PDF version of CV (8/2011)

RESEARCH INTERESTS

• Visual attention and awareness
• Statistical perception
• Object-based attention
• Working memory
• Consciousness
• Philosophy of mind

EDUCATION

Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey
Ph.D., Cognitive Psychology (May, 2011)
Cognitive Science Certificate Program; Perceptual Science Training Program

Stanford University Continuing Studies, Stanford, California
Courses in the humanities, neuroscience, and computer applications (1998-2004)

Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts
B.A., Philosophy and Psychology (December, 1995)

AWARDS & FELLOWSHIPS

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

English Department Writing Program, Rutgers University,, New Brunswick, New Jersey
Instructor: Expository Writing (8/10 - 5/11)

Psychology Department, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey
Instructor: Cognition Lab (8/06 - 5/08)

RESEARCH & PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Visual Attention Lab, Rutgers Center for Cognitive Science, New Brunswick, New Jersey
Research Assistant/Lab Manager (9/05 - 5/11; 8/11 - current)

Laboratoire de Psychologie, Université de Franche-Comté, Besançon, France
Postdoctoral Research Fellow (5/11 - 7/11)

Public Health Institute, Oakland, California
Research Consultant (7/01 - 7/08, part-time)

Rolo, San Francisco, California
Sales Associate (6/98 - 6/01; weekends)

Rice University, Jones Graduate School of Administration, Houston, Texas
Bookkeeper Assistant (11/96 - 11/97)

Rice University, Jones Graduate School of Administration, Houston, Texas
Research Assistant / Steering Committee (7/96 - 10/96)

Armani Exchange, Houston, Texas
Sales Associate / Key Holder (4/96 - 12/97; weekends)

Riccardi, Boston, Massachusetts
Sales Associate (6/95 - 3/96)

VOLUNTEER EXPERIENCE

Gabrieli Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory, Stanford, California
Intern / Research Assistant (6/04 - 2/05, part-time)

PUBLICATIONS

Chesney & Haladjian (in press). Evidence for a shared mechanism used in multiple object tracking and subitizing. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics.

Haladjian & Pylyshyn (2011). Enumerating by location: A new method for measuring the numerosity of visual object representations. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 73(2): 303-308. [link]

Haladjian, Singh, Pylyshyn, & Gallistel (2010). The encoding of spatial information during small-set enumeration. In Ohlsson & Catrambone (Eds.), Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 2839-2844). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.

Pylyshyn, Haladjian, King, & Reilly (2008). Selective nontarget inhibition in Multiple Object Tracking (MOT). Visual Cognition, 16(8): 1011-1021. [PDF]

Haladjian, Montemayor, & Pylyshyn (2008). Segregating targets and nontargets in depth eliminates inhibition of nontargets in Multiple Object Tracking. Visual Cognition 16(1):107-110. [PDF]

Feighery, Schleicher, & Haladjian (2006). Tobacco marketing in California retail outlets, 2000-2005: How the retail environment has changed over time and how community characteristics shape it. Public Health Institute: Oakland, CA. [PDF]

Rogers, Feighery, & Haladjian (2005). Current Practices in Enforcement of California Laws Regarding Youth Access to Tobacco Products and Exposure to Secondhand Smoke: Survey Report - June 2004. Oakland, CA: Technical Assistance Legal Center.

Henriksen, Feighery, Schleicher, Haladjian, and Fortmann (2004). "Reaching youth at the point of sale: Cigarette marketing is more prevalent in stores where adolescents shop frequently." Tobacco Control, 13 (3): 315-318. [PDF]

Feighery, Ribisl, Clark, & Haladjian (2003). "How tobacco companies ensure prime placement of their advertising and products in stores: interviews with retailers about tobacco company incentive programmes." Tobacco Control, 12(2):184-188. [PDF]

Haladjian, Howard-Pitney, Halvorson, Norman, & Howard. Local Tobacco Control Programs. In: Final Report: Independent Evaluation of the California Tobacco Control Prevention and Education Program: Waves 1, 2, and 3 (1996-2000). Independent Evaluation Consortium. Rockville, MD: The Gallup Organization, 2003. [PDF]

Ribisl, Lee, Henriksen, & Haladjian (2003). "A content analysis of web sites promoting smoking culture and lifestyle." Health Education and Behavior, 30 (1): 64-78. [PDF]

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

Talks:

Haladjian, Pylyshyn, & Gallistel (2010). The encoding of spatial information during small-set enumeration. Talk presented at the 32nd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CSS), Portland, OR.

Haladjian, Montemayor, & Pylyshyn (2007). Segregating targets and nontargets in depth eliminates inhibition of nontargets in multiple object tracking. Talk presented at the 15th Annual Object Perception, Attention, & Memory (OPAM) Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Long Beach, CA.

Posters (partial list):

Haladjian, Griffith, & Pylyshyn (2011). The attentional blink impairs localization but not enumeration performance in an “enumerating-by-pointing” task. Presented at the 11th Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society (VSS), Naples, FL.

Harman, Haladjian, Aks, & Pylyshyn (2011). Eye movements during an enumerating-by-pointing task enhance spatial compression. Presented at the 11th Annual VSS Meeting, Naples, FL.

Kibbe & Haladjian (2010). Visual attention and the tenuous binding of “what” and “where”: Evidence from infants and adults. Presented at the 18th Annual OPAM Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, St. Louis, MO.

Haladjian , Pylyshyn, & Gallistel (2010). The encoding of spatial information during small-set enumeration. Talk to be presented at the 32nd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CSS), Portland, OR (August 2010).

Haladjian , Chesney, & Pylyshyn (2010). Does the tracking of moving objects interfere with subitizing? Poster to be presented at the Association for Psychological Science 22nd Annual Conference, Boston, MA (May 2010).

Haladjian , Pylyshyn, & Gallistel (2010). Enumeration by location: Exploring the role of spatial information in numerosity judgments. Poster to be presented at the 9th Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society (VSS), Naples, FL (May 2010).

Haladjian , Pylyshyn, & Gallistel (2009). Enumerating by location increases the subitizing limit. Poster presented at the 17th Annual Object Perception, Attention, and Memory (OPAM) Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Boston, MA.

Haladjian & Pylyshyn (2009). Distributing targets on two depth planes increases tracking capacity in Multiple Object Tracking. Poster to be presented at the 31st Annual Conference of th Cognitive Science Society, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (7/09).

Aks, Haladjian, Pylyshyn, & Hakkinen (2009). Multiple Object Tracking with blink-contingent scene changes. Poster presented at the 9th Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, Naples, FL (05/09). [PDF]

Haladjian, Pylyshyn, & Kugel (2009). Multiple Object Tracking through temporal gaps created by the fading of objects. Poster presented at the 9th Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, Naples, FL (05/09). [PDF]

McKendrick, Haladjian, & Pylyshyn (2008). Illusory figures in Multiple Object Tracking. Poster presented at the 16th Annual Object Perception, Attention, and Memory (OPAM) Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Chicago, IL (11/08).

Haladjian & Pylyshyn (2008). Object-Specific Preview Benefit and Multiple Object Tracking: Priming effects enhanced during active tracking for both English letters and unfamiliar symbols. Poster presented at 30th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Washington, DC (7/08).

Haladjian & Montemayor (2008). Spatial cognition in different spaces. Poster presented at 30th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Washington, DC (7/08). [PDF]

Haladjian & Pylyshyn (2008). Object-specific preview benefit enhanced during explicit Multiple Object Tracking. Journal of Vision, 8(6):497, http://journalofvision.org/8/6/497/, doi:10.1167/8.6.497.

Haladjian, Montemayor, & Pylyshyn (2007). Segregating targets and nontargets in depth eliminates inhibition of nontargets in Multiple Object Tracking. Talk presented at the 15th Annual Object Perception, Attention, and Memory (OPAM) Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Long Beach, CA (11/07). [PDF]

Montemayor, Haladjian, & Pylyshyn (2007). Simultaneous and sequential presentations for object selection and memory recall. Poster presented at the 15th Annual OPAM Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Long Beach, CA (11/07). [PDF]

Haladjian & Pylyshyn (2007). Size differences improve tracking in MOT, but only when the size of targets/nontargets changes as a group. Presented at the 7th Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, Sarasota, FL (May, 2007). Journal of Vision, 7(9): 900a, http://journalofvision.org/7/9/900/, doi:10.1167/7.9.900. [PDF]

Haladjian & Pylyshyn (2006). Implicit multiple object tracking without an explicit tracking task. Presented at the 6th Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, Sarasota, FL (May, 2006). Journal of Vision 6(6), 773a, http://journalofvision.org/6/6/773/, doi:10.1167/6.6.773. [PDF]

Throckmorton-Belzer, Haladjian, Dauphinee, & Henriksen (2006). "Images of celebrities smoking elicit craving in young adult smokers." To be presented at the Society of Behavioral Medicine’s 27th Annual Meeting and Scientific Sessions, San Francisco, CA (March, 2006).

Haladjian & Henriksen (2003). “Susceptibility to smoking and advertising: Adolescents’ responses to retail tobacco ads.” Paper presented at the 131st Annual Meeting of the American Public Health Association, San Francisco, California (November, 2003). [PDF]

Johnson, Dauphinee, Haladjian, and Henriksen (2003). “Cigarette advertising may deter quitting: Conclusions from a content analysis of magazines.” Paper presented at the 131st Annual Meeting of the American Public Health Association, San Francisco, California (November, 2003). [PDF]

Henriksen, Fortmann, & Haladjian (2002). "Young adults' opinions of Philip Morris and its television advertising." Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Public Health Association, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (November, 2002).

Flora, Schleicher, Henriksen, Haladjian, & Fortmann (2000). "Reducing provision of tobacco to minors from social sources." Paper presented at the Tobacco-Related Disease Research Prevention Annual Investigators' Meeting, San Diego, California (November, 2000).

OTHER TRAINING

Stanford University (1998-2003): Designing Successful Web Sites; Understanding Internet Business Models; Intermediate Web Site Authoring with Macromedia Dreamweaver; Intermediate and Advanced Excel; Creative Nonfiction Writing, English Words: Structure and Meaning; Foucault and the Care of the Self; Nietzsche in the 21st Century; Ludwig Wittgenstein: Language, Logic, and Philosophy; Philosophy of Mind; The British Empiricists; Palestine, Zionism, and the Arab-Israeli Conflict

LearnIT (2003): Macromedia Flash MX

University of California Extension (2001): Introduction to Adobe Premiere 6.0

Rice University (1997): Philosophy of Mind (Eric Margolis)

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

• Vision Sciences Society (2005 - present)
• Cognitive Neuroscience Society (2004 - 2008)
• Cognitive Science Society (2002 - present)
• Friedrich Nietzsche Society (1997 - present)
• American Public Health Association (2002 - 2005)

SKILLS & INTERESTS

• Proficient in MATLAB, SPSS, Excel, PowerPoint, Word, EndNote, FileMaker, Photoshop, Illustrator, PageMaker, Premiere, ArcView Mapping software, Dreamweaver, and web-based programming languages (SQL, ASP, and HTML). Familiar with EyeLink (eye-tracking system), PsychoPy, R, SuperLab, Vision Shell, E-Prime, and Unix Shell Scripting.
• Extensive experience on both Macintosh and Windows operating systems
• Three years laboratory experience developing and printing black and white photographs, one semester printing color photographs
• Conversational Arabic, basic French and Spanish