Robert Earl Lickliter is an American developmental psychologist and professor at
Florida International University
Florida International University (FIU) is a public university, public research university with its main campus in Miami-Dade County. Founded in 1965, the school opened its doors to students in 1972. FIU has grown to become the third-largest uni ...
. He is known for researching the development of intersensory
perception
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and
selective attention
Attentional control, colloquially referred to as concentration, refers to an individual's capacity to choose what they pay attention to and what they ignore. It is also known as endogenous attention or executive attention. In lay terms, attenti ...
in
human
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s and other
animal
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s. He is a fellow of the
Association for Psychological Science
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and the
Society for Behavioral Neuroscience and Comparative Psychology.
References
External links
Faculty page*
Living people
American developmental psychologists
21st-century American psychologists
Florida International University faculty
University of California, Davis alumni
Virginia Tech faculty
American neuroscientists
Fellows of the Association for Psychological Science
Year of birth missing (living people)
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