I received a PhD in psychology from the Graduate Faculty of the New School for Social Research in New York City.  My dissertation was on the perception of motion, specifically on a visual illusion called induced motion.  An example of this illusion is that the moon seems to move opposite the direction of surrounding clouds.  I am still interested in perception  and have developed a freehand method of creating stereoscopic pictures.   I am planning an experiment on  perception when there is a mismatch between eye and hand.  Recently, I have developed an interest in drug tolerance did an unpublished experiment on learning and homeostasis, specifically on learning to mitigate the effects of caffeine.  Caffeine makes us salivate, which generates a homeostatic response that reduces salivation.  Through Pavlovian conditioning, coffee drinkers associate the smell and taste of coffee with increased salivation and generate a drug-opposite response--their mouths dry up.  When drinking caffeinated coffee, they salivate less than non-coffee drinkers and when drinking decaf, they salivate less than baseline.

Research

• Drugs and learning, visual perception, web site usability

Projects

• Athletic conditioning and Pavlovian conditioning; Drug overdoses; how people use and understand web sites
• P. Schulman (1991). A freehand method for drawing stereoscopic pictures. Perceptual and Motor Skills, 73, 215-218.
• P. Schulman (August, 1984). Food aversions and cravings during pregnancy. Paper presented at American Psychological Association meeting, Toronto.
• J. Bacon, A. Gordon, and P. Schulman (1982). The effect of two types of induced-motion displays on perceived location of the induced target. Perception and Psychophysics, 32, 353-359.

Presentations

• Drug tolerance and overdoses - any group interested in drugs and their treatment Visual perception Usability: web designers, businesses