Thomas G. Fikes Department of Psychology Westmont College 955 La Paz Road Santa Barbara, CA 93108-1099 805.565.6115 (voice) 805.565.6116 (fax) fikes@westmont.edu http://homepage.westmont.edu/fikes/

Professor Fikes joined the faculty at Westmont College in 1998 as a member of the Psychology Department. His general interests in psychology include the cognitive and behavioral neurosciences, mathematical modeling of psychological and biological processes, and sensory and motor psychophysics. His current research projects involve human, animal, and computational work on the role of the basal ganglia in implicit learning and perceptual categorization and the control of reaching toward visually presented targets. His educational background includes a B.A. in Psychology from California State University, Fresno, in 1987; a Ph. D. in Psychology (Human Information Processing emphasis) from the University of California, Santa Barbara, in 1993; and postdoctoral training in mathematical modeling and cognitive science at Indiana University.

Professor Fikes teaches the following courses at Westmont College: Physiological Psychology, Sensation and Perception, History and Systems, Topics in the Cognitive and Behavioral Neurosciences, and General Psychology.

Selected Publications:

Fikes, T. G., & Townsend, J. T. (1995). Moving models of motion forward: Explication and a new concept. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 18, 751-753.

Klatzky, R.L., Fikes, T.G., & Pellegrino, J.W. (1995). Planning for hand shape and arm transport when reaching for objects. Acta Psychologica, 88, 209-232.

Fikes, T. G., Klatzky, R. L., & Lederman, S. J (1994). Effects of object texture on pre-contact movement time in human prehension. Journal of Motor Behavior, 26(4), 325-332.

Fikes, T. G. (1993). System Architecture Analysis for Reaching and Grasping. Unpublished Doctoral Dissertation, Department of Psychology, University of California, Santa Barbara.