School of Psychological Science

		Professor Ross Day Adjunct Professor		Phone: +61 3 9479 1929 Fax: +61 3 9479 1956 r.day@latrobe.edu.au Room 409 George Singer Building
		BSc Hons (West Aust.), PhD (Bristol), Hon D.Univ, Hon DSc, Hon FAPS, FASSA, FAA

My first appointment was that of Graduate Assistant in Psychology in the University of Western Australia in 1948, an appointment which today would be called Associate Lecturer. In 1950 I was invited to an assistant lectureship in psychology in the University of Bristol from which I transferred a year or so later to a research fellowship sponsored by the British Air Ministry. I undertook and completed my PhD on perceptual aspects of human skill while in that position. In 1955 I was appointed to a lectureship in the University of Sydney and over the next ten years was promoted first to a senior lectureship and then to a readership in psychology.

When Monash University was established I was invited in 1965 to the Foundation Chair of Psychology with the responsibility of establishing the Department of Psychology in the Faculty of Science. I “retired” from Monash University in 1992 after 28 years as Professor and Head of Department. Thereafter both La Trobe and Deakin Universities invited me to serve as an Adjunct Professor in Psychology, in both of which I have since continued researching and teaching. I have also spent significant periods of time working with research colleagues in Brown University in the USA and the Universities of Exeter and Dundee in the UK.

My main research interests are in human and infrahuman sensory processes and perception from both empirical and theoretical standpoints. These interests derive in large part from my view that perception offers an entrée into the development and nature of human consciousness which I consider to be the central concern of contemporary psychology. My interests encompass perception in a variety of “applied” situations, for example, in aircraft control and driving and in pedestrian locomotion, I have also worked on and published widely on perception in very early infancy and in individuals with intellectual disabilities. In recent years a good deal of my research time has been concerned with perceptual illusions on the assumption that an explanation of illusory phenomena will lead to a closer understanding of “normal” veridical perception.

	Recent Publications

Memberships and Associations

Honorary Fellow, Australian Psychological Society
Fellow, Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia
Fellow, Australian Academy of Science
Member, Psychonomic Society
Member, American Psychological Society
Member, Australian Foundation for Science

Recent Publications

Sparrow, W.A. & Day, R.H. (in press). Perception and action in mental retardation. The Annual Review of Research on Mental Retardation 2001.

Best, C.J. , Crassini, B. & Day, R.H. (in press). The roles of static depth and object-image relative motion in the perception of heading. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance.

Day, R.H. (2001). Laurel and Hardy and Me: A commentary on three theories of perception. In Parks, T.E. (Ed). Looking at Looking: An Introduction to the Intelligence of Vision, Pp. 83-93. Thousand Oaks (California): Sage Publications.

Day, R.H. (2001). The nature and history of contemporary psychology. In Rawlings, M., Skouteris, H, Barry, C., & Rawlings, D. Psychology One Pp. 5-9. Sydney: Heinemann.

Best, C., Crassini, B. & Day, R.H. (2000). The role of static depth in the visual perception of heading. In Bennett, K. M. B. & Gregory, S.J.(Eds). Perception and Cognition for Action Melbourne: Cleverland Printing.

Day, R.H. (2000). Visual anisotropy: The basis of apparent misalignment in parallel-line and right-angle figures. Australian Journal of Psychology (Suppl). 52, p32.