How does the mind/brain come to know and understand the visual world? We investigate this question using eyetracking, computational methods, and neuroimaging.

News

January, 2020

Congratulations Zoe Loh! Zoe has just won a Provost's Undergraduate Fellowship for her work in the lab on the relationship between working memory and eye movement behavior in active vision.

December, 2019

Great work by lab members to submit four VSS abstracts and two CUNY abstracts all within two weeks. Whew! Now we wait to hear what gets accepted for talks!

November, 2019

OPAM and Psychonomics: Congratulations to lab members Candace Peacock and Deborah Cronin for presenting their recent work at the OPAM and Psychonomic Society meetings in Montreal. Lots of interest and great feedback from the workshop and conference! The lab was also well-represented at OPAM by Deb, who was one of this year's four organizers.

July, 2019

Congratulations to grad student Candace Peackock for her new first-author paper accepted at Acta Psychologica. The paper is titled "The Role of Meaning in Attentional Guidance during Free Viewing of Real-world Scenes". Preprint: https://tinyurl.com/y5gc76bx

June, 2019

Congratulations to post-doc Taylor Hayes for his new first-author paper accepted at Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, Scene semantics involuntarily guide attention during visual search. Preprint here: https://psyarxiv.com/nqme8

Congratulations to grad student Candace Peacock for her appointment to the UC Davis Vision Sciences T32 training grant for the 2019-2020 academic year!

May, 2019

Congratulations to Taylor Hayes for winning a VSS post-doctoral scholar travel award to attend the 2019 conference!