Ira
Fischler
Professor Emeritus, Department of
Psychology
University of
Florida
P.O.
Box 112250
Gainesville, FL 32611-2250
(352) 273-2197
A Brief
BioSketch
- Born 1947 in Elizabeth, New
Jersey
- BA in Psychology from Franklin & Marshall
College, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, 1969
- MA & PhD in Cognitive Psychology from
Stanford University, Stanford, California, 1973
- On the faculty of Psychology Department, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida,
since 1973
- Research Fellow, Gallaudet University,
Washington, DC, 1980-1981
- Member of:
- UF Brain Institute
- UF Center for Neuropsychological Studies
- Association for Psychological Science
- Psychonomic Society
- Society for Psychophysiological Research
- Phi Beta Kappa - Beta chapter
of Florida (and Chair of the Membership Committee)
Personal
Notes
- Married to
Diane Ross Fischler, a freelance editor and writer at The Proofing Grounds, and editor at the
University of Florida Oral History
Project.
- ...With Children:
- Scott - graduate of Univ. of West
Florida, BA in Communication, and studying electrical engineering at
UCF
Working for Itec Entertainment as an Engineering
Associate, and consultant with Omni
NewMedia on web-based projects
- Matthew - graduate of Univ. of
Florida, BS Electrical Engineering, and UC Santa Cruz, MS, Computer
Engineering
Working for Qualcomm,
Inc., San Diego as a senior engineer
- Kelly - graduate of Univ. of Florida, BS in
Environmental Sciences, MS in Soil Science
Working with the St. Johns Water Management District as
Environmental Scientist
- Hobbies include music, cycling, home
maintenance, and travelling the US and studying American history with my
wife
Research Interests and Activities
- Human memory
- Attention and
automaticity
- event-related brain potentials in
cognition
- emotion and attention
- Simulation and learning in medical
education
- Predictive Inference
Scenarios. A set of 144 two-sentence scenarios for use in
studies of predictive inference-making in reading. Each scenario consists of a
"framing sentence" that sets up some expectation about an outcome, and an
"outcome" sentence that either confirms or disconfirms that
expectation. For each Inference scenario, there is a Control scenario
that is matched in terms of major lexical content and context, but is phrased
so that the expected outcome is much less likely. There are three kinds of
scenarios, varying in emotional tone: one third are pleasant situations, a
third are unpleasant, and a third emotionally neutral. This is an Excel
file that includes affective ratings of each Inference framing sentence
(pleasantness and arousal), and "Cloze" continuations for scenarios that
were presented up to the point where a single word could confirm or disconfirm
the expectation (for example: Your father collapses as he finishes the
road race. As you cradle his head, he
stops.....).
- COGEXP 2.0: A program for implementing a wide range
of experiments involving presenting verbal materials on a PC and recording
responses and response times. This was developed in 2004 at UF for several
research projects, and continues to be debugged and
expanded. CogExp 2.0 was written in Visual Basic 2005, using Visual
Studio and the .NET framework. To install it, download the zipped file below.
Unzip the application and run the setup.exe program on your machine; it will
install the CogExp application, and add a shortcut under Start / All Programs / University of
Florida.
- Overview of
Recent and Current Research Projects
Teaching
Activities
A sampler of courses I've taught at UF
(those with Web pages have hyperlinks):
Undergraduate level Courses:
Graduate Level Courses:
- Literature in Cognition and Sensory Processes
- Information Processing
- Attention and Performance
- Current Issues in Cognitive and Sensory Processes
- Psycholinguistics
- Human Memory