Dr. Robert H. Cormack

Professor, Psychology Department

New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology


Psychology 205 Psychology 311

Address:
Dr. Robert H. Cormack
Department of Psychology
New Mexico Tech
801 Leroy Place
Socorro, NM 87801
Office: Cramer 105
Phone: (575) 835-5439
Email: rcormack@nmt.edu
Member:
AAAS
Association for Psychological Science
Committee for Skeptical Inquiry
Council Against Health Fraud
Psychonomic Society
Sigma Xi


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Education

Ph.D. 1962 University of Cincinnati Experimental Psychology
M.A. 1956 University of Cincinnati General Psychology
A.B. 1955 University of Cincinnati Psychology

Experience

2005 - Present New Mexico Tech Professor of Psychology
1971 - 2005 New Mexico Tech Professor & Chairman, Psychology & Education
1986 - 1987 New Mexico Tech Acting Dean of Graduate Studies
Summer 1986 Vanderbilt University Visiting Professor
Summer 1981 Vanderbilt University Visiting Professor
Summer 1978 Northwestern University Visiting Professor
Fall 1978 Vanderbilt University Visiting Scholar
Summer 1971 National Bureau of Standards On-Site Human Factors Contract
1970 - 1978 New Mexico Tech Dean of Students
1968 - 1971 New Mexico Tech Professor of Psychology
Summer 1968 Vanderbilt University Visiting Professor
1966 - 1968 Armstrong State College Professor & Chairman, Psychology & Sociology
1965 - 1966 Alfred University Assoc. Professor & Chairman, Psychology
1964 - 1965 Alfred University Associate Professor, Psychology
1962 - 1964 Alfred University Assistant Professor, Psychology
1961 - 1962 University of Cincinnati Graduate Assist. & Lecturer
1961 - 1962 Longview State Hospital Research Psychologist
1960 - 1961 University of Cincinnati USPH Pre-doctoral Fellow
1958 - 1960 University of Cincinnati Research Assistant
1956 - 1958 W-P AFB, Aero-Medical Lab Research Psychologist, 1st Lt., USAF

Publications

Kristofferson, A. & Cormack, R. Some effects of Quiactin on normal behavior. Clinical Research, 1958, 6, 416.

Kristofferson, A. & Cormack, R. Some effects of Oxanimide on normal behavior. In Uhr, L. & Miller, J.G. (eds), Drugs and Behavior. New York: Wiley, 1960, 330-331.

Kristofferson, A. & Cormack, R. Preliminary results concerning the galvanic skin response as an indicator of drug effects. In Uhr, L. & Miller, J.G. (eds), Drugs and Behavior. New York: Wiley, 1960, 405-408.

Fox, R. & Cormack, R. Response to change of pattern and depth in the rat. Psychological Reports, 1962, 11, 299-302.

Cormack, R. Ocular tracking as a measure of autokinetic movement. Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1962, 17, 223-226.

Cormack, R. & Arger, R. Necker cube perspective dominance as a function of retinal disparity. Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1968, 26, 367-370.

Cormack, R. & Upchurch, R. Necker cube reversibility and perspective dominance as a function of rotation and retinal disparity. Psychonomic Science, 1969, 15(6), 305-307.

Cormack, R. Haptic illusion: apparent elongation of a disk rotated between the fingers. Science, 1973, 179, 590-592.

Cormack, R. Stimulus configuration and line orientation in the horizontal-vertical illusion. Perception and Psychophysics, 1974, 16(2), 208-212).

Blake, R. & Cormack, R. Psychophysical evidence for a monocular visual cortex in stereoblind humans. Science, 1979, 203, 274-275.

Blake, R. & Cormack, R. On utrocular discrimination. Perception and Psychophysics, 1979, 26(1), 53-68.

Blake, R. & Cormack, R. Can stereopsis be produced by contrast disparity alone? Vision Research, 1979, 19, 913-915.

Cormack, R. & Blake, R. Do the two eyes constitute separate visual channels? Science, 1980, 207, 1100-1102. With Blake, R.)

Martens, W., Blake, R., Sloane, M. & Cormack, R. What masks utrocular discrimination? Perception and Psychophysics, 1981, 30(6), 512-532.

Cormack, R. The constancy of stereoscopic depth perception. ONR Tech Report, N00014-82-C-01, 1982.

Cormack, R. Depth constancy in stereoscopic afterimages: effects of viewing distance and measurement method. ONR Tech Report, N14-0001-82C-0003, 1982.

Cormack, R. & Menendez, A The role of convergence in stereoscopic depth constancy. ONR Tech Report, N14-0001-83C-0001, 1983.

Cormack, R. Stereoscopic depth perception at far viewing distances. Perception and Psychophysics, 1984, 35, 423-428.

Cormack, R. & Fox, R. The computation of retinal disparity. Perception and Psychophysics, 1985, 37(2), 176-178.

Fox, R., Patterson, R. & Cormack, R. Discrimination of stereoscopic targets at "infinite" depth intervals. Suppl. Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science, 1985, 36, 185.

Cormack, R. & Fox, R. The computation of retinal disparity in stereograms. Perception and Psychophysics, 1985, 38(4), 375-380.

Cormack, R., Blake, R. & Hiris, E. Misdirected visual motion in the peripheral visual field. Vision Research, 1992, 32(1), 73-80.


Papers

Cormack, R. & Upchurch, R. Touch and visual feedback effects on ambiguous figure reversals. Southwestern Psychological Association, Austin, Texas, 1969.

Cormack, R. Stereopsis from chiastopic and orthopic viewing of redundant patterns. Rocky Mountain Psychological Association, Denver, Colorado, 1971.

Gibson, L. & Cormack, R. Reversal rate of a repetitively presented Necker cube as a function of on-off ratio. Rocky Mountain Psychological Association, Denver, Colorado, 1971.

Cormack, E. & Cormack, R. Interaction between stimulus configuration and line orientation on the horizontal-vertical illusion. Rocky Mountain Psychological Association, Denver, Colorado, 1971.

Cormack, R. Is the kinesthetic Gibson effect a contingent aftereffect? Psychonomic Society, San Antonio, Texas, 1978.

Blake, R. & Cormack, R. Utrocular discrimination and other binocular functions. Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, Sarasota, Florida, 1979.

Cormack, R. Eye of origin uncertainty in normal and stereoblind observers. Psychonomic Society, Phoenix, Arizona, 1979.

Cormack, R. Apparent distance and depth in stereoscopic afterimages. Psychonomic Society, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1981.

Fox, R., Patterson, R. & Cormack, R. Discrimination of stereoscopic targets at "infinite" depth intervals. Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, Florida, 1985.

Fox, R., Oross, S., Patterson, R. & Cormack, R. Depth threshold asymmetry between crossed and uncrossed disparity. Psychonomic Society, Boston, Massachusetts, 1985.

Cormack, L., Fox,R. & Cormack, R. Distance scales only crossed disparities veridically. Psychonomic Society, New Orleans, Louisiana, 1986.

Cormack, R., Blake, R. & Hiris, E. A new illusion involving misdirected visual motion. Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, Sarasota, Florida, May, 1991.

Cormack, R., Blake, R. & Hiris, E. Misdirected Visual Motion: MAE and Phi. Psychonomic Society, San Francisco, California, November, 1991.

Cormack, R. Visual Capture of Impossible Grating Motion. Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, April, 1996.

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