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Rick O. Gilmore is Professor of Psychology at Pennsylvania State University's College of the Liberal Arts and a Huck Institute of the Life Sciences Faculty Co-fund. He directs the Brain Development Laboratory with research foci in Cognitive and Developmental psychology.
His educational background includes a Ph.D. and M.S. from Carnegie Mellon University (1997 and 1994) and an A.B. magna cum laude from Brown University (1985).
Gilmore's research centers on visual perception, specifically how brain networks process optic flow to extract environmental layout, object shape, and self-movement information. He is a leading advocate for open science practices and co-founded Databrary.org data library and Datavyu.org video coding tool. His work has been supported by NIH and NSF grants.
His recent scholarly output demonstrates strong focus on research transparency, data sharing infrastructure, and visual development. The publications reveal consistent themes in open science methodology and cognitive development research.
- College of the Liberal Arts tenure-line faculty teaching award
Gilmore has served as founding Director of Human Imaging at Penn State's Social, Life, and Engineering Sciences Imaging Center (2008-2014) and leads the Human Developmental Neuroscience Initiative for the Child Study Center. He advises numerous research initiatives and has mentored students in his senior seminar on the reproducibility crisis in science.
He maintains active laboratory operations through the Brain Development Laboratory and contributes to multiple open science infrastructure projects including databraryr package development and the Legacy Project: Visual Acuity initiative.
