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Jack Loomis received his BA in Psychology from Johns Hopkins University in 1967. He went on to the University of Michigan and received MA and PhD degrees in Experimental Psychology in 1969 and 1971, respectively. His PhD thesis was in color vision. He then did a three year postdoc at Smith-Kettlewell Instititute of Visual Sciences in San Francisco where he did theoretical research on optic flow with Ken Nakayama and experimental research on tactile perception using the Tactile Vision Substitution System developed by Paul Bach-y-Rita and Carter Collins. Since 1974 he has been a professor in the Psychology Department at the University of California, Santa Barbara where he has conducted research on a very broad range of topics including color vision, tactual perception, visual character recognition, visual space perception, auditory space perception, spatial cognition, social interaction, and development of a navigation aid for blind people. He is author of over 90 publications and has been the Principal Investigator on 12 multiyear grants from NSF, NIH, ONR, and AFOSR. He has served on grant panels for NSF and NIH and is currently on the editorial boards of 4 journals. He is also an instrument rated private pilot with an interest in improving flight safety. Contact Information
Phone: (805) 893-2475 Mailing Address
Department of Psychology
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