Professor Timothy L. Hubbard
Timothy L. Hubbard, Ph.D. is Professor of Psychology, Texas
Christian University (TCU).
His primary scientific interest involves mental representation, and
under
this broad umbrella he’s investigated numerous phenomena. One area of
investigation involves representational momentum, a tendency for memory
for an object to be displaced or biased in ways consistent with that
object’s expected behavior. Studies of representational momentum led him
to related topics of perception of causality and boundary
extension.
A second area of investigation involves properties of mental imagery, and
this led him to study psychophysics. A third area of investigation
involves different aspects of music cognition. In addition to these
empirical studies, he is interested in philosophy of mind and
consciousness studies. He’s completed theoretical work on qualia and on
cognitive aspects of altered states such as dreaming and shamanism.
These investigations address what he sees as the greatest mystery of
science… how it is that we are able to reconstruct within our minds a
copy of the world, and how are the properties of that mental
representation related to the properties of the world?
Timothy authored
Representational momentum contributes to motion induced
mislocalization
of stationary objects,
What is mental representation? And how does it relate to
consciousness?,
Bridging the gap: Possible roles and contributions of
representational
momentum,
Computational theory and cognition in representational momentum and
related types of displacement: A reply to Kerzel, and
Representational momentum, flash-lag, and motion capture,
and coauthored
Evidence suggestive of separate visual dynamics in perception and in
memory and the innovative Amazon download
The force of appearance: gamma movement, naive impetus, and
representational momentum.
Timothy earned his B.A. (summa cum laude) at the University of Denver
and his Ph.D. at
Dartmouth College in 1988.
