Ross Flom
Assistant Professor, Psychology
1084 SWKT
422-1147
Email: flom@byu.edu
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Bio
Ross Flom received his Bachelors and Doctoral degrees from the University of Minnesota in 1992 and 1999 respectively. Ross also received a Masters degree from Idaho State University in school psychology in 1993. Following his PhD Ross was a post-doctoral trainee at Florida International University where we worked with Dr. Lorraine Bahrick. Following his two-year post-doc Ross joined the Department of Marriage, Family and Human Development in the fall of 2001. Currently Ross is a faculty member in the Psychology department. Ross’s research focuses on early perceptual and cognitive development in infancy. In one line of research Ross is examining those factors associated with the development of joint visual attention in infancy. A second, and more recent area of research, focuses on how infants learn to attend to those properties of an event that can be seen as well as heard, as well as infants ability to perceive sense modality specific information, e.g., color, in the presence of competing information. Currently Ross is examining the role of multimodal and unimodal information on infants’ long-term memory. Ross, along with colleagues Kang Lee of UCSD and Darwin Muir of Queens University, are in the processing of editing a book regarding the development of joint attention in infancy.
Research
Dr. Flom’s research examines the nature of early perceptual learning and cognitive development in human infants.
Representative Publications
Dr. Flo m’s research examines the nature of early perceptual learning and cognitive development in human infants.
Flom, R. & Pick, A.D. (in press). Experimenter affective expression and gaze following in 7-month-olds. Infancy
Bahrick, L.E., Lickliter, R., & Flom, R. (2004). Intersensory redundancy guides the development of selective attention, perception and cognition in infancy. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 13, 99-102.
Flom, R., Dek, G., Pick, A.D., & Phill, C. (2004). 9-Month-olds shared visual attention as a function of gesture and object location. Infant Behavior and Development, 27, 181-194.
Flom, R., & Pick, A.D. (2003). Verbal encouragement and joint attention in 18-month-olds Infant Behavior and Development, 26, 121-134.
Bahrick, L., Flom, R., & Lickliter, R. (2002) Intersensory redundancy facilitates discrimination of tempo in 3-month-old infants. Developmental Psychobiology, 41, 352-363.
Flom, R. & Bahrick, L.E. (2001). The global array: Not new to infant researchers. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 24, 221-222.
Dek, G., Flom, R., & Pick, A. (2000). Effects of gesture and target on 12- and 18-month- olds joint visual attention to objects in front of or behind them. Developmental Psychology, 36, 511-523.
Current Classes
PSYC 111 Introduction to Psychology
PSYC 301 Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences
