PAMELA E. JETER, Ph.D.

UCLA Department of Psychology

7445B Franz Hall

Los Angeles, CA 90095-1563

pamela.jeter@gmail.com

Education 2008 PhD, Experimental Psychology, University of California, Irvine, CA

2004 MA, Experimental Psychology, University of California, Irvine, CA

1994 BS, Marketing Education, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC

1994 BA, Business Management, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC

Academic Positions 2008-present Postdoctoral Scholar, Visual & Multisensory Perception Lab,

Dept. of Psychology, UCLA

2006-2008 Graduate Student Research Assistant, Memory, Attention, and Perception Lab, Dept. of Cognitive Sciences, UCI

2003-2006 Teaching Assistant, Dept. of Cognitive Sciences, UCI

Academic Honors 2009 Center for Experimental Neurorehabilitation Training (CENT) Pilot Grant for Multisensory Training and tDCS for Rehabilitation of Post-stroke Visual Field Defects (Awarded to L. Shams & PE Jeter)

2006-2007 UCI Faculty Mentor Program Diversity Fellowship

2005 UCI Research Imaging Center Pilot Funding

2003-2006 UC Regents Summer Fellowship

2002 UC Regents Fellowship

1989-1993 North Carolina Teaching Fellows Scholarship

1992 NC State University Outstanding Women’s Award

Publications Jeter, PE, Dosher, BA, Petrov, A, & Lu, Z-L. (2009). Task precision at transfer determines specificity of perceptual learning. Journal of Vision, 9(3): 1, 1–13, http://journalofvision.org/9/3/1/, doi:10.1167/9.3.1.

Jeter, PE, Dosher, BA, & Liu, S-H. Specificity of Perceptual Learning Following Different Amounts of Training (Manuscript in Preparation-All Data Collection Complete)

Jeter, PE, Dosher, BA, & Lu, Z-L. Specificity of Perceptual Learning During Simultaneous Training (Manuscript in Preparation-All Data Collection Complete)

Jeter, PE, Dosher, BA, & Lu, Z-L. Isolating Precision-Specific Effects in a Single vs. Double Dimension Switch (Manuscript in Preparation-All Data Collection Complete)

Oral Presentations Characteristics of Specificity and Transfer in Perceptual Learning. Presented at the 2009 meeting of the Annual Interdisciplinary Conference

Is training in high precision tasks independent even when orientation or position is shared? Presented at the 2008 meeting of the Vision Sciences Society

Specificity of Perceptual Learning Following Different Amounts of Training. Presented at the 2007 meeting of the Vision Sciences Society

Perceptual Learning: A Specificity and Learning Rate Experiment. Department of Cognitive Sciences, University of California, Irvine, May 2004

Scientific Abstracts Liu, S-H, Dosher, BA, Lu, Z-L, Jeter, PE. (2007). Incompatibility of the object-judgment reference frames has costs in dual-object report deficits. Poster presented at the 2007 meeting of the Vision Sciences Society

Jeter, PE, Dosher, BA, & Lu, Z.-L. (2006). Transfer patterns of Perceptual Learning During Simultaneous Training of Easy and Difficult Tasks. Poster presented at the 2006 meeting of the Vision Sciences Society

Jeter, PE, Dosher, BA., Petrov, A., & Lu, Z.-L. (2005). Identical transfer of perceptual learning following easy and difficult task training. Poster presented at the 2005 meeting of the Vision Sciences Society

Research Experience Current Projects

Role: Postdoctoral Scholar, Dept. of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles

Research Subject: Multisensory Training and tDCS for Rehabilitation of Post-stroke Visual Field Defects. My general goal is to explore applications of theory-driven training protocols to the neurorehabilitation of visual deficits. To this end, I intend to investigate two noninvasive approaches known to promote plasticity in healthy subjects and examine their potential for treatment of visual deficits caused by stroke. One approach is based on multisensory perceptual learning and another approach is based on transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS). Funding: Institutional Start Up Funds (awarded to L. Shams)

Role: Graduate Student, Dept. of Cognitive Sciences, University of California, Irvine

Research Subject: Visual Processes in Aging and Mild Cognitive Impairment. Visual performance tests for the early detection of Alzheimer’s. Recent studies have demonstrated that in addition to memory loss, visual processing may be compromised in Alzheimer’s disease. We are comparing differences in contrast sensitivity with and without visual noise (like visual “snow”) in normal aging groups versus those with mild cognitive impairments (MCI) and young healthy adults. The working hypothesis is that changes in performance in the MCI group are characterized by higher susceptibility to visual noise.

Funding: National Institute on Aging (awarded to B. Dosher)

Completed Projects

Role: Graduate Student, Dept. of Cognitive Sciences, University of California, Irvine

Research Subject: Precision of transfer tasks determines specificity of perceptual plasticity. We employed standard psychophysical training paradigms, wherein observers were trained extensively in a perceptual task (e.g. orientation discrimination) before they were switched to an alternate form of the task during the test or transfer phase. The standard view was that transfer should be modulated by the task difficulty of the training task. We found that transfer is instead modulated by the demands of the transfer task.

Funding: RO1 from NIMH (awarded to B. Dosher)

Role: Graduate Student, Dept. of Cognitive Sciences, University of California, Irvine

Research Subject: Specificity of Perceptual Learning Following Different Amounts of Training. We systematically studied whether the amount of training impacts the specificity observed. We found that training until performance reaches asymptotic levels may actually hinder generalization to another, similar task at the point of transfer. Minimally, what is learned early is more transferable than what is learned later.

Funding: UCI Faculty Mentor Program Diversity Fellowship (awarded to PE Jeter) and 5R01EY017491-07 National Eye Institute, NIH (awarded to B. Dosher)

Role: Graduate Student, Dept. of Cognitive Sciences, University of California, Irvine

Research Subject: Specificity of Perceptual Learning During Simultaneous Training. We tested whether this pattern holds under a simultaneous training paradigm where the training and test stimuli are interleaved within a single session. Consistent with our original findings, transfer from sequential training protocols generalized to interleaved training protocols.

Funding: RO1 from NIMH (awarded to B. Dosher)

Role: Graduate Student, Dept. of Cognitive Sciences, University of California, Irvine

Research Subject: Isolating Precision-Specific Effects in Single vs. Double Dimension Switch. We examined the influence of switching a single dimension relative to two dimensions in the transfer stage. Switching either dimension is believed to enlist different neural populations in early visual cortex, thereby eliciting equal amounts of specificity. However, we found that switching orientation in a shared location or switching both orientation and position yields greater specificity than switching positions with a shared orientation in the transfer stage.

Funding: 5R01EY017491-07 National Eye Institute, NIH (awarded to B. Dosher)

Role: Undergraduate Student, Psychology Department, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC

Research Subject: In an undergraduate Research Methods course under the guidance of Dr. Katherine Klein, I investigated the effects of stress on working memory. Participants completed a life stress questionnaire and an n-back task to measure impact on working memory. Results indicated that for participants faced with high stress conditions (e.g. death in the family), working memory was impacted in a negative way.

Teaching Experience Instructor, University of California, Irvine, CA

Introduction to Psychology, Psych 9C, Summer 2005 & 2006

Teaching Assistant, , University of California, Irvine, CA

Abnormal Psychology, Spring 2006

Sport Psychology, Winter 2006

Sensation & Perception, Spring 2004, Fall 2005

Research Methods, Fall 2004

Introduction to Psychology, Spring 2003, Winter 2004

Introduction to Memory, Fall 2003

Developmental Psychology, Winter 2003

High School Teacher, Triton High School, Erwin, NC

Marketing Education, 1994-1996

Professional Affiliations 2003-present Vision Sciences Society, Member

2003 Cognitive Neuroscience Society, Member

2006 American Psychological Society, Member

Service 2005-2007 Ask-A-Scientist Night, Hillview Middle School, CA

2006-2007 AIDS Lifecycle, Participant and Training Ride Leader

Miscellaneous 2008 Completed Ashtanga Yoga Teacher Training with Tim Miller

2006-present Ashtanga Yoga practitioner under the guidance of Diana Christinson