Ross Flom

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Ross Flom Assistant Professor Department of Psychology Brigham Young University 1044 SWKT Provo, Utah 84602 (801)422-1147 flom@byu.edu

Education

• BS, University of Minnesota, 1992 (Child Development)
• PhD, University of Minnesota, 1999 (Philosophy)

Research Interests

Significant advances have been made in our quest to understand how various organisms, including humans, attend to multimodal or multisensory properties of their environment. While the majority of these advances have been made at the cellular level, the basic question how this sensory flexibility develops from a behavioral perspective, has not been satisfactorily been answered. Specifically I am interested in examining how human infants learn to attend to those properties of an event that can be specified using multiple senses, e.g., things that are seen as well as heard, as well as infants’ ability to perceive modality specific information, e.g., color, in the presence of competing information. I am also interested in examining how early and/or impaired sensory experiences, i.e., prematurity of birth, blindness, hearing loss, etc. affects multisensory development in human infants.