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Scott Bailey

  • Chair and Professor of Psychology, Integrated Science Program Director, Honors Program Director
  • Psychology

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Biography

EDUCATION

Ph.D. in Behavioral Neuroscience, Kansas State University

M.S. in Experimental Psychology, Emporia State University

B.A. in Psychology, Southwestern University

NOTABLE ACTIVITY

Krost Symposium Chair:

  2019: What A Dog Nose: Chasing Canine Cognition

  2001: The Evolution of Intelligence

Spring 2015: Visiting Professor at Harlaxton College, Harlaxton, Lincolnshire, England

Summer 2005: Visiting Professor at Center for Global Education, Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico

Faculty Led Study Abroad:

  2022: Taste in Europe; traveled with students in The Netherlands, Belgium, and France

  2010: Sleeping and Dreaming; traveled with students in Austria and Hungary

  2006, 2007: Applied Animal Learning; traveled with students in Norway

2010-11: Senior Consultant for Corporate Insights, Purchase, New York

2010: Southwestern Psychological Association President

2004-2018: Lillie Krause Professor in Social Science

2003-05: Conference Chair, Southwest Regional Conference for Teachers of Psychology

Visiting Researcher:

  2002-03: University of Texas, Michael Domjan Lab

  Summer 2002: Baldwin-Wallace College, G. Andrew Mickley Lab

SELECT PRESENTATIONS AND PUBLUCATIONS (students’ names in itallics)

Williamson, L. C. & Bailey, S. A. (2024). An introduction to functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) instrumentation and research. Symposium to be held at the annual meeting of the Southwestern Psychological Association, San Antonio, Texas.

Salgado, S., Williamson, L.C., Bloodgood, N. & Bailey, S.A. (2024). Cake, Fruit, and Cognitive Load: a replication using functional near-infrared spectroscopy. To be presented at the annual meeting of the Southwestern Psychological Association, San Antonio, Texas.

Williamson, L. C. & Bailey, S. A. (2024). In search of synesthesia: A history of measuring perceptual neurodiversity. Paper to be presented at the 2024 annual meeting of the Southwest Society of Mind to be held in Isla Mujeres, Quintana Roo, Mexico.

Williamson, L. C. & Bailey, S. A. (2023). Attention modulates synesthetic V4 photism salience​. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, Washington, D.C.

Williamson, L., Unks, M., Mikol, M., Becerra, L., Woods, E. & Bailey, S.A. (2023). Cognitive neuroscience using fNIRS: At the intersection of biology, physics, and psychology. Symposium at the annual meeting of the Southwestern Psychological Association, Frisco, TX.

Williamson, L. C. & Bailey, S. A. (2023). Sequence-space synesthetes are all around, but how many are there? Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Southwestern Society for Mind, Terlingua, TX.

Williamson, L., Woods, E. & Bailey, S.A. (2022). Synesthetic V4 activation by achromatic stimuli measured using fNIRS. Poster presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for functional Near Infrared Spectroscopy, Boston, MA.

Williamson, L. C. & Bailey, S. A. (publication under review). Chromesthesia Modulates Perception of Music and Everyday Sounds.

Espino, S. A., Bloxham, M. A., Lee, S. A., & Bailey, S. A. (2020). Translating chromesthesia for non-synesthetes. In J. Jewanski, S. A. Day, S. Siddiq, M. Haverkamp, & C. Reuter (Eds.), Music and Synesthesia: Abstracts from a Conference in Vienna, scheduled for July 3–5, 2020 ([Electronic ed.].). Readbox unipress in der readbox publishing GmbH. Published abstract permalink: http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:hbz:6-01169453168

Johnson, A. R., Gray, E. N., Radtke, L. J., & Bailey, S. A. (2020). Chromesthesia influences on musically inspired immersive experience design. In J. Jewanski, S. A. Day, S. Siddiq, M. Haverkamp, & C. Reuter (Eds.), Music and Synesthesia: Abstracts from a Conference in Vienna, scheduled for July 3–5, 2020 ([Electronic ed.].). Readbox unipress in der readbox publishing GmbH. Published abstract permalink: http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:hbz:6-01169453168

Flores, L., Locke, K. & Bailey, S.A. (2019). Back-chaining with automated auditory cues supports complex maze learning in rats. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Southwestern Psychological Association, Albuquerque, NM.

Locke, K., Diaz, A., Case, G., Marrou, M. & Bailey, S.A. (2019). What the face? Emotional expression and conformity with 1970s M*A*S*H laugh tracks. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Southwestern Psychological Association, Albuquerque, NM.

Gulick, Z. & Bailey, S.A. (2019). What the face? Monitoring expression changes during habituation and dishabituation. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Southwestern Psychological Association, Albuquerque, NM.

Moore, K., Patterson, S. Flores, L. & Bailey, S.A. (2019). What the face? Emotional expression in the taboo Stroop effect paradigm. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Southwestern Psychological Association, Albuquerque, NM.

Flores, L., Berggren, C., Brennan, C., & Bailey, S.A. (2018). Automating auditory reinforcement cues to facilitate maze learning in rats. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Southwest Comparative and Behavioral Neuroscience Association meeting, to be held in Houston, Texas, April 2018.

Bailey, S.A. (2010). Deliberate grist: Harvesting grain for the learning mill. SWPA Presidential Address delivered at the annual meeting of the Southwestern Psychological Association, Dallas, TX.