Address:
THOMAS BIDDLE PERERA Ph.D.
Department of Psychology
Montclair State University
email:
pererat(type the @ symbol here)mail.montclair.edu
Alternate email:
tom(type the @ symbol here)w1tp.com
Education: (Psychology)
Columbia University: Ph. D. 1968
Columbia University: M. A. 1963
Columbia College: A. B. 1961
Certified/Licensed by the States of New York and Vermont
as a Psychologist: General, Experimental, and Clinical Psychology.
Experience:
Montclair State University - Department of Psychology
Professor Emeritus. 2002
Head of the Experimental Psychology Program. 1982 - Present
Professor: Department of Psychology. 1980 - Present
Director: Psychophysiology Laboratory. 1975 - Present
Associate Professor: Department of Psychology. 1975 - 1980
Barnard College - Columbia University
Consultant: Psychology Department. 1975 - Present
Assistant Professor: Department of Psychology. 1968 - 1975
Instructor: Department of Psychology. 1966 - 1968
Columbia University
Project Director/Consultant: Psychophysics Lab. 1974 - Present
(NASA Grant NSG-1115)
Senior Research Scientist: (NYS Psychiatric 1968 - 1971
Institute. NIH Grant MH-03660)
Research Scientist: (NYS Psychiatric 1964 - 1968
Institute. NIH Grant MH-03660)
Manager: Electropsychology Laboratory 1963 - 1967
(NIH Grant M-2961)
Research Assistant: Electropsychology Lab. 1961 - 1963
(NIH Grant M-2961)
Teaching Assistant: Department of Psychology 1963 - 1966
Undergraduate Teaching Assistant: (Psychology) 1960 - 1961
Research:
Thirty Five Years of Federal, State, University, and Foundation Grant
Supported Research in the Following Areas:
Writing and Development of Computers in Curricula software Packages.
Rewriting Computers in Curricula Software Packages for new computers.
Design and Construction of Instructional Microcomputer Systems.
Invention of New Types of Microcomputer Interfacing Techniques.
Design and Implimentation of Computerized Instructional Laboratories.
Writing of Modular Tutorial Curricular Materials.
Psychophysiology, Psychophysics, and Experimental Psychology.
Director of the fully-computerized Montclair State University
Psychophysiology laboratory.
Director of the Computer Center of the School of Humanities and
Social Sciences at Montclair State University.
Publications:
103 Publications Including Articles, Software, Tutorials, etc.
33 Professional Papers Presented at National Conventions.
Series of 27 Modular Instructional Software Packages.
Used by over 90% of the Colleges and Universities, Worldwide.
Second Edition: Translated for New Computer Architecture.
Third Edition: Translated for New Computer Architecture.
Series of 20 Modular, Multi-Media Instructional Tutorials.
In use by over 800 Colleges and Universities, Worldwide.
10 Journal Articles on microcomputer Applications.
22 Professional Papers on Microcomputer Applications.
Numerous Other Psychological Articles.
Articles outside of the field of Psychology.
Masters Thesis Research: Columbia University Graduate School.
Proprioceptive discrimination of a covert operant without its
observation by the subject (Supervised research under the
direction of Dr. Ralph Hefferline). Published in Science,
1963, 139, No. 3557, 834-835.
Doctoral Dissertation: Columbia University Graduate School.
An experimental analysis of agonistic and antagonistic pre-overt
muscle responses during human escape-avoidance conditioning.
Committee: Dr. Ralph Hefferline Columbia University (Chair)
Dr. Herbert Terrace Columbia University
Dr. Samuel Sutton Columbia University
Dr. Daniel Ehrlich Columbia University
Dr. Lewis Petrinovich SUNY Stony Brook
Research Laboratory:
Director and Founder:
Montclair State University Psychophysiology Laboratory.
The Psychophysiology Laboratory is a private laboratory at
Montclair State University. It is supported by grants and
contributions and is dedicated to research on the electrical
activity of the human nervous system as it relates to higher
mental processes and cognition.
The laboratory has its own general purpose digital computers
with additional hardware and software for on-line and off-line
analysis of eight channels of analog psychophysiological data.
Complete signal conditioning and programming facilities permit
the recording of virtually all types of psychophysiological
responses as well as the programming of intricate experimental
conditions. Recording facilities include a seven channel F.M.
tape recorder and permit long-term storage and retrieval of
experimental data.
Students from the Psychology Department, as well as other
departments in the University, participate in performing research
and the computer facilities are available to the rest of the
university when they are not being used for psychophysiological
research.
Research Experience and Skills:
Design and instrumentation of experiments in psychophysiology,
psychophysics, physiological psychology, learning, and
perception.
Electrophysiological recording and analysis techniques.
General animal surgical stereotaxic implant and lesion procedures.
Computer programming using machine language and a wide variety
of higher level programming and process control languages.
Planning, purchase, and utilization of five large and
medium size I.B.M. and D.E.C. computer installations and
several hundred microcomputer installations for on-line
and off-line analysis of operant & psychophysiological data.
Electronic, electromechanical, and mechanical instrumentation
design, construction, utilization, and maintenance.
Research in Progress:
The design of microcomputerized psychological laboratory
instrumentation and software.
Psychophysical scaling of annoyance.
Psychophysical scaling of the effects of noise on humans.
Peripheral gating of pain responses in humans.
Analysis of covert muscle responses during human conditioning.
Concurrent recording of operants and respondents in humans.
The use of biofeedback to permit voluntary control of covert
skeletal and autonomic behavior.
Biofeedback-enhanced relaxation in humans.
Teaching:
35 Years of Undergraduate and Graduate Teaching Experience
Including: Teaching Courses in Most Experimentally-
oriented areas of Psychology.
Supervision of Graduate Masters and Doctoral Research.
Supervision of Undergraduate and Honors Research.
Head of the Montclair State University Psychology Department's
Experimental Psychology Program.
Director of the Faculty Development Grant Program - Computer
Literacy.
Miscelaneous:
Memberships in 9 Professional and Honorary Societies.
Listings in 5 "Who's Who" Publications including Frontier
Science and Technology, and Aviation and Aerospace.
Numerous Consultantships in Computerized Curricula.
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