Susan J. Lederman is a Canadian
experimental psychologist. She is a professor emerita in the Department of Psychology at
Queen's University Queen's or Queens University may refer to:
*Queen's University at Kingston, Ontario, Canada
*Queen's University Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK
**Queen's University of Belfast (UK Parliament constituency) (1918–1950)
**Queen's University of Belfast ...
in
Kingston
Kingston may refer to:
Places
* List of places called Kingston, including the five most populated:
** Kingston, Jamaica
** Kingston upon Hull, England
** City of Kingston, Victoria, Australia
** Kingston, Ontario, Canada
** Kingston upon Thames, ...
,
Ontario, Canada.
She is recognized for her contributions to the field of
haptics.
Lederman earned a B.A. from the University of Toronto in 1968; an M.A. from the University of Wisconsin in 1970; and a Ph.D. from the University of Toronto in 1973.
Lederman's research has examined, among other topics, the tactile
psychophysics
Psychophysics quantitatively investigates the relationship between physical stimuli and the sensations and perceptions they produce. Psychophysics has been described as "the scientific study of the relation between stimulus and sensation" or, m ...
of texture perception, and the haptic processing of objects and faces. She led a research project to design and test the addition of a
tactile feature to Canadian banknotes, in order to increase their accessibility to
blind and visually impaired users.
She was formerly the Associate Editor-in-Chief of the
IEEE journal ''Transactions on Haptics.''
Selected works
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See also
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Canadian currency tactile feature
References
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Canadian psychologists
Canadian women psychologists
Queen's University at Kingston faculty
University of Toronto alumni
University of Wisconsin–Madison alumni
Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada
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