Dr. Vreven is a professor of psychology at Framingham State University, where she has taught since 2007. Her academic interests encompass visual perception, cognition, and neuroscience, with a particular emphasis on understanding how the brain constructs meaningful perceptual experiences from complex and sometimes ambiguous sensory information.
Dr. Vreven earned her bachelor's degree in psychology, with honors, from Michigan State University, her M.A. in psychology from Central Michigan University, and her Ph.D. in experimental psychology from Brown University. Her doctoral research examined the perception of three-dimensional surfaces and the visual processes involved in interpreting ambiguous depth information. Following a postdoctoral appointment at the Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute in San Francisco, she began her teaching career at the University of Wisconsin–Oshkosh.
At Framingham State, Dr. Vreven teaches courses in statistics, research methods, and sensation and perception. She also developed the Cognitive Neuroscience course for the university's neuroscience minor. In recognition of her contributions to teaching, she received Framingham State University's Distinguished Teaching Award in 2023.
