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Appendix A: Biographical Information of Committee and Staff
Pages 123-132

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... Probing the relationship between the activity of brain cells and perceptual state, his laboratory seeks to understand how visual perception is affected by attention, behavioral goals, and memories of previous experiences. His discoveries address the ways in which context influences visual perceptual experience and the mechanisms of visual associative memory and visual imagery.
From page 124...
... He has been an Adjunct Professor at Columbia Law School since 1988, teaching upper class seminars in science and the law, class actions, white collar crime, and the interplay of civil and criminal law. Judge Rakoff is a Commissioner on the National Commission on Forensic Science and is a former member of the Governance Board of the MacArthur Foundation Initiative on Law and Neuroscience.
From page 125...
... Cecil is responsible for judicial education and training in the area of scientific and technical evidence and served as principal editor of the first two editions of the Center's Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence, which is the primary source book on evidence for federal judges. He also has published several articles on the use of court-appointed experts.
From page 126...
... Mr. Garrett attended Columbia Law School, where he was an articles editor of the Columbia Law Review and a Kent Scholar.
From page 127...
... She has served on several National Research Council committees and is a past or present member on the governing boards for ASA, Institute of Mathematical Statistics, International Statistical Institute, and National Institute of Statistical Sciences. She is a Fellow of the ASA, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the International Statistics Institute; she has authored more than 100 journal articles and book chapters; and has advised numerous M.S.
From page 128...
... McNamara taught search and seizure at the Mohawk Valley Police Academy. He was also an adjunct instructor at Mohawk Valley Community College, where he taught both criminal law and constitutional criminal procedural law.
From page 129...
... His research adopts methods ranging from real-world and video-based approaches to computer-based psychophysical techniques, and it includes basic behavioral measures, survey and individual difference methods, simulator studies, and training studies. This diversity of approaches helps establish closer links between basic research on the mechanisms of attention, perception, memory, and awareness and how those mechanisms operate in the real world.
From page 130...
... Wagner's research explores how the brain supports learning, memory, and executive function. In addition to his basic science, his research examines memory dysfunction in clinical populations and the role of neuroscience evidence in legal and educational settings.
From page 131...
... Dr. Mazza has been the study director on numerous Academy reports including, Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence, 3rd Edition (2011)
From page 132...
... ; and Strengthening Forensic Science in the United States: A Path Forward (2009)


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