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Welcome to the Attention and Cognition Lab at GWU, led by Dr. Sarah Shomstein. One
of the fundamental
properties of our
environment is that
it is comprised of a
multitude of sensory
information. Given
such richness of
input, humans are
faced with the
problem of having
limited capacity for
processing
information, on the
one hand, and the
need to analyze as
much of the sensory
input as possible,
on the other.
 Here, at the Attention and Cognition Laboratory, research is concerned with understanding the psychological and neural mechanisms underlying attentional selection, and focuses on two general questions. The first question concerns the representations, or units, on which selection is based and this line of research focuses primarily on the behavioral. The second question concerns the computations involved in the selection per se and this research investigates the neural network responsible for generating the attentional control signal and the impact this signal exerts on the neural trace of the sensory stimulus before and after it has been attentionally selected. 
Fall 2018 Left to
right. Standing:
Charity Chukwu, Laslo
Cline, Dick Dubbelde,
Sarah Shomstein,
Selene Schintu,
Lexington Lemmon, AJ
Collegio. Sitting:
Ellie Robbins, Joe
Nah, and George
Washington. (photo
credit: Joe Nah)
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