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Matthew Schlesinger received his graduate degree in cognitive development from the University of California at Berkeley in 1995. After spending a year as a visiting lecturer in psychology at Berkeley, Dr. Schlesinger recieved a Fulbright fellowship to study artificial life models of sensorimotor cognition with Domenico Parisi at the Italian National Research Council in Rome. Dr. Schlesinger continued his postdoctoral work in 1998-2000 with a multi-disciplinary team of researchers at the University of Massachusetts, studying machine-learning approaches to adaptive motor control.   There are three current areas of research: Visual attention and spatial working memory in infants, children, and adults   Neural network models of early visual processing and oculomotor control   Neural substrates of working memory and spatial-directed attention Please visit the Developmental Science Lab to learn more!

Matthew Schlesinger Associate Professor of Psychology Department of Psychology Life Sciences II Southern Illinois University Carbondale, IL 62901-6502 Phone: (618) 453-3524 Fax: (618) 453-3563 E-mail: matthews@siu.edu Personal Web Page Research Lab Developmental Science Lab Undergraduate Courses PSYC 301: Developmental Psychology PSYC 312: Sensation and Perception UHON 351:  Intelligence in Minds and Machines Graduate Courses PSYC 570: Early Cognitive Development Research Collaborators Dima Amso Scott Johnson Jonas Langer Domenico Parisi Students Joe Geeseman Jill Mayer Robert Russell

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Selected Recent Publications:

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Schlesinger, M. (2009). The robot as a new frontier for connectionism and dynamic systems theory. Invited chapter in J.P. Spencer, M.S.C Thomas, & J.L. McClelland (Eds.), Toward a unified theory of development: Connectionism and dynamic systems theory re-considered (pp. 182-199). New York: Oxford University Press.

Schlesinger, M. (2008). Heterochrony: It’s (all) about time! In M. Schlesinger, L. Berthouze, & C. Balkenius (Eds.), Proceedings of the Eighth International Workshop on Epigenetic Robotics: Modeling Cognitive Development in Robotic Systems (pp. 111-117). Sweden: Lund University Cognitive Studies.

Schlesinger, M., Berthouze, L., & Balkenius, C. (2008). Proceedings of the Eighth International Workshop on Epigenetic Robotics: Modeling Cognitive Development in Robotic Systems. Sweden: Lund University Cognitive Studies.

Schlesinger, M., Amso, D., & Johnson, S.P. (2007a). The neural basis for visual selective attention in young infants: A computational account. Adaptive Behavior, 15, 135-148.

Schlesinger, M., Amso, D., & Johnson, S.P. (2007b). Simulating infants' gaze patterns during the development of perceptual completion. In L. Berthouze, C.G. Prince, M. Littman, H. Kozima, & C. Balkenius (Eds.), Proceedings of the Seventh International Workshop on Epigenetic Robotics: Modeling Cognitive Development in Robotic Systems (pp. 157-164). Sweden: Lund University Cognitive Studies.

Schlesinger, M., & Parisi, D. (2007). Connectionism in an Artificial Life perspective: Simulating motor, cognitive, and language development. In D. Mareschal, S. Sirois, G. Westermann, & M.H. Johnson (Eds.), Neuroconstructivism: Vol. 2. Prospectives and prospects (pp. 129-158). Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.

Schlesinger, M. (2006a). Decomposing infants’ object representations: A dual-route processing account. Connection Science, 18, 207-216.

Schlesinger, M. (2006b). Neural constraints on the development of perceptual completion: A computational account. In the Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Development and Learning. Bloomington, IN: Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences.

Schlesinger, M., & Limongi, R. (2005). Towards a what-and-where model of infants’ object representations. In D. Blank & L. Meeden (Eds.), Proceedings of the AAAI 2005 Spring Symposium on Developmental Robotics.

Schlesinger, M. (2004). Evolving agents as a metaphor for the developing child. Developmental Science, 7, 154-168.

Schlesinger, M., & Parisi, D. (Eds.). (2004). Beyond backprop: Emerging trends in connectionist models of development. [Special section]. Developmental Science, 7, 131-132. Includes contributions from Sylvain Sirois, Yuko Munakata, Jason Pflaffy, Maartje Raijmakers, Peter Molenaar, and David Klahr.

 

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