PERSONAL RESUME April 4, 2001
NAME: Dan Jacob Swift

Office - Department of Behavioral Sciences
The University of Michigan - Dearborn
Dearborn, MI 48128 (3l3) 593-5520
dswift@umich.edu

EDUCATION:

1971 B.S. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

1975 M.A. University of New Hampshire (UNH)

1977 Ph.D. University of New Hampshire
Dissertation Topic: The Effects of Context, Word Frequency, and Internal Redundancy in Reading and Word Perception.
Dissertation Advisor: Prof. John Limber

HONORS, AWARDS AND GRANTS:

1968 Received Claire Morton Prince Hankds Awardfor scholarly achievement, MIT

1977 Awarded a Dissertation Year Fellowship from the Graduate School, UNH

1981 Original Co-Principal Investigator for 3-year, $300,000 research grant from AFOSR entitled "Enhanced Detection of Low-Frequency Targets"

1983 Awarded a Campus Grant for $450 for project entitled "Visual Perception"

1984 Awarded a Campus Grant (with Prof. D. Jones) for $775 for project entitled "A Semi-Naturalistic Study of Early Childhood Memory"

1984 Consultant on 18-month project for Air Force Office of Sponsored Research entitled "Hypotheses Linking Threshold and Superthreshold Phenomena"

1984 J.P. Guilford Research Award (Honorable Mention) from Psi Chi, the National Honor Society in Psychology

1987 Awarded a UM-D Campus Grant for study on After-images and non-linearities

1996 Awarded a UM-D Campus Grant entitled ?Time Course for Perceptual Integration?

1998 Awarded a UM-D Campus Grant entitled ?Temproal Integration with Random-Dot Stereograms?

RELEVANT EMPLOYMENT:

1968-70 Computer Programmer (summers) Western Electric Co., Newark, N.J.

1971-72 Teaching Assistant to Dr. H.L. Teuber, MIT

1971-72 Research Assistant to Dr. David Ingle, McLean Hospital, Belmont, Mass.

1972-75 Teaching Assistant, UNH

1973-75 Statistical Consultant, (summers) College of Liberal Arts, UNH

1976-80 Lecturer, UNH

1977-80 Post-Doctoral Research Associate with Prof. Robert A. Smith, UNH

1980-81 Assistant Professor of Psychology, UNH

1981-86 Assistant Professor of Psychology, The University of Michigan - Dearborn

1982-87 Research Consultant forVision Research Laboratory of New Hampshire

1986- present Associate Professor of Psychology, The University of Michigan - (on leave 1989-1991)

1989-1991 Research Associate Professor of Psychology, University of New Hampshire

SELECTED TEACHING EXPERIENCE:

1971-72 Introductory Psychology, MIT (taught a weekly recitation section)

1974-79 Introductory Psychology, UNH
Perception, Language and Thought (two semesters - middle level survey course)
Cognition UNH (upper-level core course)
Introduction to Statistics and Methodology UNH (a total of five semesters)
Child Behavior UNH (middle-level survey course)

1981- present Introduction to Psychology as a Natural Science,
Statistics and Methodology,
Sensation/Perception,
Human Information Processing,
Psychology of Language
Experimental Psychology
Honors Seminar
Human Factors Psychology

PRESENTATIONS AND INVITED PAPERS:

Swift, D.J. Word Frequency, word length, and some different effects with a non-simultaneous matching task. Presented to the Eastern Psychological Association, 1977.

Smith, R.A. and Swift, D.J. Simultaneous masking and the bandpass of spatial-frequency channels. Presented to the Association for Research in Vision and Opthalmology (ARVO), May,
1978.

Swift, D.J. The effect of sentence context on word perception. Presented to Eastern Psychological Association, 1978.

Panish, S. and Swift, D.J. Forced-choice analysis of the spatial-frequency shift. Presented at EPA, 1979.

Swift, D.J., Smith, R. A., and Panish, S. Spatial-frequency adaptation and psychophysical method. Presented to the American Psychological Association, September 1979.

Panish, S., Smith, R. A., and Swift, D. J. Low-frequency masking of spatial frequency gratings. Presented to the Optical Society of America, October, 1979.

Swift, D.J. Spatial-frequency making: Do deviations from Weber's Law reflect genuine system non-linearities? Invited paper at Vision/Hearing colloquium, The University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, March 1983.

Swift, D.J. Spatial-frequency channels of "Do we have holograms inside our heads?" Behavioral Science faculty colloquium, The University of Michigan - Dearborn, March 1983.

Swift, D.J. Spatial-frequency adaptation. Invited presentation at The University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, October, 1983.

Swift, D.J. Adaptation with amplitude-modulated gratings. Invited presentation at The University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, October 25, 1984.

Swift, D.J. Visual system non-linearities. The University of New Hampshire, January 20, 1985.
Swift, D.J. Adaptation to AM gratings: Evidence for a compressive non-linearity. The University of Michigan - Ann Arbor April 25, 1985.

Swift, D.J. Apparent interactions between adjacent spatial-frequency channels. Presented at The University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, September 19, 1985.

Swift, D.J., Smith, R.A. and Panish, S. The functional significance of the Spatio-Temporal Line-Increment Function. Presented at the 1986 Annual Meeting of the Optical Society,
Seattle, Wa.

Swift, D.J. Nonlinearities and negative afterimages. Presented at the annual meeting of the Optical Society of America, l987, Rochester, NY.

Swift, D.J. Aspects of computational vision. Invited presentation, University of New Hampshire, February 25, 1988.

Swift, D.J. Nonlinearities in AM gratings and negative afterimages. Presented to the Visual Science Program, Stanford Research Institute, Menlo Park, Ca, March 10, 1988.

Swift, D.J. A new stimullus for contrast detection .Presented to the annual meeting of the Association for Research in Vision and Opthalmology, 1988, Sarasota, Florida.

Swift, Dan J. and Smith Robert A. What will fuse? post-deadline poster at OSA, October 1989.

SMITH, Robert A. & Swift, Dan J. Mapping the fine-grain sensitivity of the parafoveal retina. to be presented to ARVO, May 1990.

Swift, Dan J. Encoding for stereoscopic depth determine from perceived disparity shift. to be presented to ARVO, May 1990.

Swift, D. & Smith, R. Extended linearized gray scale with a CRT monitor. presented at the 1992 annual convention of the Optical Society of America in Albuquerque.

Swift, D. Temporal integration and Visual persistence with different types of objects, presented to the Vision Group at the University of New Hampshire, December 1998. (also presented as invited lecture at the University of Houston, February 27, 1999).

Swift, D. (2000) VisionWorks: A hardware-independent, menu-driven experimental
workstation for visual perception. Invited talk presented at the annual meeting of the Optical Society of America, October 2000, Providence, RI.

Swift, D. (2001) Visual/Auditory Synesthesia--a New Look. Invited talk at the University of New Hampshire, March 2001.

PUBLISHED AND CITABLE ABSTRACTS:

Swift, D.J. and Limber, J. (1976) Effect of speech fragments on the perception of a phonetically ambiguous word. J. of the Acoustical Society of America, 59, Suppl. No. l, S40.

Swift, D.J. & Smith, R.A.(1978) Adpating modulation and channel bandwidth. Journal of the Optical Society of America, 68, 1380.

Swift, D.J. & Smith, R.A. (l979) Does adpatation involve twomechanisms? Supplement to Investigative Ophthalmology, 20, 93.

Swift, D.J., Smith, R.A. and Panish, S. (1979) A new technique of sub-threshold activity. Journal of the Optical Society of America, 69, l444.

Swift, D.J., Smith, R.A. & Panish, S. (l980) Adaptation and the tuning of motion sensitive channels. Supplement to Investigative Ophthalmology, 21, l05.

Swift, D.J. & Smith, R.A. (1981) Detection criteria in spatial-frequency masking. Supplement to Investigative Ophthalmology, 22, 123.

Swift, D.J. & Norcia, A.M (1982). Minimal condition for size discrimination: Discrimination based solely on phase spectra. Supplement to Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science, 23, 271.

Arend, L., Smith, R. & Swift, D.J. (1982) The application of Birdsall's theorem to spatial-frequency masking. Supplement to Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science, 23, 48.

Swift, D.J. & Panish, S. (l983) Interactions among stimulus dimensions. Supplment to Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science, 24, 94.

Panish, S. & Swift, D.J. (l983) Velocity sensitivity of the spatial-frequency shift. Supplement to Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science, 24, 94.

Swift, D.J. & Smith, R.A. (l984) Adaptation with Amplitude-modulated gratings. Journal of the Optical Society of America, A, l, l30l.

Swift, D.J. & Smith, R.A. (l985) Adaptation to contrast-modulated gratings: Evidence for a compressive non-linearity. Supplement to Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science, 26, l39.

Swift, D.J. and Smith, R.A. (l985) Adaptation to composite gratings: Interaction or artifact? Optics News, ll, 125.

Smith, R.A. & Swift, D. (1991) Summation areas for equiluminant spots. Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science, 32, 1273.

Swift, D., Smith, R.A. & Panish, S. (1991) A comparison of quantitative measures of stereo ability. Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science, 32, 709.

Cobo-Lewis, A. B., Panish, S. C., & Swift, D. J. (1995). Monocular dot-density cues in random-dot stereograms. Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science, 36(4), S364.

Swift, D. (1998). Temporal integration and Visual persistence with different types of objects. Perception, 27, 52-53.

PUBLISHED ARTICLES

Swift, D.J. & Smith, R.A. (l982) An action spectrum for spatial-frequency adaptation. Vision Research, 22, 235-246.

Panish, S.C., Swift, D.J. & Smith, R.A. (l983) Two-criterion threshold techniques: Evidence for separate spatial and temporal mechanisms. Vision Research, 23, l5l9-l525.

Swift, D.J. & Smith, R.A. (l983) Spatial-frequency masking and Weber's Law, Vision Research, , 23, 495-505.

Swift, D.J. & Smith, R.A. (l984) An inherent non-linearity in near-threshold contrast detection. Vision Research, 24, 977-78.

Smith, R.A. & Swift, D.J. (l985) Spatial-frequency masking and Birdsall's theorem. Journal of the Optical Society of America A, 2, l593-l599.

Jones, D. C., Swift, D. J.. and Johnson, M. (1988) Nondeliberate memory for a novel event among preschoolers. Developmental Psychology,24, 64l - 645.

Swift, Dan; Panish, Steven; Hippensteel, Betsy (1997). The use of VisionWorks in visual psychophysics research. Spatial Vision, 10, 471-477.

Swift, D. (1998). Temporal integration and Visual persistence with different types of objects. Perception, 27, 52.

Swift, D. (1999) Technical report on VisionWorks. Insight: The Visual Performance Group Newsletter, 21, 4-6.

SELECTED PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:

1981-83 Served on two dissertation committees, UNH

1982-85 Advisor to the UM-D Chapter of Psi Chi, the National Student Honor Society in Psychology

1982-87 Member of UM-D Scholarship Committee (Chair from 1985-87).

1983 Member and Secretary of FACCA, Faculty Advisory Committee to Chancellor

1983 Member of Computer Advisory Committee

1983 Advisor to Psychology Concentrators

1984 Organized (with Prof. Francis Wayman) a Symposium on Peace and Security in the Nuclear Age.

1984 Attended a two-day seminar on SPSS (Statistical Package for the Social Sciences) for the IBM PC in Washington, D.C.

1984-85 Member of University Advisory Committee on Academic Freedom and Moral Responsibility

1985 Gave short course for CASL faculty on SPSS

1985-86 Discipline Coordinator for Psychology

1985-88 Member of Behavioral Sciences Executive Committee
1995-

1985 Reviewer for J. of the Optical Society of America

1986-89 Member of CASL Executive Committee
1996-98

1990 Reviewer for Vision Research

1992 Reviewer for Perception & Pscychophysics

1998 Reviewer for Perceptual and Motor Skills

1983- Co-Director of the Psychology Honors Program