Felice Bedford

Felice L. Bedford is an associate professor emeritus at the University of Arizona. She an American research psychologist known for her work on perception, genetics, and processing of visual information.
Early life and education
Bedford was born in Brooklyn, NY. She earned a Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1988.
Career and research
Bedford's work includes theories of mindfulness meditation and imagery in illness, how the wrong conclusions have been drawn from neuropsychology data, mathematical models of growth of the head and body on perception, and a comprehensive theory of perceptual learning and adaptation. Genetic contributions have advanced knowledge of mitochondrial DNA haplogroup T2e Haplogroup T especially in Sephardim worldwide and conversos from Mexico, work that has been discussed by others. She has worked on the anti-McCollough effect which describes how visual information is processed, this work was reviewed by Bavin Sheth.
A civic contribution has been services as an expert witness in Arizona to prevent wrongful convictions based on perceptual mis-identifications, especially cross-racial ones.
Selected publications
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