John (Jack) F. Shelley-Tremblay, Ph.D.

John (Jack) F. Shelley-Tremblay, Ph.D.

Chair of Department, Professor of Psychology, Adjunct Professor of Neurology
Department of Psychology

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Education

  • Ph.D. City University of New York 2003: Cognitive Neuroscience
  • M.A. New School for Social Research 1998: General Psychology
  • B.S. Colorado State University 1995: Psychology


Research Interests

  • Cognitive Remediation, TBI
  • Visual attention and reading processes
  • Visual training for persons with reading disabilities
  • Disordered visual processing
  • Health Psychology: Fibromyalgia
  • Neurobiology of Intimate Relationships

Founder and Coordinator of Psychophysiology Laboratory. Electrophysiological investigation of language and cognitive processes. Event-Related Potentials. Language and Cognition. biological and attentional basis of reading disabilities. Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience. Neuropsychological testing research and diagnosis. Psycholinguistics.

I am the director of the Experimental Event-related Potentials Laboratory. My research investigates the interaction between visual attention and reading processes. I have three current areas, employing psychophysiological, neuropsychological, and educational methodologies. One of my most promising directions combines my basic and applied research interests and involves visual training for persons with reading disability. I am fascinated by the possibility of understanding some of the contributories of disordered visual processing to reading disability, and to this end I have worked with my collaborators to develop novel approaches to assessment and intervention. I am using infra-red based eye tracking equipment to provide a quantitative record of eye movements and reading fluency, and correlating this information with comprehension and vocabulary levels.


Publications

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Journal Articles

  • Foran, L. G., Beverly, B. L., Shelley-Tremblay, J., & Estis, J. M. (2023). Can gesture input support toddlers’ fast mapping? Journal of Child Language, 50(3), 662–684.
  • Lawton, T., & Shelley-Tremblay, J. (2023). Case report: Neural timing deficits prevalent in developmental disorders, aging, and concussions remediated rapidly by movement discrimination exercises. Frontiers in Neurology, 14. https://doi.org/10.3389/fneur.2023.898781
  • Money-Nolan, E., & Shelley-Tremblay, J. (2023). Theories of semantic processing. The Routledge International Handbook of Psycholinguistic and Cognitive Processes, 160–178.
  • Mukherjee, B., Shelley-Tremblay, J. F., Barber, W. H., & Trepman, E. (2023). Burnout, Resilience, and Mindfulness in Healthcare Workers in a Medically Underserved Region during the COVID-19 Pandemic. Southern Medical Journal, 116(11), 888–896.
  • Shelley-Tremblay, J. (2023). Breakdown of semantics in aphasia and dementia: A role for attention? In The Routledge International Handbook of Psycholinguistic and Cognitive Processes (pp. 460–476). Routledge. https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781003204213-33/breakdown-semantics-aphasia-dementia-john-shelley-tremblay
  • Tannen, B., Karlin, E., Ciuffreda, K. J., Tannen, N., & Shelley-Tremblay, J. (2024). Distance horizontal fusional facility (DFF): A new diagnostic vergence test for the acquired brain injury (ABI) population. Journal of Optometry, 17(1), 100487. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.optom.2023.100487
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