Michael Anthony Crognale

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Dept. of Psychology /296 Phone: (775) 782-8690 (work) Citizenship: U.S.A.
University of Nevada, Reno (775) 746-4774 (home) FAX (775) 784-1126 Reno, NV 89557 e-mail: mikro@unr.edu; mikro@seeaero..com
Websites: http://wolfweb.unr.edu/~mikro/ , http://www.seeaero.com
Present Positions
Professor- Department of Psychology and Programs in Biomedical Engineering, University of Nevada at Reno, Reno, NV.
Owner/Manager -SeeAero Ltd., a vision and aviation consulting business.
Education
B.A .- 1982, Psychology, University of California, San Diego
Ph.D.- 1989, Biological Psychology, University of California, Santa Barbara
Research Experience
1998- Present Associate Professor, University of Nevada, Reno, Dept. of Psychology and the Biomedical Engineering Program
Human Learning in Aviation-Measurements of the efficacy of scenario based learning for pilot decision making.
Human Factors in Aviation- Quantification of pilot performance skills related to visibility and to aircraft control accidental flight into poor visibility. Evaluation of the uses of flight simulators during training for general aviation pilots.
Vision, Attention and Physiological Stress in Aviation- Studies of perceptual processes in the aviation environment and under physiological stressors such as high altitude and G loads.
Development and Aging of Vision.-Electrophysiological assessment of color/luminance processing. The aging research has special emphasis on acquired vision losses and the effects of nutritional supplements.
Evaluation of Parallel Processing Streams for Chromatic and Achromatic Patterns Using Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging- (with Drs. E.A. DeYoe and J. Neitz, Dept. of Cellular Biology and Anatomy, Medical College of Wisconsin).
Electrophysiological Assessment of Vision-VEP studies of parallel visual processing.
Comparative Color Vision- Studies of cone spectra and spectral sensitivity in various mammalian species, marine mammals, and sea turtles. (In collaboration with UCSD, Scripps Oceanographic Institute, HUBBS-Sea World, and WIDECAST).
Physiological Basis of Congenital and Acquired Color Vision Deficiencies- Studies examining pathology and genetics as causal factors in color vision variations.
1994-1998 Research Assistant Professor in the Dept. of Psychology, University of Washington, Seattle and the Dept. of Ophthalmology at Children’s Hospital and Medical Center.
Development of vision.-Psychophysical investigations of color vision and electrophysiological assessment of color/luminance processing in infants (with Dr. D.Y. Teller's lab group).
Genetics of Color Vision- Human electrophysiology and psychophysics to determine phenotype genotype relationships and the genetic basis for color vision variation among normal and color deficient observers (with Drs. S. Deeb and A. Motulsky, Dept. of Medical Genetics and Dr. D.Y. Teller, Dept. of Psychology).
Clinical Assessment of Development of Vision- An appointment in the Dept. of Ophthalmology at Children's Hospital- Clinical visual assessment in children using electrophysiology and psychophysics (with Dr. A. Weiss, Dept. of Ophthalmology).
M.A. Crognale 2
Plasticity and Evolution of Color Vision. Cortical and subcortical electrophysiology and behavior in a transgenic mouse model of primate color vision (with Drs. S. Deeb, G.H. Jacobs, and J. Olavarria, University of Washington and University of California, Santa Barbara).
Post-doctoral
1990-1994 Research Fellow with Anthony J. Adams and Eugene Switkes at the University of California, Berkeley
Human Electrophysiology- VEPs, ERGs, EOG
Psychophysics- Measurements of motion detection, chromatic/luminance processing, sensitivity, color vision.
Human Lens Densitometry -Measurement of individual variation in lens density.
Eye Movements- Measurements of optokinetic nystagmus for luminance/chromatic stimuli
Clinical Research- Electrophysiological investigations of diabetes, central serous choroidopathy, strabismus, anomalous trichromacy, dichromacy and monochromacy
1989-1990 Research Scientist with Gerald H. Jacobs at the University of California, Santa Barbara Animal Behavior- Color discrimination, flicker thresholds, spectral sensitivity
Animal Electrophysiology- Single unit recording, ERGs
Histology- radiolabeling with 2-deoxyglucose to locate chromatic cells in cortex and LGN
Human Electrophysiology- Flash and flicker ERGs for spectral sensitivity
Psychophysics- Color matching, spectral sensitivities, clinical color vision tests,
temporal sensitivity, flicker thresholds.
Pre-doctoral
1983-1989 Research Assistant with Gerald H. Jacobs at the University of California, Santa Barbara
Animal Electrophysiology- Single unit recording, ERGs
Animal Behavior- Color discrimination, spectral sensitivities, temporal response
Histology- Selective staining of short wavelength cone mosaic
Psychophysics- Color vision, sensitivity, temporal response
Human Electrophysiology- Flicker ERG for spectral sensitivity
1982-1983 Laboratory Assistant with Donald I. A. MacLeod and Mary Hayhoe at the University of California, San Diego
Psychophysics- Spatial spread of adaptation
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