Faculty and Staff - [ Faculty Bios - Carrick C. Williams ]

Education

• B.S., Kansas State University, 1995
• M.A., Michigan State University, 1998
• Ph.D., Michigan State University, 2003

Primary teaching Interests

• Cognitive Psychology
• Sensation and Perception
• Visual Cognition
• Statistics and Methods

Current Research

• Eye movements and reading
• Visual processing of irrelevant informtion
• Object Memory from incidental and intentional viewing
• Visual search and eye movements
• Scene and face processing
• Inhibition in younger and older adults

Selected Publications

• Williams, C. C., & Henderson, J. M. (In Press). The face inversion effect is not a consequence of aberrant eye movements. Memory and Cognition.
• Rayner, K., Li, X., Williams, C. C., Cave, K. R., & Well, A. D. (In Press). Eye movements during information processing tasks: Individual differences and cultural effects. Vision Research.
• Williams, C. C., & Pollatsek, A. (2007). Searching for an O in an array of Cs: Eye movements track moment-to-moment processing in visual search. Perception & Psychophysics, 69, 372-381.
• Christianson, K., Williams, C. C., Zacks, R. T., & Ferreira, F. (2006). Younger and older adults' "Good Enough" interpretations of garden path sentences. Discourse Processes, 42, 205-238.
• Rayner, K., Reichle, E. D., Stroud, M. J., Williams, C. C., & Pollatsek, A. (2006). The effect of word frequency, word predictability, and font difficulty on the eye movements of younger and elderly readers. Psychology & Aging, 21, 448-465.
• Williams, C. C., Perea, M., Pollatsek, A., & Rayner, K. (2006). Previewing the neighborhood: The role of orthographic neighbors as parafoveal previews in reading. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception & Performance, 32, 1072-1082.
• Henderson, J. M., Williams, C. C., & Falk, R. J. (2005). Eye movements are functional during face learning. Memory & Cognition, 33, 98-106.
• Williams, C. C., Henderson, J. M., & Zacks, R. T. (2005). Incidental visual memory for targets and distractors in visual search. Perception & Psychophysics, 67, 816-827.
• Henderson, J. M., Williams, C. C., Castelhano, M. S., Falk, R. J. (2003). Eye movements and picture processing during recognition. Perception & Psychophysics, 65, 725-734.
• Hollingworth, A., Williams, C. C., & Henderson, J. M. (2001). Scene context and change blindness: Memory mediates change detection. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 8, 761-768.