Faculty Staff
Richard Backs, Ph.D.
Health Professions Building 2180(989) 774-6497
email: backs1rw@cmich.edu
About Dr. Backs:
Richard W. Backs received his Ph.D. in Experimental Psychology from the University of Southern California in 1984. He has previously held appointments at Occidental College, Washington University, the McDonnell Douglas Corporation, and Wright State University, conducting research in Human Factors Engineering. He has been at Central Michigan University since 1995.
Publications
- Wetzel, J. M., Quigley, K., S., Morell, J., Eves, E., & Backs, R. W. (2006). Cardiovascular measures of attention to illusory and non-illusory visual stimuli. Journal of Psychophysiology, 21.
- Backs, R. W., Rohdy, J., Barnard, J. (2005). Cardiac control during dual-task performance of visual or auditory monitoring with visual-manual tracking. Psychologia, 48, 66-83.
- Backs, R. W., da Silva, S. P., & Han, K. (2005). A comparison of younger and older adults’ Self-Assessment Manikin ratings of affective pictures. Experimental Aging Research, 31, 1-20.
- Backs, R. W., Shelley, J. R., & Lenneman, J. K. (2005). Using modes of cardiac autonomic control to assess demands upon processing resources during driving. In D. D. Schmorrow (Ed.), Foundations of Augmented Cognition. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum and Associates.
- Backs, R. W., Lenneman, J. K., Wetzel, J. M., & Green, P. (2003). Cardiac measures of driver workload during simulated driving with and without visual occlusion. Human Factors, 45, 525-538.
- Backs, R. W. (2001). An autonomic space approach to the psychophysiological assessment of mental workload (pp.279-289). In P. A. Hancock, & P. A. Desmond (Eds.), Stress, Workload, and Fatigue. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum and Associates.
- Backs, R. W., & Boucsein, W. (Eds.). (2000).Engineering Psychophysiology: Issues and Applications. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
- Boucsein, W., & Backs, R. W. (2000). Engineering psychophysiology as a discipline: Historical and theoretical aspects (pp. 3-29). In Backs, R. W., & Boucsein, W. (Eds.), Engineering Psychophysiology: Issues and Applications. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
- Lenneman, J. K., & Backs, R. W. (2000). The validity of factor analytically derived cardiac autonomic components for mental workload assessment (pp. 161-174). In Backs, R. W., & Boucsein, W. (Eds.), Engineering Psychophysiology: Issues and Applications. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.