Associate Professor
Department of Psychology
2125 G. Street, NW
The George Washington University
Washington, DC  20052
Telephone: (202) 994-6313

Director, Brain and Navigation Laboratory

Effective navigation requires being able to figure out where we are and to keep track of our location while moving about. The ability to navigate has profound consequences for one's sense of independence and quality of life. The ability to keep track of one's location is so crucial that individuals lacking it are essentially helpless, and yet our understanding of the neural underpinnings of self- motion sensing remains coarse. My research program investigates the psychological and neural processes underlying how we use vision to determine our location and how we remain oriented while moving about. To study these issues, I test the perceptual abilities of people from a wide range of ages, including individuals who have suffered certain forms of brain injury.

Research Interests:

• Visual Space Perception
• Visual Control of Action
• Human Spatial Cognition and Navigation
• Cognitive Neuroscience of Perception and Action
• Navigation in Augmented and Virtual Environments

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