Dr. Wendy Braje

Associate Professor of Psychology, Cognitive Psychology

My interests are in the areas of perception and cognition. Most recently, I have been interested in synesthesia. I have looked at the cognitive/memory aspects as well as the personal experiences of people with synesthesia.

Education
- Ph.D. in Cognitive and Biological Psychology, University of Minnesota, 1997
- B.A. in Psychology, Hope College, 1990
Teaching Areas
- PSY205 – Experimental Design
- PSY321 – Cognitive Psychology
- PSY422 – Human Learning and Memory
- PSY424 – Perception and Sensory Processes
Research Areas
- Visual perception and cognition, including object recognition and face perception
- Synesthesia
- Memory
Publications
- Braje, W.L. (2013) Test Bank, Web quizzes, and Clicker questions to accompany Gluck, Mercado, & Myers’s Learning and Memory: From Brain to Behavior. New York, NY: Worth Publishers.
- Krause, M.A. & Braje, W.L. (2008) Instructor’s Resources and Test Bank to accompany Gluck, Mercado, & Myers’s Learning and Memory: From Brain to Behavior. New York, NY: Worth Publishers.
- Braje, W.L. (2008) Web quizzes to accompany Gluck, Mercado, and Myers’s Learning and Memory: From Brain to Behavior. New York, NY: Worth Publishers.
- Braje, W.L. (2003) Illumination effects in face recognition: Effect of position shift. Journal of Vision, 3(2), 161-170, DOI 10.1167/3.2.4.
- Braje, W.L., Legge, G.E., & Kersten, D. (2000) Invariant recognition of natural objects in the presence of shadows. Perception, 29(4), DOI 10.1068/p3051, 383–398.
- Braje, W.L., Kersten, D., Tarr, M. J., & Troje, N. F. (1998) Illumination effects in face recognition. Psychobiology, 26(4), DOI 10.3758/BF03330623, 271–380.
- Braje, W. L., Tjan, B. S., & Legge, G. E. (1995). Human efficiency for recognizing and detecting low-pass filtered objects. Vision Research, 35(21), 2955–2966.
- Tjan, B. S., Braje, W. L., Legge, G. E., & Kersten, D. J. (1995). Human efficiency for recognizing 3-D objects in luminance noise. Vision Research, 35(21), 3053–3069.