Alexandra List

Associate Professor of Psychology

Areas of Study

Name

Psychology

Name

Neuroscience

Contact

Phone

315-859-4308

Email Address

alist@hamilton.edu

Website

website

Location

Taylor Science Center 3059, lab 3045

Alexandra List received a National Institutes of Health National Research Service Award for both her doctoral and post-doctoral research. List's research has focused on understanding how we perceive and attend to visual, auditory and haptic information in our environment. She uses a variety of human cognitive neuroscience techniques. Her work has been published in various journals, including Cognition, Brain, the Journal of Vision, Neuropsychologia and the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance. She earned her bachelor's degree in cognitive science and doctorate in psychology at the University of California, Berkeley.

Recent Courses Taught

Fundamentals of Human Neuroscience
Cognitive Neuroscience Lab
Introduction to Psychology
Sensation and Perception

Distinctions

Hamilton College Class of 1966 Career Development Award, 2014
National Institutes of Health, NINDS, Ruth L. Kirchstein National Research Service Award, individual post-doctoral fellowship, 2007-10
Brain Travel Fellowship, Cognitive Neuroscience Society, 2009
Brain Travel Fellowship, European Workshop on Cognitive Neuropsychology, 2008
Veterans’ Affairs, Special Contribution Award, 2006
National Institutes of Health, NINDS, Ruth L. Kirchstein National Research Service Award, individual pre-doctoral fellowship, 2004-06
Fellow, Summer Institute in Cognitive Neuroscience, Dartmouth College, 2005
National Institutes of Health, Human Cognitive Neuroscience Training Fellowship, 2001-03
National Science Foundation, Graduate Student Research Fellowship Honorable Mention, 2001
National Science Foundation Travel Fellowship, The 31st Carnegie Mellon University Symposium on Cognition, “Perceptual Organization in Vision: Behavioral and Neural Perspectives," 2000

Selected Publications

List, A., Rosenberg, M.D., Sherman, A., Esterman, M. (2017) Pattern classification of EEG signals reveals perceptual and attentional states. PLOS ONE, doi:10.1371/JOURNAL.PONE.0176349
List, A., Iordanescu, L., Grabowecky, M., & Suzuki, S. (2014). Haptic guidance of overt visual attention. Attention, Perception & Psychophysics, 76, 2221-2228. doi: 10.3758/s13414-014-0696-1
List, A, Grabowecky, M., & Suzuki, S. (2013). Local and global level-priming occurs for hierarchical stimuli composed of outlined, but not filled-in, elements. Journal of Vision, 13(2): 23. doi:10.1167/13.2.23
Bultitude, J. H., List, A., & Aimola Davies, A. M. (2013). Prism adaptation does not alter object-based attention in healthy participants. F1000Research, 2, 232. doi:10.12688/f1000research.2-232.v1
Van der Stigchel, S., van Koningsbruggen, M., Nijboer, T., List, A., & Rafal, R. D. (2012). The role of the frontal eye fields in the oculomotor inhibition of reflexive saccades: Evidence from lesion patients. Neuropsychologia, 50(1), 198-203. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2011.11.020

List, A., & Justus, T. (2010). Relative priming of temporal local-global levels in auditory hierarchical stimuli. Attention, Perception & Psychophysics, 72, 193-208. doi:10.3758/APP.72.1.193
Bultitude, J., Rafal, R.D., & List, A. (2009). Prism adaptation reverses the local processing bias in patients with right temporo-parietal junction lesions. Brain, 132, 1669-1677. doi: 10.1093/brain/awp096
List, A., Brooks, J.L., Esterman, M., Flevaris, A., Landau, A.N., Bowman, G., Stanton, V., VanVleet, T., Robertson L.C., & Schendel, K.L.P. (2008). Visual hemispatial neglect, reassessed. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, 14, 243-256. doi: 10.1017/S1355617708080284
Albrecht, A., List, A., & Robertson, L.C. (2008). Attentional selection and the representation of holes and objects. Journal of Vision, 8(13):8, 1–10. doi: 10.1167/8.13.8
List, A., & Robertson, L.C. (2007). Inhibition of return and object-based attentional orienting. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception & Performance, 33, 1322-1334. doi: 10.1037/0096-1523.33.6.1322
List, A., & Justus, T. (2007). Auditory priming of frequency and temporal information: Effects of lateralized presentation. Laterality, 12, 507-535. doi: 10.1080/13576500701566727
List, A., Justus, T., Robertson, L.C., & Bentin, S. (2007). A mismatch negativity study of local-global auditory processing. Brain Research, 1153, 122-133. doi: 10.1016/j.brainres.2007.03.040
List, A. (2006). Reviewers' reports should in turn be peer-reviewed. Nature (Correspondence), 442, 26. doi: 10.1038/442026a
List, A., & Landau, A. (2006). Attention and intention, decoded! Journal of Neuroscience (Journal Club), 26, 6907-6908
Brooks, J. L., & List, A. (2006). Searching for a role for the frontal eye fields in the visual attention network. Journal of Neuroscience (Journal Club), 26, 2145-2146
Justus, T., & List, A. (2005). Auditory attention to frequency and time: An analogy to visual local-global stimuli. Cognition, 98, 31-51.
List, A.*, Landau, A.N.*, Brooks, J.L., Flevaris, A., Fortenbaugh, F., Esterman, M., VanVleet, T., Albrecht, A., Alvarez, B., Robertson L.C., & Schendel, K.L.P. (2011). Shifting attention in viewer- and object-based reference frames after unilateral brain injury. (* equal contributors) Neuropsychologia, 49(7), 2090-2096. doi: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2011.04.003

Professional Affiliations

Cognitive Neuroscience Society
Society for Neuroscience
Vision Sciences Society
Psychonomic Society
Sigma Xi
AAUW
Faculty for Undergraduate Neuroscience

Appointed to the Faculty

2013

Educational Background

Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
B.A., University of California, Berkeley