Jessie Peissig, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor
Department of Psychology

Teaching interests: Comparative Animal Behavior, Learning and Memory, Animal Cognition.

Research interests: Object and face recognition in both humans and nonhuman animals.

Brief biography: I received my Ph.D. from the University of Iowa in 2001. After leaving Iowa, I spent four years as a postdoctoral fellow at Brown University.  I started as faculty at Cal State Fullerton in Fall of 2006.  In 2004 I received the Brenda A. Milner Writing Award from Division 6 of APA.  Along with Michael Tarr, I also just recently published a chapter on object recogniton in the 2007 Annual Review of Psychology.