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During this academic semester, I am available to see students in my office (B15-AA175) on a drop-in basis on Saturday from 12:00 noon until 04:00 PM. However, on Sunday and Monday I will be in the National Center for Youth Studies  office (B17-3A 30). So do email me to check my availability if you are intending to avail of the drop-in session on a particular one of  these days. Outside these times, scheduled individual appointments can be arranged by emailing me.

Biography

Abdulrahman Al-Rasheed completed his doctorate under the supervision of professor Ian Davies and Anna Franklin at the university of Surrey  after taking up his first academic position as a lecturer at King Saud University 2003.

He is currently assistant professor at the department of Psychology at the King Saud University.

Abdul's research uses cognitive, behavioral and neuroimaging techniques to look at aspects of color perception and cognition. He especially interested in the influences of linguistic on color perception; categorical perception and the effect of reading direction on categorization. Abdul's research aim is to investigate the contribution of language to categorization, also to explore categorization across variations languages using behavioral approaches such as eye-tracking and measures of accuracy and reaction time, as well as an electrophysiological method called the Event-Related Potential (ERP) technique.

Much of Abdulrahman research has explored color categorization, specifically investigating the phenomenon of categorical perception (CP) of color. Color CP is characterized by faster and/or more accurate discrimination of colors that cross a category boundary (e.g. a blue and a green) compared to equivalently spaced colors from the same color category e.g. (two greens). He is also interested in exploring CP in other visual domains such as metric information and line orientation.

Abdulrahman is currently involved with several research studies. These include: 1) Cross-cultural differences in color perception and cognition. 2) effect of language on cognitive processes 3)factors underlying color preference 4) the effect of reading directions in categorization and cognition