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Geoffrey Loftus (born December 24, 1945) is a Professor of Psychology at the University of Washington. He specializes in memory and attention, and his most recent research focuses on face perception and hindsight bias.
- Employment
- Awards and Honors
- Professional Memberships
- Other Professional Experience
- Publications
- Invited Addresses
Warm-up
Honeywell Corporation: computer programmer (machine-code and assembly-language), summers, 1966, 1967 Stanford University, Department of Psychology: research assistant/teaching assistant, 1967-1971 New York University: postdoctoral research fellow, 1971-72
Permanent
University of Washington: assistant,associate, full, emeritus professor, 1972-present
Visiting
Stanford University, Department of Psychology: visiting professor, summers, 1972, 1979 National Institutes of Health: National Institute on Aging: visiting scholar, autumn, 1986 MIT, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences: 1995-1996
Fellowships
University Fellow, Stanford University: 1967-70 NSF fellowship, New York University: 1971-72 Visiting Scholar, Stanford University: autumn, 1978, summers,1979, 1980
American Association for the Advancement of Science (Fellow) American Psychological Society(Fellow) Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology Psychonomic Society(Publications Board 1997-2001) Society for Computers in Psychology(President 1983-84) Society of Experimental Psychologists
Grant reviewing
NIMHBasic Behavioral Processes Study Section (1983-1987) NIMHCognition and Perception Study Section (2003-2007) Adhoc reviewer for numerous other granting agencies in the U.S. and elsewhere
Journal editorships
Editor: Memory & Cognition(1993-1997) Associate Editor, Cognitive Psychology(1975-1996; 1999-2006)
Journal editorial boards:
JEP: Learning, Memory, and Cognition(1977-1988; 2000-2002) JEP: General (1977-1990) Psychological Science (1999-2004) Psychological Review(2004-2011)
Books
Loftus, G.R., & Loftus, E.F. (1976). Human Memory:The Processing of Information.Hillsdale,NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. Loftus, G.R., & Loftus E.F. (1982). Essence ofStatistics. Monterey: Brooks-Cole. Loftus, G.R., & Loftus, E.F. (1983). Mind at Play:The Psychology of Video Games. New York:Basic Books. Loftus, G.R., & Loftus, E.F. (1987). Essence ofStatistics, 2nd Edition. New York: RandomHouse. Savageau, D. & Loftus, G.R. (1997). Places RatedAlmanac.New York: McMillan. Smith, E.E., Nolen-...
Articles and Chapters
Freund, R.D., Loftus, G.R., & Atkinson, R.C. (1969). Applications of multiprocess models for memory to continuous recognition tasks. Journal of Mathematical Psychology, 6, 576-594. (pdf) Klatzky, R.L., & Loftus, G.R. (1969). Recognition memory as influenced by number of reinforcements and type of test. Psychonomic Science, 16, 302-303. (pdf) Loftus, G.R., & Wickens, T.D. (1970). Effect of incentive on storage and retrieval processes. Journal of Experimental Psychology, 85, 141-147. (pdf) Rund...
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Geoffrey R. Loftus. University of Washington. Department of Psychology, Box 351525. Guthrie Hall, Room 222. Seattle, WA 98195-1525. email: gloftus@uw.edu.
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Geoffrey R. Loftus. Eye movements in reading and information processing. Cognitive determinants of fixation location during picture viewing. On the permanence of stored information in the human brain. Using confidence intervals for graphically based data interpretation.
Nov 6, 2017 · Geoffrey Loftus’s 45 year career with the UW psychology department will come to an end after this quarter. Within the department, he specialized in visual perception, relations between...
- Anne Chien
Feb 22, 2005 · Geoffrey Loftus studies how distance and blurriness affect human vision and memory. He testified in a murder case involving a witness who identified suspects from 450 feet.
Geoffrey Loftus is a former professor of psychology at the University of Washington, specializing in visual memory and perception. He has published several books and articles on topics such as face inversion, visual hindsight bias, and ambiguous figures.
