{"id":55732,"date":"2012-06-18T23:00:57","date_gmt":"2012-06-19T03:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/?page_id=55732"},"modified":"2026-01-12T10:22:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T15:22:08","slug":"tenure-promotions-kahan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2012\/06\/18\/tenure-promotions-kahan\/","title":{"rendered":"Todd A. Kahan"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a> <\/strong>Professor of Psychology<\/strong><\/p>\n

Kahan is one of six Bates faculty members who have received tenure appointments or promotions that will take effect Aug. 1, 2012.\u00a0 (Read the story.<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n

<\/em>He is a cognitive psychologist whose research focuses on attention, perception, memory, language and the cognitive processing of visual features and objects.<\/p>\n

At Bates he has taught courses including \u201cCognitive Psychology,\u201d \u201cResearch Methodology\u201d and \u201cSensation and Perception.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kahan’s recent scholarly articles include “Are visual features of a looming or receding object processed in a capacity-free manner?” in\u00a0Consciousness and Cognition<\/em>; “An examination of orthographic and phonological processing using the task-choice procedure” in\u00a0Language and Cognitive Processes<\/em>; and “Object trimming: When masking dots alter rather than replace target representations” in\u00a0Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance<\/em>.<\/p>\n

In 2007 Kahan received the Charles F. and Evelyn M. Phillips Faculty Fellowship to be a visiting scholar at the University of British Columbia for a year. In 2001 he received a new-investigator award in experimental psychology from the American Psychological Association.<\/p>\n

He received a bachelor\u2019s degree in psychology from Syracuse University and a doctorate in cognitive psychology from the University at Albany, State University of New York.<\/p>\n

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