Publications


  1. Dickerson, K., Gillmore, S., & Davis, B. (In Prep). The impact of information density on ground target search via panel and head mounted displays. ​Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications.

  2. Gillmore, S., Millard, D., Davis, B., & Dickerson, K. (Submitted). Using visual search to explore the effect of information load on performance for early-stage prototype displays. ​(No. DAC-TR-XX). US Army Data and Analysis Center, Aberdeen Proving Ground, United States.

  3. Duff, M., Moser, A., Olsen, S., Foots, A., Gerhardstein, P., & Dickerson, K. (Under Review). Didn’t I just see that sound? Cross-modal facilitation during an identification task. Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications.

  4. Dickerson, K. (Under Review). Biologically-inspired strategies for deception in human-robot interactions. ​Frontiers​.

  5. Davis, B. M., Dickerson, K., & Gillmore, S. C. (2019, July). User Centered Design Strategies for Improving Visualization of Sensor Data in Rotorcraft Cockpit Displays for Degraded Visual Environment Operations. In ​International Conference on Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics (pp. 131-141). Springer, Cham.

  6. Perelman, B. S., Dickeson, K., & Gaston, J. (2019). Characterizing Asymmetrical Ratings of Similarity for Real-World Complex Environmental Sounds (No. ARL-TR-8672). US Army Combat Capabilities Development Command Aberdeen Proving Ground United States.

  7. Dickerson, K., Foots, A., Moser, A., & Gaston, J. (2018). ​Correlation between Identification Accuracy and Response Confidence for Common Environmental Sounds​ (No. ARL-TR-8383). US Army Research Laboratory Aberdeen Proving Ground United States.

  8. Peck, R. B., Hall, M. D., Gaston, J. R., & Dickerson, K. (2018). Evidence of Change Deafness with Continuously Moving Targets. ​Auditory Perception & Cognition, ​​1​(1-2), 66-96.

  9. Dickerson, K., Gerhardstein, P., & Moser, A. (2017). The role of the human mirror neuron system in supporting communication in a digital world. ​Frontiers in Psychology,​ ​8​, 698.

  10. Gaston, J., Dickerson, K., Hipp, D., & Gerhardstein, P. (2017). Change deafness for real spatialized environmental scenes. Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 2(1), 29.

  11. McArdle, J., Foots, A., Stachowiak, C., & Dickerson, K. (2017). ​Strategies for characterizing the sensory environment: objective and subjective evaluation methods using the VisiSonic real space 64/5 audio-visual panoramic camera​ (No. ARL-TR-8205). US Army Research Laboratory Aberdeen Proving Ground, United States.

  12. Dickerson, K., Gaston, J., & Oie, K. S. (2017, July). A Cybernetic Approach to Characterization of Complex Sensory Environments: Implications for Human Robot Interaction. In ​International Conference on Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics​ (pp. 14-22). Springer, Cham.

  13. Barr, R., Moser, A., Rusnak, S., Zimmermann, L., Dickerson, K., Lee, H., & Gerhardstein, P. (2016). The impact of memory load and perceptual cues on puzzle learning by 24-month olds. ​Developmental psychobiology,​ ​58(​ 7), 817-828.

  14. Dickerson, K., Gaston, J. R., Perelman, B. S., Mermagen, T., & Foots, A. N. (2016). Sound source similarity influences change perception in complex scenes. Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics, 23, 5-12.

  15. Dickerson, K., Sherry, L., & Gaston, J. (2016). The relationship between perceived pleasantness and memory for environmental sounds. ​The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America​, ​140​(4), 3390-3390.

  16. Dickerson, K., Perelman, B. S., Sherry, L., & Gaston, J. R. (2016). ​Two Classification Methods for Grouping Common Environmental Sounds in Terms of Perceived Pleasantness(​ No. ARL-TR-7960). US Army Research Laboratory Aberdeen Proving Ground United States.

  17. Gaston, J. R., Dickerson, K., Foots, A., Mermagen, T., Ericson, M., & Perelman, B. (2016). Spatial and temporal competitors bias auditory localization of impulse events. ​The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America,​ ​140​(4), 3101-3101.

  18. Gaston, J. R., Mermagen, T., Foots, A., & Dickerson, K. (2015). Auditory localization performance in the azimuth for tactical communication and protection systems. ​The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America​, ​137​(4), 2322-2322.

  19. Zimmermann, L., Moser, A., Grenell, A., Dickerson, K., Yao, Q., Gerhardstein, P., & Barr, R. (2015). Do semantic contextual cues facilitate transfer learning from video in toddlers?. Frontiers in Psychology, 6, 1-5.

  20. Moser, A., Gerhardstein, P., Dickerson, K., Zimmermann, L., & Grenell, A. (2015). Transfer learning in touchscreens and toddlers. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 137, 137-155.

  21. Dickerson, K., Gaston, J., & McCarty-Gibson, S. (2015). Parameterizing sound: Design considerations for an environmental sound database. (ARL-TR-7198) Army Research Lab Aberdeen Proving Ground MD Human Research and Engineering Directorate.

  22. Dickerson, K., & Gaston, J. (2014). Did you hear that? The role of stimulus similarity and uncertainty in auditory change deafness. Frontiers in Psychology, 5, 1-5.

  23. Taylor, G. Hipp, D., Moser, A., Dickerson, K., & Gerhardstein, P. (2014). The development of contour processing: Evidence from physiology and psychophysics. Frontiers in Psychology, 5, 1-10.

  24. Hipp, D., Dickerson, K., Moser, A., & Gerhardstein, P. (2014). Age-related changes in visual contour integration: Implications for physiology from psychophysics. Developmental Psychobiology.

  25. Amrein, B. E., Binseel, M., CuQlock-Knopp, V. G., Dickerson, K., Ericson, M., Fedele, P., & Gaston, J. et al., (2014). Sensory Perception in the Human Research and Engineering Directorate: Thrust Areas and Recent Research 2011-2014 (ARL-SR-0293). Army Research Lab Aberdeen Proving Ground MD Human Research And Engineering Directorate.

  26. Gaston, J., Mermagen, T., & Dickerson, K. (2013). Acoustic Measurement and Model Predictions for the Aural Nondetectability of Two Night-Vision Goggles (No. ARL-TR-6738). Army Research Lab Aberdeen Proving Ground MD Human Research and Engineering Directorate.

  27. Dickerson, K., Gerhardstein, P., Zack, E., & Barr, R. (2012). Developmental changes in learning across early childhood: A new imitation task. Developmental Psychobiology. *Awarded best paper at the annual meeting of the International Society on Developmental Psychobiology.

  28. Dickerson, K. (2012). Little couch potatoes: Why even when they’re looking young children fail to learn from video. *Doctoral dissertation. Binghamton University, Binghamton NY.

  29. Gerhardstein, P., Tse, J., Dickerson, K., Hipp, D., & Moser, A. (2012). The human visual system uses a global closure mechanism. Vision Research, 71, 18-27.

  30. Gerhardstein, P., Dickerson, K., Miller, S., & Hipp, D. (2012). Early operant learning is unaffected by socioeconomic status and other demographic factors. Infant Behavior and Development, 35, 472-478.

  31. Zack, E., Barr, R., Dickerson, K., Gerhardstein, P., & Meltzoff, A. (2009). Infant imitation from television using novel touchscreen technology. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 27, 13-26.

  32. Gerhardstein, P., Shroff, G., Dickerson, K., & Adler, S. A. (2009). The development of object recognition through infancy. In (Ed.s), B. C. Glenyn & R. P. Zini New Directions in Developmental Psychobiology, Ch. 5. Nova Science Hauppauge, NY, USA

Conference Presentations

  1. Olsen, S., Duff, M., Moser, A., Dickerson, K., & Gerhardstein (2018). Sound guiding vision: Using the visual world paradigm to directly compare speech and sound cueing image search. Poster presentation at the Annual Meeting of the Psychonomics Society, New Orleans, LA.

  2. Duff, M., & Dickerson, K. (2018). Discovering which features contribute to identifiability of everyday sounds and objects. Poster Presentation at the APCAM, New Orleans, LA.

  3. Dickerson, K., Perelman, B., & Gerhardstein, P. (2017). Cross-modal Matching as a Means of Stimulus Norming for the Visual World Paradigm. ​Journal of Vision​, ​17(​10), 200-200.

  4. Foots, A., Dickerson, K., & Gaston, J. (2016). Characterizing real-world auditory scenes using 360 audio-visual capture. ​The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America​, ​140​(4), 3276-3276.

  5. Dickerson, K., Gaston, J., Perelman, B., Mermagen, T., & Foots, A. (2016). The influence of similarity, identifiability, and memory on change deafness for environmental sounds. Oral presentation at the annual meeting of Psychonomics International, Granada Spain.

  6. Perelman, B., Gaston, J., & Dickerson, K. (2016). Using perceptual similarity spaces to predict classification of vehicle sounds. Oral presentation at the annual meeting of Psychonomics International, Granada Spain.

  7. Foots, A., Gaston, J., Mermagen, T., & Dickerson, K. (2016). Acoustic characteristics of tactical communication and protection systems. Poster presentation at AudiologyNow! 2016, Phoenix AZ

  8. Dickerson, K., Gaston, J. R., Perelman, B. S., Mermagen, T., & Foots, A. N. (2015, May). Sound source similarity influences change perception in complex scenes. In ​Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics 169ASA​ (Vol. 23, No. 1, p. 050006). ASA.

  9. Dickerson, K., Gaston, J., Foots, A., & Mermagen, T. (2015). Sound source similarity influences change perception during complex scene perception. ​The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America​, ​137​(4), 2226-2226.

  10. Dickerson, K., Gaston, J., Mermagen, T., Foots, A., & Hipp, D. (2015). Visual spatial uncertainty influences auditory change localization. ​Journal of vision​, ​15(​ 12), 718-718.

  11. Dickerson, K., Gaston, J., Hartman, K., Nagel, S., & Mermagen, T. (2015). Weapon Function Identification is influenced by contextual similarity. Poster presentation at the 56th annual meeting of the Psychonomics Society, Chicago IL

  12. Gaston, J., Foots, A., Mermagen, T., & Dickerson, K. (2015). Sound source localization for aided and unaided listening as a function of environmental sound context. Poster presentation at the 56th annual meeting of the Psychonomics Society, Chicago IL

  13. Hall, M., Peck, R., Gaston, J., Dickerson, K., & Daly, H. (2015). Methodological considerations and alternative explanations for demonstrations of change deafness. Oral presentation at the 14th annual Auditory, Perception, Cognition and Action Meeting (APCAM), Chicago IL.

  14. Perelman, B., Dickerson, K., & Gaston, J. (2015). Predicting change deafness in natural auditory scenes using perceptual and auditory similarity spaces. Oral presentation at the 14th APCAM, Chicago IL.

  15. Suwangbutra, J., Foots, A., Dickerson, K., Gaston, J., & Mermagen, T. (2015). Characterization of short-term and long-term spectral variation in real-world auditory backgrounds. Poster presentation at the 14th APCAM, Chicago IL.

  16. Dickerson, K., Gaston, J., Mermagen, T., Foots, A., & Hipp, D. (2015). Visual spatial uncertainty influences auditory change localization. Poster presentation at the annual meeting of the Vision Science Society, St. Petersburg FL.

  17. Dickerson, K., Gaston, J., Foots, A., & Mermagen, T. (2015). Sound source similarity influences change perception during complex scene perception. Poster presentation at the 168th meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Pittsburgh, PA.

  18. Gaston, J., Mermagen, T., Foots, A., & Dickerson, K. (2015). Auditory localization performance in the azimuth for tactical communication and protection systems. Oral presentation at the 168th meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Pittsburgh, PA.

  19. Dickerson, K., (2015) Characterizing change perception in complex operational environments. Oral presentation at the meeting for the Center for Auditory and Vestibular Research Network (CAVRN) San Diego, CA.

  20. Foots, A., Dickerson, K., Gaston, J., & Mermagen, T. (2015). Change localization in complex auditory scenes. Poster presentation at AudiologyNOW! 2015, (annual convention for the American Academy of Audiology), San Antonio, TX.

  21. Dickerson, K., & Gaston, J. (2014). Change deafness for identity and location of environmental sounds. Poster presentation at the 55th Annual meeting of the Psychonomics Society, Long Beach, CA.

  22. Gaston, J., Peitsch, K., Nagel, S., & Dickerson, K. (2014). Sound-source perception of small arms fire: The effects of hearing protection devices on recognition. Poster presentation at the 55th Annual meeting of the Psychonomics Society, Long Beach, CA.

  23. Moser, A., Xiang, J., Dickerson, K., Zimmermann, L., Grenell, A., Hipp, D., Barr, R., & Gerhardstein, P. (2014). Toddler’s labeling behavior predicts goal imitation success in transfer learning tasks. Poster presentation at the International Society for Developmental Psychobiology, Washington, D.C.

  24. Zimmermann, L., Dickerson, K., Moser, A., Gerhardstein, P., Barr, R., Grenell, A., & Yao, Q. (2014). Using puzzles to assess perceptual cues in social learning in 24-month-olds. Poster presentation at the International Conference on Infant Studies, Berlin, Germany.

  25. Dickerson, K., Gaston, J., & Scharine, A. (2014). Spatial influences on change detection within complex auditory scenes. Poster presentation at the 167th Annual meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Providence, RI.

  26. Barr, R., Moser, A., Grenell, A., Yao, C., Mendelson, C., Zimmermann, L., Dickerson, K., & Gerhardstein, P. (2013). Examining transfer of learning through puzzle play: The impact of context and dimensional change. Symposium presentation at the 2013 meeting of the Society on Research in Child Development, Seattle, WA.

  27. Zimmermann, L., Dickerson, K., Moser, A., Gerhardstein, P., Barr, R., Grenell, A., & Yao, C., (2013). Using puzzles to assess the effects of memory load on social learning strategy in preschool aged children. Poster presentation at the 2013 meeting of the Society on Research in Child Development, Seattle, WA.

  28. Moser, A., Dickerson, K., Grenell, A., Lee, H., Zimmermann, L., Barr, R., & Gerhardstein, P. (2013). Transfer learning across social learning contexts in 2.5 and 3-year-olds. Poster presentation at the annual meeting of the International Society of Developmental Psychobiology, San Diego, CA.

  29. Moser, A., Dickerson, K., Gerhardstein, P. Zimmermann, L., Oot, E., & Barr, R. (2012). Transfer of learning across dimensional changes in 2.5-year-olds. Poster presentation at the International Society of Developmental Psychobiology, New Orleans, LA.

  30. Dickerson, K., Oot, E., Yao, Q., Barr, R., & Gerhardstein, P. (2012) The effect of instructions on imitation from live and video demonstrations. Poster presentation at the International Conference on Infant Studies, Minneapolis MN.

  31. Dickerson, K., McIntyre, P., Barr, R., & Gerhardstein, P. (2011). The effect of repetition and exposure duration on the video deficit effect. Poster presentation at the annual meeting of the Association of Psychological Science, Washington DC.

  32. Barr, R., Dickerson, K., Gerhardstein, Zack, E., Frank, H., McIntyre, P., & Shuler, J. (2011). The protracted video deficit effect: Examining 1- to 4-year-olds’ imitation of a puzzle task. Poster presentation at Eastern Psychological Association, Boston MA.

  33. Dickerson, K., Gerhardstein, P., Zack, E., & Barr, B. (2010). The video deficit effect: Learning the means and the ends from live and video demonstrations. Poster presentation at the annual meeting of the International Society of Developmental Psychobiology, San Diego CA.

  34. Hipp, D., Miller, S., Gerhardstein, P., & Dickerson, K. (2010). The relation of demographic variables to associative learning in infancy. Poster presentation at the annual meeting of the International Society of Developmental Psychobiology, San Diego CA.

  35. Dickerson, K., Gerhardstein, P., Zack, E., & Barr, B. (2010). The video deficit effect in older children: Exploring task difficulty as a performance-limiting factor. Poster presentation at International Conference on Infant Studies, Baltimore MD.

  36. Gerhardstein, P., Dickerson, K., Zack, E., & Barr, R. (2009). Learning from screen media in older infants: an extension of the video deficit effect. Oral presentation at the annual meeting for the International Society of Developmental Psychobiology, Chicago IL.

  37. Dickerson, K., Gerhardstein, P., Zack, E., Barr, R., & Meltzoff, A. (2009). The video deficit effect. Poster presentation at the Joint Attention Conference, Boston MA.

  38. Zack, E., Barr, R., Shuck, L., Sperle, E., Shroff, G., Dickerson, K., Miller, S., Gerhardstein, P., & Meltzoff, A. (2007). Infants Fail at a Transfer of Learning Task from 2D to 3D and from 3D to 2D. Poster presentation at the International Conference on Infant Studies meeting, Vancouver, BC.

  39. Reilly, G., Dickerson, K., & Gerhardstein, P. (2007). Complex Object Recognition in Preschool Aged Children. Poster presentation at the International Conference on Infant Studies, Vancouver, BC.