John H. Flowers
Office: 219 Burnett Hall
(402)472-3194
jflowers1@unl.edu

Dr. Flowers jointed the UNL faculty in 1972. He received his Ph.D. from Yale University in 1972 in experimental psychology. Dr. Flowers teaches courses in perception and cognitive psychology at both the graduate and undergraduate level. His primary research interests are in the general area of human information processing, particularly attention, implicit learning, and the perception of structure. His interest in the perception of structure has recently led to a research program on the use of sound as a means for representing data. Dr. Flowers is currently the area advisor for the graduate specialty in cognitive psychology.

Representative Publications:

Flowers, J. H. & Hauer, T. A. (1995). Musical versus visual graphs: Cross-modal equivalence in perception of time series data. Human Factors, 37, 553-569.

Flowers, J. H., Buhman, D. C. & Turnage, K. D. (1997). Cross-modal equivalence of visual and auditory scatterplots for exploring bivariate data samples. Human Factors, 39, 341-351.

Flowers, J. H. & Smith K. L. (1998). What is learned about nontarget items in simple visual search? Perception & Psychophysics, 60, 696-704.

Odgaard E. C., Flowers, J. H. & Bradman, H. L. (1999). An Investigation of the Cognitive and Perceptual Dynamics of a Colour-Digit Synaesthete. Perception, 28, 651-664.

Flowers, J. H. & Grafel, D. C. (2002). Perception of daily sonified weather records. Proceedings of the human factors and ergonomics society – 46th Annual Meeting, 1579-1583.