Southern Illinois University Carbondale

	Matt Schlesinger
Degree	Ph.D., UC Berkeley
Position	Associate Professor, Brain and Cognitive Science
Office	268, Life Sciences II
Phone	(618) 453-3524
Fax	(618) 453-3563
Email	matthews@siu.edu
Biosketch	Matthew Schlesinger is an Associate Professor and a member of the Brain and Cognitive Sciences program in the Department of Psychology. He studies early cognitive development in biological and artificial systems. His core interests include development in infancy and early childhood, motor skill acquisition, and sensorimotor cognition in autonomous agents. Current investigations focus on behavioral and computational modeling approaches to studying young infants' perceptual cognition.
Research Interests	Early Cognitive Development Behavioral and Computational Modeling
Selected Publications	Recent Journal Articles: Schlesinger, M., Amso, D., & Johnson, S.P. (in press). The neural basis for visual selective attention in young infants: A computational account. Adaptive Behavior. Schlesinger, M. (2006). Decomposing infants' object representations: A dual-route processing account. Connection Science, 18, 207-216. Schlesinger, M. (2004). Evolving agents as a metaphor for the developing child. Developmental Science, 7, 158-164. Schlesinger, M., & Parisi, D. (Eds.). (2004). Beyond backprop: Emerging trends in connectionist models of development. [Special section]. Developmental Science, 7, 131-132. Schlesinger, M. (2003). A lesson from robotics: Modeling infants as autonomous agents. Adaptive Behavior, 11, 97-107. Schlesinger, M, & Casey, P. (2003a). Where infants look when impossible things happen: Simulating and testing a gaze-direction model. Connection Science, 15, 271-280.
Teaching	Undergraduate Psychology Course(s): Child Development (Psyc 301) Sensation and Perception (Psyc 312) Graduate Course(s): Early Cognitive Development (Psyc 570)