Contact Info

Biography

Education:
BA (Psychology), University of Tulsa
MA (Experimental Psychology: Cognitive), Kent State University
PhD (Experimental Psychology: Cognitive), Kent State University

Research Expertise:
Visual Attention | Change Detection | Working Memory

Generally I study visual attention; it has been thought that we retain an accurate portrayal of our visual world simply by using our sense of vision. However, people are often poor at detecting large changes in their visual environment and they miss important information when their attention is focused on a primary task. My research focuses on examining factors that influence people’s ability to detect visual information that is vital to an accurate representation, because in many situations it is this information that if missed can lead to deleterious effects. There are many image properties that can affect visual attention, such as salience, scene context, and complexity. In addition, there may be factors within the individual that influence visual attention abilities, such as expertise and working memory capacity.

Honors and Awards:
Nomination, Lindback Distinguished Teaching Award, Rowan University 2014
Wall of Fame Teaching Award, Rowan University 2008

Member of:
Vision Sciences Society (www.visionsciences.org)
Psychonomic Society (www.psychonomic.org)

Recent Publications:
Angelone BL, Hass RW, Cohen M (2016) Skill transfer in visual-arts expertise. Psychol Aesthet Creat Arts. 10:147-156.

Angelone BL, Beck MR (2013) Change detection performance in naturalistic scenes: The influence of visual working memory for identity and spatial locations. Current Research in Psychology, 3:49-59.

Levin DT, Angelone BL, Beck MR (2011) Visual search for rare targets: Distracter-tuning as a mechanism for learning from repeated target-absent searches. Br J Psychol. 102:313-327.