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Rebecca Grayhem
Graduate Student
Department of Psychology, 125-NI
Northeastern University
Boston, MA 02115 USA
(617) 373-3095 (office)
(617) 373-8714 (fax)
grayhem.r@husky.neu.edu

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Advisor: Adam Reeves

Research

My research interests concentrate on human visual perception, and sensory processing. First, I am interested in how generating visual mental images can effect visual perception or perceptual accuracy in general, and how this relationship may vary between individuals. I am also interested in a phenomenon know as synesthesia, in which stimulation in one sensory modality elicits a perceptual experience in another modality or an additional perceptual experience in the same sensory modality (i.e. food may taste like shapes, or achromatic alphanumeric symbols may create a perceptual experience of certain colors). Specifically, I am interested in the prevalence, etiology, and behavioral and physiological consequences associated with this phenomenon.