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Raja Parasuraman, Ph.D., Director of the Cognitive Science Laboratory, is Professor of Psychology at The Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. He received a B.Sc. (1st Class Honors) in Electrical Engineering from Imperial College, University of London, U.K. (1972) and an M.Sc. in Applied Psychology (1973) and a Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of Aston, Birmingham, U.K. (1976). Before coming to the U.S. in 1978, he taught for two years at colleges in the U.K. From 1978 to 1982 he was a research fellow at the University of California, Los Angeles. Since that time Dr. Parasuraman has been at The Catholic University of America, where he has served as Associate Professor (1982), with tenure (1984), and as Full Professor (1986).
Dr. Parasuraman has carried out research on attention, aging, automation, aviation and air traffic control, event-related brain potentials, functional brain imaging, signal detection, vigilance, and workload. His research in these areas has been supported by several federal agencies, including the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the U.S. Navy, as well as by private foundations. His books include The Psychology of Vigilance (Academic Press, 1982), Varieties of Attention (Academic Press, 1984), Event-Related Brain Potentials (Oxford University Press, 1990), Automation and Human Performance (Erlbaum, 1996), and The Attentive Brain (MIT Press, 1998).
Dr. Parasuraman was Chair of the Human Performance and Cognition Study Section for the NASA Neurolab Mission in 1995, served as a member of the Human Development and Aging Study Section of NIH from 1992 to 1995, and was a member of the National Research Council's Panel on Human Factors in Air-Traffic Control Automation from 1994 to 1998. He is currently serving as a member of the National Research Council's Committee on Human Factors.
Dr. Parasuraman was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1994), the American Psychological Association (1991), the American Psychological Society (1991), and the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (1994).
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