2007- Professor, Neuroscience Program, Indiana University
- 2007-10 Member, President’s Cabinet, Indiana University
- 2007-10 Member, Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC), Arts & Sciences Deans
- 2007-10 Member, Association of American Universities (AAU), Arts & Sciences Deans
- 2008-10 Deputy Director, Indiana Clinical and Translational Science Institute