Achievement

Trainee Igor Dolgov graduated with a Ph.D. in Psychology with a concentration in Arts, Media and Engineering. He went on to a tenure-track faculty position in Engineering Psychology at New Mexico State University in Las Cruces in the fall of 2009. His dissertation title was "On the axis-aligned motion bias and other perceptual regularities: Perception, action, mediation and the importance of context". One key finding in his dissertation was that the ability to move within a mediated environment impacts the degree to which we are affected by perceptual biases, specifically the axis-aligned motion bias. In 2009 his work was featured in top psychology journals: Perception; Journal of Experimental Psychology; and Attention, Perception and Psychophysics. At UNM he currently leads a collaborative project on media systems for control of aerial vehicles for space exploration and he is continuing his research on perceptual biases in natural and mediated contexts.