CURRICULUM VITAE

 

 

 

WILLIAM P. BANKS

 

Addresses:

 

Home:  Office:
3955 Farmouth Dr. Department of Psychology
Los Angeles, CA 90027 Pomona College 
(323) 912-1197 Claremont, CA 9l7ll   
  (909) 607-2227, or
  (909) 621-8418

E-mail: wbanks@pomona.edu

 

Education:

 

            

Johns Hopkins University Ph.D., l968
Johns Hopkins University M.A., l966
St. John's College, Annapolis, MD B.A., l964

 

Honors:

 

              Wig Award for Distinguished Teaching, l978, 2002.

              Best Student Paper, Maryland Psychological Association, April, l966

              B.A. Cum Laude, St. John's College, June, l964

              Mathematical Prize, St. John's College, June, l962

 

Professional Experience:

 

Regular faculty positions, Pomona College:

 

              2001-   Chair, Department of Psychology

              l979-Present Professor, Department of Psychology

              l977-1990    Chair, Department of Psychology

              l974-l979      Associate Professor, Department of Psychology

              l969-l974      Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology

 

Visiting positions and sabbaticals:

 

1993-4.  Visiting scholar, UCLA.  (Sponsor: Keith Holyoak)

1983-l984 Visiting scholar, University of California, San Diego (Sponsor:  Donald A. Norman)

1980-1981 Visiting scholar, Harvard University (Sponsor: William K. Estes);Visiting scholar, MIT (Sponsor:  Mary C. Potter)

1975-1976 Visiting scholar, Johns Hopkins University(Sponsor: Howard Egeth)

1972-1973 Visiting scholar, Stanford University (Sponsor: Edward E. Smith)

Summers of1970,71,72  Research Associate, John B. Pierce Foundation Laboratory, Yale University

1968-1969  Postdoctoral scholar, Institute of Human Learning, University of California, Berkeley


Grants and Awards:

 

1991-1994  Irvine Foundation Grant for Research in the Sciences; two successive grants.

1986-1992  Sloan New Liberal Arts Program.  Two separate grants for Claremont Colleges totaling $650,000.  Wrote part of both proposals, served on steering committee, and was Project Director for two separate terms. 

1979-1982  NIMH Grant MN33279.  Title: "Visual organization and information processing" (Principal Investigator)

1979-1983  National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism Grant AA03155.  Title: "Diagnosis of potential and present alcohol abuseÓ  (Co-Principal Investigator)

1978-1980  National Science Foundation Grant BNS 78-17442.  Title:  ÒEncoding and processing of symbolic information".  (Principal Investigator)

1975-1977  National Science Foundation Grant GMS 75-20328.  Title: "Visual organization and information processing".(Principal Investigator)

1973-1974  NIMH Small Grant.  Title:  "Dynamics of warm and cold" Adaptation, summation, and RT" (Principal Investigator)

1972-1974  National Science Foundation Instructional Scientific Equipment Program.  Equipment used to build laboratory for research and teaching in cognition and visual perception. (Project Director)

1971-1972  Intercollegiate Research Grant (with Dr. Leah Light, Pitzer College); Ford Foundation.  Topic:  Chronometric analysis of short-term memory.

1968-1969  Postdoctoral Grant PHS GM10207

1967-1968  Predoctoral Dissertation Grant, NIMH

1964-1967  Gilman Fellowship, Johns Hopkins University

 

              National Committees and Panels:

 

1992-1994  National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship Selection Panel.

1988-1990  Air Force Office of Scientific Research, Cognitive Science Panel

1985-1988  Memory and Cognitive Processes, National Science Foundation

1981-1983  American Psychological Foundation Teaching Award Committee

 

Administration:

 

1971-73 Executive Committee, Graduate Faculty in Psychology, Claremont Graduate School

1971, 1973-6,1977-80, 1982-1984, 1990-92  Member, Faculty Research Committee, Pomona

1977-1990 Chair, Department of Psychology, Pomona

1977-79 Member, Administration Committee, Pomona

1984-87 Chair, Computer Committee, Pomona: Committee formulated policy for redesign of computer services at Pomona and policy now in place.

1985-1986 Member, Committee to write Claremont proposal to Sloan Foundation New Liberal Arts (NLA) Program (a 3-year, $325,000 grant was awarded in 1986)

1986-1987 Chair, ad hoc committee on curricular reform, Pomona College.

1986-1989 Member Steering Committee for Sloan/Claremont NLA Project; also member of committee to write renewal of grant, which was funded in 1989.for $350,000.

1989-1992 Co-Director of Sloan/Claremont NLA Project; also Co-Director and co-creator of the NLA Problem-solving Clinic Program, which is to continue after Sloan program ends.

 

Editorships:

 

1990-present  Founding co-editor (with Bernard Baars) of the journal, Consciousness and Cognition (Elsevier)

1988-present Psychology Editor,  International Encyclopedia of Science and Technology.

1984-1987 Associate Editor, Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception & Performance

1980-1984 Consulting Editor, Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception & Performance

1979-1984 Consulting Editor, Perception & Psychophysics

1978-1990 Consulting Editor, Journal of Experimental Psychology: General

1976-1980 Consulting Editor, Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Learning & Memory

Ad-Hoc Reviewer for a wide variety of journals.

 

Publications

 

Banks, W. P. (l969) Criterion change and response competition in unlearning. Journal of Experimental Psychology, 82, 216-223.

 

Banks, W. P. (1969) Temperature sensitivity:  One subjective continuum or two?  Perception & Psychophysics, 6, l89-l92.

 

Banks, W. P. (1969)  Laboratory Manual for Introduction to Psychology. Claremont:  Pomona College.

 

Banks, W. P. (l969)  Signal detection theory and human memory. Psychological Bulletin, 74, 81-99.

 

Banks, W. P., & Stevens, J. C.  (1970) Reciprocity between area and intensity in the Warmth sense:  A reaction time study.  Psychonomic Science, 2, 314.

 

Banks, W. P. (l97l) Confidence-rated recall, dr, and tests of Bernbach's finite-state theory in recall.  Psychological Bulletin, 76, 151-152.

 

Stevens, J. C., & Banks, W. P. (1971) Spatial summation in relation to speed of reaction to radiant stimulation.  International Journal of Biometeorology, 15, 111-114.

 

Banks, W. P., & Kane, D. A.  (1972) Discontinuity of seen motion reduces the visual motion aftereffect.  Perception & Psychophysics, 12, 69-72.

 

Wyant, S., Banks, W. P., Berger, D., & Wright, P. W. (l972) Verbal and pictorial similarity in memory for pictures.  Perception & Psychophysics, 12, 151-153.

 

Banks, W. P. (l973) Reaction time as a measure of summation of warmth. Perception & Psychophysics, 13, 321-327.

 

Lawrence, D. M., & Banks, W. P. (l973) Accuracy of recognition memory for common sounds, Bulletin of the Psychonomic Society, 1, 298-300.

 

Banks, W. P. (l973) A new psychophysical ratio scaling technique: Random production.  Bulletin of the Psychonomic Society, 1, 273-275.

 

Banks, W. P., & Hill, D. K.  (1974) The apparent magnitude of number scaled by random production.  Journal of Experimental Psychology  (Monograph Series), 102, 353-376.

 

Banks, W. P., & Fariello, G. R. (l974) Latency and memory load in recognition of pictures.  Memory & Cognition, 2, 144-148.

 

Banks, W. P.  (1974) Memory search of words and nonwords. Psychological Reports, 34, 311-814.

 

Banks, W. P., & Coffin, S. (l974),  Implicit depth cues do not create subjective contours.  Psychological Review, 81, 265.

 

Banks, W. P., & Atkinson, R. C. (1974) Accuracy and speed strategies in scanning active memory.  Memory & Cognition, 2, 629-636.

 

Banks, W. P., Bodinger, D., & Illige, M. (l974)  Visual detection accuracy and target-noise proximity.  Bulletin of the Psychonomic Society, 2, 411-414.

 

Banks, W. P., Clark, H. H., & Lucy, P. D. (l975)  On the locus of the semantic congruity effect in comparative judgments.  Journal of Experimental Psychology:  Human Perception and Performance, 1, 35-47.

 

Banks, W. P., & Prinzmetal, W. (l976) Configurational effects in visual information processing.  Perception and Psychophysics, 19, 361-367.

 

Banks, W. P. (l976) Areal and temporal summation in the thermal reaction time. Sensory Processes, 1, 2-13.

 

Banks, W. P., Fujii, M., & Kayra-Stuart, F. (1976) Semantic congruity effects in comparative judgment effects in comparative judgments of magnitudes of digits. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance,2,435-447.

 

Banks, W. P. (l977)  Encoding and processing of symbolic information in comparative judgments.  In G. H. Bower (Ed.)  The Psychology of Learning and Motivation, Vol. 11. N.Y.:  Academic Press.

 

Banks, W. P., & Flora, J. (1977) Semantic and perceptual processes in symbolic comparisons.  Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 3, 278-290.

 

Prinzmetal, W., & Banks, W. P. (l977) Good continuation affects visual detection.  Perception & Psychophysics, 21, 389-395.

 

Banks, W. P., Bachrach, K., & Larson, D. W. (l977) Asymmetry of lateral interference in visual letter identification.  Perception & Psychophysics, 22, 232-240.

 

Ford, B., & Banks, W. P. (l977)  Perceptual differences between reading handwritten and typed words.  Memory & Cognition, 5, 630-635.

 

Banks, W. P., & Barber, G. (l977)  Color information in iconic memory. Psychological Review, 84, 536-546.

 

Potts, G., Banks, W. P., Kosslyn, S. M., Moyer, R. S., Riley, C., & Smith, K. (l978) Encoding and retrieving ordered relationships. In Castellan, N. J., and Restle, F. (Eds.) Cognitive Theory, Vol. 3.N. J.: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

 

Prinzmetal, W., & Banks, W. P. (l978)  A psychological laboratory based on a PDP ll/l0 with graphics.  Behavior Research Methods and Instrumentation, l0, (6), 779-784.

 

Banks, W. P., Larson, D. W., & Prinzmetal, W.  ( l979) Asymmetry of visual interference.  Perception & Psychophysics, 25, 447-456.

 

Banks, W. P., & Root, M.  (l979) Semantic congruity effects in judgments of loudness.  Perception & Psychophysics, 26, 133-142.

 

Banks, W. P., Vogler, R. E., & Weissbach, T. A. (l979) Adaptation of ethanol intoxication.  Bulletin of the Psychonomic Society, 14, 3l9-322.

 

Mermelstein, R., Banks, W. P., & Prinzmetal, W. (l979)  Figural goodness effects in perception and memory.  Perception & Psychophysics, 26, 472-480.

 

Banks, W. P., Oka, E., & Shugarman, S. (l980) Recoding of printed words to internal speech:  Does recoding come before lexical access?  In Tzeng, O., and Singer, H. (Eds.) The Perception of Print:  Reading Research in Experimental Psychology.  Hillsdale, N.J.:  Erlbaum..

 

Byron & Banks(1980) , Patterned stimuli in disinhibition and backward masking Bulletin of the Psychonomic Society, 15, 105-108.

 

Banks, W. P., & Barber, G. (l980) Normal iconic memory for stimuli invisible to the rods.  Perception & Psychophysics, 27, 581-584.

 

Banks, W. P., White, H., & Mermelstein, R. (l980) Position effects in comparative judgments of serial order:  List structure vs. differential strength.  Memory & Cognition, 8, 623-630.

 

Banks, W. P., & Coleman, M.  (1981) Two subjective scales of number.  Perception & Psychophysics, 28, 95-105.

 

Banks, W. P. (l98l) Assessing relations between imagery and perception.  Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception & Performance, 7, 844-847.

 

Banks, W. P. & White, H. (l982) Single ordering as a processing limitation.  Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 21, 39-54.

 

Banks, William P; Mermelstein, Robin; Yu, Howard K. (1982) Discriminations among perceptual and symbolic stimuli. Memory & Cognition. Vol 10(3), 265-278.

 

Benton, R. P., Banks, W. P., & Vogler, R. E. (l982) Carryover of tolerance to alcohol in moderate drinkers.  Journal of Studies on Alcohol, 43, 1137-1148.

 

Banks, W. P. (l983) On the decay of the icon.  The Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 6, 14.

 

Prinzmetal, W. & Banks, W. P. (l983) Perceptual capacity limits in visual detection and search.  Bulletin of the Psychonomic Society, 21, 263-266.

 

Banks, W. P., White, H., Sturgill, W., & Mermelstein, R. (l983) Semantic Congruity and Expectancy in Symbolic Judgments.  Journal of Experimental Psychology:  Human Perception and Performance, 9, 580-582.

 

Banks, W. P. (1984) Eye movements as a handle on cognition in reading, Contemporary Psychology [Review of K. Rayner (ed.) 1983 Eye Movements in Reading. N.Y.: Academic Press.]

 

Banks, W. P. & White, H. (l984) Lateral interference and perceptual grouping in visual detection.  Perception & Psychophysics, 36, (3), 285-295.

 

Banks, W. P. & Zender, J. P. (l984)  A test of time sharing in auditory attention.  Bulletin of the Psychonomic Society, 22, (6), 541-544.

 

Banks, W. P. & White, H.(1985) Semantic congruity and expectancy as separate processes.  Memory & Cognition, 12, 485-493.

 

Lunn, R. & Banks, W. P., (1986) Visual Fatigue and Spatial Frequency Adaptation to Video Displays of Text, Human Factors, 28, 457-464.

 

Berger, Dale, E., Pezdek, Kathy, and Banks, W. P., (1987) Applications of Cognitive Psychology: Problem solving, education, and computing. Hillsdale, N.J.: Erlbaum.

 

Zeidel, E., White, H., Sakurai, E., & Banks, W. P. (1988) Hemispheric locus of lexical congruity effects: Neuropsychological reinterpretation of psycholinguistic results. In Chiarello, C. (Ed.), Right Hemisphere Contributions to Lexical Semantics. New York: Springer-Verlag.

 

White, H., Banks, W.P., & Zaidel, E.  (1990) Laterality effects in symbolic judgment: The influence of semantic congruity on hemispheric processing.  Bulletin of the Psychonomic Society, 28, 401-404.

 

Banks, W.P. & Krajicek, D.  (1990) Attentional selection of items and spatial locations Bulletin of                          the Psychonomic Society, 28, 37-40.

 

Banks, W.P. & Krajicek, D.  (1991)  Perception.  Annual Review of Psychology, 42, 305-331.

 

Baars, B.J. & Banks, W.P. (1992) On returning to consciousness.  Consciousness and Cognition, 1, 1-2.

 

Banks, W. P. (1993)  The Structure of Perception [Review of The Perception of Structure: Essays in Honor of Wendell R. Garner.]  Contemporary Psychology, 38, 257-259.

 

Banks, W. P. (1993) Problems in the scientific pursuit of consciousness.  Consciousness and Cognition., 2, 255-263.

 

Banks, W.P. & Pezdek, K. (1994) The Recovered Memory/False Memory Debate. Consciousness and Cognition, 3, 265-268.  (The entire special issue is pp. 265-469 of this issue.)

 

Banks, W.P., Roberts, D., & Ciranni, M.  (1995) Negative priming in auditory attention.  Journal of experimental Psychology: Human Perception & Performance.  21, 1354-1361.

 

Banks, W. P.  (1995) Evidence for consciousness.    Consciousness and Cognition, 4, 270-272.

 

Banks, W. P.  (1995) Implicit Memory.  Consciousness and Cognition, 4, 369-370.

 

Pezdek, K. & Banks, W.P. (Eds.)  (1996)  The Recovered Memory/False Memory Debate.  San Diego: Academic Press.

 

Banks, W.P. (1996) Implicit memory, Part 2.  Consciousness and Cognition,, 5, 1.

 

Banks, W.P., and Karam, S. J. (1996).  Medico-Psychological study of a memory disorder (Translation of S.S. Korsakoff (1889) Etude medico-psychologique sur une forme des malalies de la memorie.  Revue Philosophique, 28 501-530)  Consciousness and Cognition, 5, 2-21.

 

Banks, W.P. (1996) Korsakoff and amnesia.  Consciousness and Cognition,  5, 22-26.

 

Banks, W. P. (1996) How much work can a Quale do?   Consciousness and Cognition,  5, 368-380.

 

Banks, W.P. & Thompson, S.  (1996) The mental image of the human body: Implications of physiological mental models for our understanding of health and illness.  In Mio, J. S. and A.N. Katz. Metaphors: Implications and Applications, NJ: Erlbaum.

 

Banks, W. P, Chen, Y-P., & Prull, M. W. (1999).  Memory and Awareness: Is memory information stratified into conscious and unconscious components? In, Challis, B. H. & Velichkovsky, B. M. (Eds.) Stratification of Consciousness and Cognition.  John Benjamins: Amsterdam.

 

Banks, W. P. (2000) Recognition and Source Memory as Multivariate Decision Processes.  Psychological Science. 11(4), 267-273.

 

Banks, W. P. & Farber, I. (2002) Consciousness. In Experimental Psychology, pp. 3-31, Volume 4 of the Wiley Comprehensive Handbook of Psychology. New York: Wiley.

 

Baars, B. J., Banks, W. P., & Newman, J. B. (2003) Essential Sources in the Scientific Study of Consciousness. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.