Elyssa Twedt

Elyssa Twedt is an Associate Professor of Psychology at St. Lawrence University, specializing in spatial cognition across cognitive psychology, visual perception, and environmental psychology. She teaches

• Sensation and Perception with Lab
• Research Methods with Lab
• Cognitive Science Seminar
• Introduction to Psychology

Her research spans four main areas:

• Perception, memory, and navigation in natural/virtual spaces
• Well-being impacts of environmental design
• Statistical modeling of perceptual data
• Open science applications in teaching

Recent work focuses on individual differences in spatial cognition.

Key article trends include:

• Environmental psychology and restorative spaces
• Perceptual scaling to bodily characteristics
• Statistical method critiques
• Interdisciplinary applications of spatial cognition

Scientific awards include

• 2013 Action Teaching Award
• Jefferson Foundation Grant (2010)
• Published Action Teaching Report (2014)

Students collaborate on projects involving

• Virtual reality environment design
• Tool use and spatial perception
• Technological medium impacts on cognition

at her lab in Flint Hall, Room 107.