Mark Holden, B.Sc.

E-mail: mholden@temple.edu

Lab Webpage: http://astro.temple.edu/~tshipley/

Bio: Mark is currently in his third year of graduate studies. He received his B.Sc. with a double-major in Biology and in Science Psychology from the University of Alberta, in Edmonton, Canada. Mark’s current research interests involve spatial memory and cognition.  Specifically, he is focusing on perceptual and conceptual segmentation of complex images into constituent pieces. 

Representative presentations and/or publications:

Memory for Location is Influenced by Part-Based Segmentation of Space. (2007). Mark P. Holden, Thomas F. Shipley & Nora S. Newcombe.  Poster presented at the 7th annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society.

Spatial Memory: Categorical and Metric Encoding of Location in Complex Scenes. (2007). Thomas F. Shipley, Mark P. Holden, Longin J. Latecki, Nora S. Newcombe & Shannon L. Fitzhugh.  Presentation at the 48th annual meeting of the Psychonomic Society.

Expanding the Scope of Hierarchical Models of Spatial Memory.  (2008).  Mark P. Holden, Thomas F. Shipley & Nora S. Newcombe.  Poster presented at the 1st annual meeting of the inter-Science of Learning Centers network.