Dr. Wendy Braje

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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 – Research Methods
  • PSY321 – Cognitive Psychology
  • PSY422 – Human Learning and Memory
  • PSY424 – Perception and Sensory Processes
  • PSY485 – Advanced Psychology Seminar
• 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.
• Recent Conference Presentations
  • Braje, W. L., Mansfield, J. S., Cubillo-Dreher, D., Delles, D., Guyer, K., Parmeter, C., Peroza, H., & Racicot, G. (2026, February). Memories of the 2024 solar eclipse: Clear or cloudy? Poster presented at the Eastern Psychological Association annual conference, Boston, MA.
  • Peroza, H. & Braje, W. L. (2025, March). Measuring imagery and knowledge of aphantasia. Poster presented at the Eastern Psychological Association annual conference, New York, NY.
  • Mansfield, J.S. & Braje, W.L. (2023). Total Recall: Long-Term Memory for the 2024 Solar Eclipse. Poster presented at the Annual Conference of the Association for Psychological Science, Washington, D.C.
  • Mansfield, J.S. & Braje, W.L. (2022). A new heuristic for finding the critical print size. Poster presented at the 13th International Low Vision Conference by the International Society for Low Vision Research and Rehabilitation, Dublin, Ireland.
  • Parker, H. & Braje, W.L. (2020) Medical professionals have limited familiarity with synesthesia. Poster accepted at the Annual Conference of the Association for Psychological Science. COVID prevented attendance.
  • Braje, W.L. & Quattrochi, A. (2019). Comparison of synesthesia experiences. Poster presented at the Annual Conference of the Association for Psychological Science, Washington, D.C.
  • Alexander, E. & Braje, W.L. (2017). Knowledge and experiences of people with synesthesia. Poster presented at the Annual Conference of the Association for Psychological Science, Boston, MA.
  • Braje, W.L. & Schrantz, M. (2016) Synesthesia: Familiarity and Misconceptions. Poster presented at the Annual Conference of the Association for Psychological Science, Chicago, IL.