Chris Sims
Assistant Professor
Department of Psychology
Drexel University
United States of America
Biography
Chris Sims received a BS degree in computer science from Cornell University. Following his undergraduate studies, he enrolled in the cognitive science program at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, where he received his PhD in 2009. Chris held a post-doctoral research position at the University of Rochester before joining the faculty at Drexel University in 2013
Research Interest
Learning and decision-making under uncertainty; Visual memory and perceptual expertise; Sensorimotor control and motor learning; Computational models of cognition
Publications
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"Myers, C. W., Gray, W. D., & Sims, C. R. (2011). The insistence of vision: Why do people look at a salient stimulus when it signals target absence? Visual Cognition, 19(9) 1122–1157"
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Sims, C. R., Jacobs, R. A., & Knill, D. C. (2012). An ideal observer analysis of visual working memory. Psychological Review, 119(4),. 807–830
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"Sims, C. R., Neth, H., Jacobs, R. A., & Gray, W. D. (2013). Melioration as rational choice: Sequential decision making in uncertain environments. Psychological Review, 120(1), 139–154"
