Susan J. Lederman is a Canadian
experimental psychologist
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. She is a professor emerita in the Department of Psychology at
Queen's University in
Kingston
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** Kingston, Jamaica
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,
Ontario
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, 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
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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)
21st-century Canadian psychologists
Canadian women psychologists
Academic staff of Queen's University at Kingston
University of Toronto alumni
University of Wisconsin–Madison alumni
Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada
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