Louise Hainline Department of Psychology Brooklyn College of CUNY 2900 Bedford Avenue Brooklyn, New York 11210-2889 Phone: 718-951-5610 FAX: 718-951-4825 Email: Louiseh@brooklyn.cuny.edu

Current Positions:  

• Broeklundian Professor of Psychology, Brooklyn College of CUNY 

• Professor, Doctoral Programs in Experimental Psychology and Developmental Psychology, Graduate Center of  CUNY 

• Director, Brooklyn College Infant Study Center

• Co-Director, Brooklyn College Applied Vision Institute

• Co-Director, CUNY Applied Science Coordinating Institute, Center for Applied Biomedicine and Biotechnology and  Director of Neuroscience Division

• Director, Brooklyn College Science Education Consortium

• Director, Brooklyn College Minority Access to Research Careers Program

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Education: 

• Brown University, 1969, A.B. magna cum laude with honors in Psychology

• Harvard University, 1971, M.A., Social and Personality Psychology (Dept. of Social     Relations)

• Harvard University, 1973, Ph.D, Developmental Psychology with minor in Cultural Anthropology (Dept. of Social Relations)

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Research Interests:

• Sensory and perceptual development in infants, including visual information processing, pattern perception, spatial, and color vision

• Neuro-physiological development of the visual system, both normal and abnormal

• Methods for vision screening in infants and young children

• The development of eye movement control and the use of eye movements as indicators of visual performance

• Visual constraints on perceptual, cognitive, and social development 

• Visual processing in dyslexia and other visually-mediated learning disorders

• Human factors research on vision, image processing, and the presentation of images in visual displays, particularly in medical imaging applications

• Implications of psychological research in education and pedagogy, particularly in higher education

The Infant Study Center/Applied Vision Institute laboratories are well-equipped with numerous networked computers, several eye trackers and computer-driven visual stimulus generators, equipment for measuring infant refraction, accommodation, and vergence, and systems for recording visual evoked potentials.  Further information on some of the on-going projects can be found at the websites for the Brooklyn College Infant Study Center  and the Applied Vision Institute.

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Teaching:  

• Experimental Research Methods and Design (Graduate)

• Developmental Psychology (Graduate)

• Development in Infancy (Graduate)

• Perceptual Development (Graduate)

• Developmental Psychology (Undergraduate)

• Seminar and Practicum on Teaching Psychology (Graduate)

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Selected recent (last 5 years) and representative earlier publications:

Hartmann, E.E., Dobson, V., Hainline, L., Marsh-Tootle, W., Quinn, G.E., Ruttam, M.S., Schmidt, P.P. and Simons, K. (2000) Preschool vision screening: Summary of a task force report. Pediatrics, 106, 1105-1112.

Hall, E.C., Gordon, J., Hainline, L., Abramov, I, and Engber, K. (2000) Childhood visual experience affects adult voluntary ocular motor control. Optometry and Vision Science. 77, 511-523.

Hainline, L. (2000) Teaching in a university setting: A course for teaching assistants. In L.R. Prieto and S.A. Meyers (Eds.) The Teaching Assistant Handbook: How to Prepare TA’s for Their Responsibilities. New Forums Press: Stillwater, OK.

Abel, L.A., Hall, E.C., Gordon, J., Hainline, L. and Abramov, I. (2000) Nystagmus waveforms in blindness. Visual Impairment Research, 2, 65-73.

Hainline, L. (2000) Development of accommodation and vergence in infancy. H. Richter (Ed.) Vergence and Accommodation. Proceedings of Wenner-Gren International Vision Conference. London: Blackwell.

Maternal and Child Health Bureau/National Eye Institute Task Force on Preschool Vision Screening Steering Committee (Hartmann, G., Dobson, V., Hainline, L., Marsh-Tootle, W., Quinn, G.E, and Ruttum, M.S.) (1999) Summary Statement. Vision Screening in the Preschool Child. Washington, DC: U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services.

Hainline, L. (1998) The development of basic visual abilities. Ch 1 in A. Slater (Ed.) Perceptual Development: Visual, Auditory and Speech Perception in Infancy. Sussex: Psychology Press, 1-50.

Hainline, L. (1998) Eye movements, attention and development. Ch. 5 in J.R. Richards (Ed.) Developmental Neuroscience and Attention. Erlbaum, 163-178.

Hainline, L. and Abramov, I. (1997) Eye-movement based measures of development of spatial contrast sensitivity in infant. Optometry and Visual Science, 74, 790-799.

Riddell, P.M., Ladenheim, B, Mast, J., Catalano, T., Nobile, R, and Hainline, L. (1997) Comparison of methods of visual acuity in infants: Teller Acuity Cards and sweep visual evoked potentials. Optometry and Vision Science, 74, 702-707.

Hainline, L. and Riddell, P.M. (1996) Eye alignment and convergence in young infants. in F.Vital-Durand, J. Atkinson, and O. Braddick (Eds.) Infant Vision. Oxford U. Press., 221-248.

Hainline, L. and Riddell, P.M. (1995) Binocular alignment and vergence in early infancy. Vision Research, 35, 3229-3236.

Hainline, L. and Krinsky-McHale, S. (1994) Helping while hurting?: The environment of the neonatal intensive care unit, Children's Environments, 11, 105-122

Riddell, P.M., Hainline, L., Grose-Fifer, J. and Abramov, I. (1994) Calibration of the Hirschberg test in human infants, Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science, 35, 538-543.

Hainline, L. (1993) Conjugate eye movements in infants. in K. Simons (Ed.) Early Visual Development, Normal and Abnormal. Oxford University Press, 47-79.

Hainline, L. and Abramov, I. (1992) Assessing visual development: Is infant vision good enough? in C. Rovee-Collier and L.P. Lipsitt (Eds.) Advances in Infancy Research, Vol 7. Norwood, N.J.: Ablex., 30-102.

Abramov, I., Hainline, L. and Duckman, R. (1990) Screening infant vision with paraxial photorefraction. Optometry and Vision Science, 67, 538-545.

Hainline, L. and Abramov, I. (1985) Environmental phototoxicity in the neonatal intensive care unit. Intraocular Insights, 1, 1_3.

Abramov, I., Hainline, L., Lemerise, E., and Brown, A.K. (1985) Changes in visual functions of children exposed as infants to prolonged illumination. Journal of the American Optometric Association, 56, 614_619.

Hainline, L. and Lemerise, E. (1985) Corneal reflection eye movement recording as a measure of infant pattern perception: what do we really know? British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 3, 229_242. reprinted in Infancy, G.E. Butterworth and P.L. Harris (eds.), London: British Psychological Society.

Abramov, I., Hainline, L., Turkel, J., Lemerise, E., Smith, H., Gordon, J., and Petry, S. (1984) Rocket_ship psychophysics: assessing visual functioning in children. Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science, 25, 1307_1315.

Abramov, I., Gordon, J., Hendrickson, A., Hainline, L., Dobson, M.V., and Labossiere, E. (1982) The retina of the newborn human infant. Science, 217, 265_267.

Hainline, L. and Lemerise, E. (1982) Infants' scanning of geometric forms varying in size. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 33, 235_256.

Hainline, L. (1981) An automated eye movement recording system for use with human infants. Behavior Research Methods and Instrumentation, 13, 20_24.

Hainline, L. (1978) Developmental changes in visual scanning of face and nonface patterns by infants. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 25, 90_115.