Dr. Lauren F. V. Scharff  (lscharff@sfasu.edu) Course Information / Office Hours List of Publications / Presentations Research Interests Psychology Department Other Endeavors / Committees Interesting Links Professional Experience Scharff home / SFASU / WebCT Research Interests My major areas of research have included: Readability of Text Displays Readability and Usability of Websites Visual Search incorporating depth Critical Disparity Gradient for Stereopsis I also work with students on a wide variety of other topics (some theses and some independent projects): The Neural Mechanism for Sleep Initiation in the Mammalian Brain [.pdf format file] (Undergraduate Honors Thesis by Christopher Brown) Stereoscopic Semantic Activation Reveals Unconscious Influence on Word Stem Completion (abstract from Psychonomics Convention). (Masters Thesis: Lucas Cantu) Effects of Sleep Deprivation on Visual and Auditory Recognition Tasks (Undergraduate Research Project: Desiree Raidy) Neural Plasticity in the Central Nervous System (Independent research project paper by Jeff Cummins) Influence of Voting Convenience, Poll Point-spread, and Age on Reported Voting Behavior (Undergraduate Research Project: Rebecca Dryden) Mood and Memory (Masters Thesis: Phuong Nguyen) Developmental Issues in Readability (two studies published with graduate students) The influence of illustrations on children's preferences and comprehension Font size and style influences on text legibility for children Two studies of Cross-Modal Interactions between vision and audition Expanding Cross-Modal Research Using Auditory Glides and Stereoscopic Depth (Masters Thesis: Amy Wilkerson) Effects of Rhythmic Sound Rates on a Visual Counting Task (Undergraduate Research Project: Kristi Davis) An East Texas Regional Breastfeeding Survey (Undergraduate Psi Chi Project) A project investigating Visual Aging and Resources Available for the Elderly (Undergraduate Research Project: Donia Nolan)   [Return to the top] [Scharff Home Page] [Psy Dept.] [SFASU]