What is happening in the lab                                                                                                               
  • 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.