What is happening in the lab                                                                                                               
  • Breana Carter successfully defend her dissertation, entitled "The role of uncertainty in the constrain of visual attention and visual short-term memory. 

  • Sarah is elected to be a member of the International Neuropsychological Symposium
  • Stephen Adamo receives the prestigious Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship award! Congratulations, Stephen! 
  • Paul Scotti, our talented undergrad, is off to grad school at The Ohio State University, joining labs of Julie Golomb and Andrew Leber
  • Lab Winter Holiday Party 2016
  • NEW PAPER: "Task set induces dynamic reallocation of resources in visual short-term memory." Psychonomic Bulltein & Review
  • NEW PAPER: "Intrusive Effects of Task Irrelevant Semantic Information on Visual Selective Attention". Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics (Steven Yantis Special Issue)
  • NEW PAPER: "Spatial and non-spatial aspects of visual attention: Interactive cognitive mechanisms and neural underpinnings". Neuropsychologia
  • NEW PAPER: "Retinotopic information interacts with category selectivity in human ventral cortex". Neuropsychologia
  • NEW PAPER: "Looking without perceiving: Impaired preattentive perceptual grouping in autism spectrum disorder.". PLOS ONE
  • BIG NEWS! HUGE! Summer Sheremata is off to start an Assistant Professor job at Florida Atlantic University. Congratulations, Summer!
  • BIG NEWS! HUGE! George Malcolm is off to start an Assistant Professor job at the East Anglia University. Congratulations, George!
  • Jeongmi Lee has successfully defended her dissertation entitled "Effects of Reward on Attentional Selection"and is now off to UC Davis to join Dr. Joy Geng's lab at UC Davis
  • Jeongmi Lee successfully defended her dissertation entitled "Effects of Reward on Attentional Selection." Congratulations Jeongmi!
  • VSS 2013 in Naples, FL


  • NEW PAPER: "Shaping Attention with Reward: Effects of reward on space- and object-based selection" is in press in Psychological Science.
  • Congratulations, Jeongmi!
    • Jeongmi Lee successfully defended her dissertation entitled, "Effects of Reward on Attentional Selection."

  • Congratulations, Alex Etz!
    • Undergraduate research assistant Alex Etz placed third in the Social Sciences Category at GW's Research Days 2013 for his poster, "Influences of Object Properties to Attentional Guidance." Alex presented his poster as part of his Luther Rice Fellowship.

  • We welcome Summer Sheremata who joins the lab as a Postdoctoral Fellow. She hails from Michael Silver's lab at UC Berkley
  • We welcome George Malcolm who joins the lab as Postdoctoral Fellow after training with Philippe Schyns at University of Glasgow
  • 2012, end of spring semester lab get together

                                                    
  • VSS 2011, lab get together.

  • Congratulations, Ian Donovan!
    • Ian has just received the 2011 George Gamow Undergraduate Research Fellowship Award for his research with object-based attention!
    • Ian has also been accepted into the 13th Annual Undergraduate Summer Workshop in Cognitive Science and Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Pennsylvania.
  • Congratulations, Emily Bilger!
    • Emily has been accepted into the Postbaccalaureate Intramural Research Training Award Program at the National Institutes of Health! Emily will begin her position in the Baker Lab upon graduation this spring.
  • NEW GRANT: “ Uncertainty Reduction: The Guiding Principle of Attentional Allocation” research program is now funded for three years by the National Science Foundation (NSF).
  • Lab outing, Spring 2011.

  • VSS 2010
    • Leslie presented a poster titled "The time course of space- and object-based attentional prioritization."
    • Jeongmi presented a talk titled "Reward driven prioritization modulates object-based attention in human visual cortex."
    • Allex presented a poster titled "Attention is directed by prioritization in cases of certainty."
    • Sarah presented a poster titled "Relative contributions of SPL and tpj to object-based attentional capture."
  • VSS 2010, lab get together.

  • Pictures from the recent Anna, Erik, and Sarah's going  away  dinner. Good luck, and we will miss you!


  • VSS 2009
    • Leslie presented a poster titled "Space- and object-based representations guide attentional selection in dynamic displays."
    • Sarah presented a poster titled "Contribution of object-based representation to attentional capture."
  • VSS 2009, lab get together.
                                                         
  • Congratulations, Erik Wing!
    • Erik will be entering the PhD program in the Psychology Department at Duke University and will become a member of the Cabeza Lab!
  • Congratulations, Anna  Byers!
    • Anna will start her PhD training at the UCSD's Department of Psychology, in John Serences' lab!
  • Sarah receives a Dilthey Award from GWU.
    • The project entitled "Attention and Language Performance in Patients with Brain Damage," in collaboration with Adrienne Hancock (from Speech and Hearing Sciences), receives a Dilthey Award from GWU.