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Sarah
H. Creem-Regehr Ph.D. |
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Associate
Professor
Department of Psychology
University of Utah |
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study the cognitive and neural mechanisms underlying space perception,
spatial cognition, perception and action, and motor imagery. |
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Contact Information |
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Sarah
H. Creem-Regehr Ph.D.
Department of Psychology
University of Utah
380 South 1530 East, Room 502,
Salt Lake City, Utah 84112 -0251
Office: 1003 Social And Behavioral Science Building
Office Phone: (801) 581-5045
E-mail: sarah.creem@psych.utah.edu
Fax: (801) 581-5841 |
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Education |
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| Ph.D. |
University
of Virginia (Psychology, 2000) |
| M.A. |
University
of Virginia (Psychology, 1997) |
| B.A. |
Colgate
University (Psychology, 1994) |
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Reseach Interests |
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My research program involves several focus areas in space and object
perception that are tied together by a common perspective that studying
action representations is essential for studying visual cognition.
One line of research asks how to define the modularity of the visual
system with respect to functionally separate but interactive visual
processing streams for perception and action. My second line of research
examines the neural and cognitive mechanisms involved in spatial transformations
of the self and of the external world. Most recently, I have been
using virtual environments to examine perception, action, and spatial
cognition, and at the same time asking fundamental questions about
how virtual environments are perceived. This work involves an active
interdisciplinary collaboration with faculty and students in computer
science. My approach is to use both cognitive and functional neuroimaging
methods to obtain converging evidence for the processes defining visual
cognition. |
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Selected Publications |
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Creem-Regehr,
S. H. (in press). Body mapping and spatial representation.
To appear in F. Dolins and R. Mitchell (Eds.) Spatial Cognition,
Spatial Perception. Cambridge University Press.
Thompson, W. B., Dilda, V., & Creem-Regehr, S. H. (in press). Absolute distance perception to locations off the ground plane. Perception.
Creem-Regehr, S. H., Dilda, V., Vicchrilli, A., Federer, F., & Lee, J. N. (2007). The influence of complex action knowledge on representations of novel graspable objects: Evidence from fMRI. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, 13, 1009-1020.
Creem-Regehr, S. H., Neil, J. A., & Yeh, H. J. (2007). Neural correlates of two imagined egocentric spatial transformations. Neuroimage, 35, 916-927.
Mohler, B. J., Thompson, W. B., Creem-Regehr, S. H., Pick, H. L., & Warren, W. H. (2007). Visual flow influences gait transition speed and preferred walking speed. Experimental Brain Research, 181, 221-228.
Mohler, B. J., Thompson, W. B., Creem-Regehr, S. H., Willemsen, P., Pick, Jr., H. L., & Rieser, J. J. (2007). Calibration of locomotion due to visual motion in a treadmill-based virtual environment. ACM Transactions on Applied Perception, 4(1).
Creem-Regehr, S. H., Willemsen, P., Gooch, A. A.,
& Thompson, W. B. (2005). The influence of restricted viewing
conditions on egocentric distance perception: Implications for real
and virtual environments. Perception, 34, 191–204.
Creem-Regehr, S. H. & Lee, J. N. (2005). Neural
representations of graspable objects: Are tools special? Cognitive
Brain Research, 22, 457–469.
Creem-Regehr, S. H., Gooch, A. A., Sahm, C. S., &
Thompson, W. B. (2004). Perceiving virtual geographical slant: Action
influences perception. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human
Perception and Performance, 30, 811–821.
Creem-Regehr, S. H. (2004). Remembering spatial locations:
The role of physical movement in egocentric updating (pp. 163–189).
In G. Allen (Ed.). Human Spatial Memory: Remembering Where.
Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc.
Thompson, W. B., Willemsen, P., Gooch, A. A., Creem-Regehr,
S. H., Loomis, J. M., & Beall, A. C. (2004). Does the
quality of the computer graphics matter when judging distance in visually
immersive environments? Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments,
13, 560–571.
Creem-Regehr, S. H. (2003). Updating space during
imagined self- and object-translations. Memory & Cognition,
31, 941–952.
Creem, S. H., Downs, T. H., Wraga, M., Harrington,
G., Proffitt, D. R., & Downs, J. H. (2001). An fMRI study of imagined
self-rotation. Cognitive, Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience,
1, 239–249.
Creem, S. H., Wraga, M., & Proffitt, D. R. (2001).
Imagining physically impossible transformations: Geometry is more
important than gravity. Cognition, 81, 41–64.
Creem, S. H., & Proffitt, D. R. (2001). Defining
the cortical visual systems: What, where, and how. Acta Psychologica,
107, 43–63.
Creem, S. H., & Proffitt, D. R. (2001). Grasping
objects by their handles: A necessary interaction between cognition
and action. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception
and Performance, 1, 218–228. |
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Current Graduate Students |
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Scott Kuhl - website
Ben Kunz - email me
Margaret Tarampi - website
Tina Ziemek - email me |
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Courses Taught |
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CNS
Approaches to Research
Cognitive Psychology
Cognitive Neuropsychology
Sensation and Perception
Neuropsychology of Vision |
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About Me |
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I
am happily married to John
Regehr and have two sons, Jonas and Isaac Regehr
(born December 17, 2004 and November 28, 2006).
 
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