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Michael A. Crognale, Ph.D. 

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Professor, Experimental Psychology, 

Program in Biomedical Engineering (BME)

Director, Cognitive and Brain Sciences Program in Psychology

Vision, Human Factors, and Aviation Consulting (www.SeeAero.com).

                                                                         Testing Sam


                                              Field Work in San Diego


        Turtle Testing Team at Sea World      Flying VEP Lab with Experimenter and Subjects


    Experimenters and subjects:
"VEP measures of physiological stress in the aviation environment."


         Sam and Alana with fresh catch.    Testing Leatherback Turtles in Trinidad (more pics)

Phone: (775) 682-8690

Office: Mack Social Science Room 407

Email: mikro@unr.edu

Information about our Color Vision Testing Lab and Service
*** Pilots! We also have the FAA approved Farnsworth Lantern Test (FALANT)

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Research Interests

• Genetics of color vision: Human electrophysiology and psychophysics to determine phenotype and genotype relationships and the genetic basis for color vision variation among normal and color deficient
• Comparative color vision
• Development  and aging of vision: Psychophysical investigations of color vision and electrophysiological assessment of color/luminance processing in infants and the aging population
• Color vision deficiencies applied to assess neural integrity in pathology and physiological stress
• Vision in Aviation;
• Link to flyby video demonstrating contrast masking in flight. 
• Aid to judging aircraft distance/size.
• Link to photos of flight simulator visual setup 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 (with mounts built by Dr. Smash ©) .
• Landings.com-Online aviation resources- aviation related news, books, and web resources.

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Professional Affiliations

·  Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology

·  Optical Society of America

·  American Physical Society

·  International Research Group on Color Vision Deficiencies

·  International Society for the Clinical Electrophysiology of Vision

·  Society for Neurosciences

·  American Association for the Advancement of Science

·  Rocky Mountain Psychological Association

·  National Association of Flight Instructors

·  Aerospace Lighting Institute

·  Aerospace Medical Association

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Recent Grants

Federal Aviation Administration Human Factors (Principal Investigator) Helicopter Pilot Performance: VFR into IMC. 2005-2006.

NASA/Ames Human Factors (Principal Investigator) Validation of NASA/FAA WEB-based training tool. 2005-2006.

National Marine Fisheries Institute- (consultant/co-investigator) Spectral Sensitivity in Sea Turtles Phase III. Circadian Effects 2005-2006.

Sanford Center for Aging Pilot Research Grant (Co-principal Investigator) Adaptation and aging in the human visual system. 2005-2006

Federal Aviation Administration AAR-100 (Principal Investigator) Visibility in the Flight Environment. 2003-2006.

National Marine Fisheries Institute- (consultant/co-investigator) Spectral Sensitivity in Sea Turtles. 2001-2004.

Federal Aviation Administration AAR-100 (consultant/co-investigator) The Use of Flight Training Devices in General Aviation Phase II. 2002-2003.

NASA Joint Research Grant (Principal Investigator) Allocation of Attentional Resources in the Cockpit Environment, 2002-2005.

NIH/NIA RO3 (Principal Investigator) Assessment of Chromatic Pathways in Aging, 2001.

Sanford Center for Aging Seed Grant (Principal Investigator) University of Nevada, Reno, Maturation and Aging of the Visual Pathways, 2000-2001.

Junior Faculty Research Award (Principal Investigator) University of Nevada, Reno, Development of Optical Imaging in Live Retina, 2000-2001. 

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· Curriculum Vitae (with pubs)

· Publications (full List)

Current Courses:

Physiological Psychology (403/603)

Advanced Physiological Psychology (721)

Contemporary Issues (762): Human Factors in Aviation

Advances in Physiological Psychology- (763): Comparative Sensory Physiology

Department of Psychology/296
University of Nevada, Reno
Reno, NV 89557
Phone: (775) 682-8690
FAX: (775) 784-1126

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University of Nevada, Reno
Maintained by: Michael A. Crognale, Ph.D.
Last Modified: July 9, 2007