Postdoctoral Fellows and Research Associates in Vision Science Thomas J. Baker

Dr. Tom Baker received his B.S. in Psychology with Honors in 2002 from The Pennsylvania State University (Penn State). Following his undergraduate degree, he went on to complete an M.A. in Applied Psychological Research from Penn State while concurrently working as a research technician in the Departments of Neurology and Psychiatry at the Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center. In 2007 he completed his Ph.D. in Developmental and Cognitive Psychology at York University in Toronto, Canada, where he studied the development of saccadic eye movements in infants. Currently, Dr. Baker is affiliated with both the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences and the School of Optometry at Indiana University.

Publications

• Baker, T. J., Tse, J., Gerhardstein, P. C., & Adler, S. A. (2008). Contour integration by 6-month-old infants: Discrimination of distinct contour shapes. Vision Research, 48, 136-148.
• Baker, T. J. & Bichsel, J. (2006). Personality predictors of intelligence: Differences between young and cognitively healthy older adults. Personality and Individual Differences, 41, 861-871.
• Baker, T. J., Graybeal, L., & Barrett, A. M. (2006). Internally-generated memory testing: Results of repeated test administration. Experimental Aging Research, 32, 447-460.
• Gilmore, R. O., Baker, T. J., & Grobman, K. H. (2004). Stability in young infants' discrimination of optic flow. Developmental Psychology, 40, 259-270.