Research:
Dr. Kim Orsten Hooge's (Dr. OH) current and ongoing research is largely focused in the area of perceptual organization. Her publications have covered topics such as configural processing, emergent features, visual search, False Pop Out, illusions, the interaction of top-down and bottom-up processes in perception, and human and computational face processing. She is currently a faculty member of the CHIL lab in the Rice University Department of Psychological Sciences.

In her past research lives, Dr. OH has published on topics ranging from traumatic brain injury in OIF/OAF veterans, to cognitive outcomes in at-risk youth, to the computational modeling of second-language acquisition. 

As a research consultant, Dr. OH has worked on various projects including behavioral intervention program evaluations for small businesses and applied psychophysical research to support large trademark infringement cases for Fortune 500 companies (e.g., case 4:2019cv04810; case 4:13-cv-02906).

Teaching:
Dr. OH's focus as part of the Psychological Sciences faculty is being in the classroom. She is dedicated to providing top notch courses designed to stimulate, educate, entertain, and inspire students to be top notch scientists. She also has an appointment at the University of Texas at Dallas, and was previously nominated for the UTD President's Teaching Excellence Award in Online/Blended Instruction. 

You can check out some of Dr. OH's teaching reviews here:  UTD reviews, Collin College reviews.

Other Projects:
Dr. OH recently lent her knowledge of neuroscience and cognition to the writing of "Mental Health 101 for Teens" - a book that guides teenagers through the basics of understanding, maintaining, and improving upon their mental health. You can find it here.