Thomas F. Shipley

Thomas F. Shipley

Thomas F. Shipley is a member of the leadership group for the NSF funded Spatial Intelligence and Learning Center with expertise in object, motion and event perception and spatial and perceptual learning. With Philip Kellman he developed a model of object perception. He has extended this model to develop a geometric model of spatiotemporal segmentation and grouping. He has edited books on both object perception and event understanding.

Selected publications

  • Shipley, T.F. & Kellman, P. J. (Eds.) (2001). From Fragments to Objects: Segmentation and Grouping in Vision. Amsterdam, The Netherlands: Elsevier Science.
  • Shipley, T.F. (2003). The effect of object and event orientation on perception of biological motion. Psychological Science, 14, 377-380.
  • Shipley, T.F. & Kellman, P.J. (2003). Boundary completion in illusory contours: Interpolation or Extrapolation? Perception, 32, 985-1000.
  • Kellman, P. J., Garrigan, P., & Shipley, T. F. (2005). Object interpolation in three dimensions. Psychological Review, 112, 586-609.
  • Palmer, E. M., Kellman, P. J., & Shipley, T. F. (2006). A theory of dynamic occluded and illusory object perception. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 135, 513-541.
  • Shipley, T. F. & Zacks, J. (2008) Understanding Events: From Perception to Action. Edited book. Oxford University Press.
  • Marshall, P. J., & Shipley, T. F. (in press). Event-related potentials to point-light displays of human actions in 5-month-old infants. Developmental Neuropsychology.
  • Marshall, P., Bouquet, C., Shipley, T., & Young, T. (in press). Effects of brief imitative experience on EEG desynchronization during action observation. Neuropsychologia.