Dr. Cindy Bukach

Assistant Professor of Psychology
212A Richmond Hall
Office: (804) 287-6830
Fax: (804) 287-1905

Teaching:
Cognitive Neuroscience

Research:
Object recognition
Cognitive and neural mechanisms of the development and loss of perceptual expertise across the lifespan
Organization of semantic knowledge
Category specificity in cognitively intact and impaired individuals
Face recognition

Education:
Ph. D. - University of Victoria

Selected Publications:

Bukach, C.M., Bub, D.N., Gauthier, I., & Tarr, M. (2006) Perceptual expertise effects are not all or none: Spatially limited perceptual expertise for faces in a case of prosopagnosia. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, v. 18, no. 1, 48-63.

Tanaka, J.W., Kiefer, M., & Bukach, C.M. (2004) A holistic account of the own-race effect in face recognition: evidence from a cross cultural study. Cognition, v. 93, Issue 1, B1-B9.

Bukach, C.M., Bub, D.N. Masson, M.E.J., & Lindsay, D.S. (2004) Category specificity in normal episodic learning: Applications to obejct recognition and category-specific agnosia. Cognitive Psychology, v.48, Issue 1, 1-46.

Bub, D.N., Masson, M.E.J., & Bukach, C.M. (2003) Gesturing and naming: The use of functional knowledge in object identification. Psychological Science, v. 14, Issue 5, 467-472.

Skelton, R.W., Bukach, C.M., Laurence, H.E., Thomas K.G.F., & Jacobs, J.W. (2000) Humans with traumatic brain injuries show place-learning deficits in computer-generated virtual space. journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology, v. 22, Issue 2, 157-175.