People

Research interests: I am interested in the interactions between visual working memory, attention and our surrounding environment. In particular, how the surrounding environment impacts the relationship between attention and visual working memory.

Jessica Kespe

B.Sc. Honours Psychology: Brain and Cognition, M.Sc. Psychology + Neuroscience, Ph.D. Neuroscience and Applied Cognitive Science (expected)

Research interests: Understanding how representations in long-term memory guide attentional capture. More specifically, how the relevance of these long-term memory representations can update themselves and bias the types of stimuli in the environment that capture attention.

Research interests: My current research focuses on self-regulated study decisions and generative artificial intelligence (AI). Specifically, I am investigating how choices pertaining to study time, study strategies, and AI use impacts our memory, attention, and metacognition (i.e., beliefs about our learning).

Research interests: Exploring attention and cognitive processing across visual and auditory domains, with an interest in how different stimuli influence attentional mechanisms. 

B.A.S. Psychology minor + Neuroscience minor

Emily Golikov 

B.A. Psychology + Neuroscience Minor (expected)

Research interests: I’m interested in how our expectations and previous experiences interact with what we are currently seeing. For my project, I’m particularly interested in what happens when something we have learned to expect conflicts with the visual information in front of us, and which one ultimately captures our attention. 

Blaire Dube

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Ph.D. Psychology + Collaborative Neuroscience, M.Sc. Psychology + Collaborative Neuroscience , H.B.A., Psychology

Research interests: How the application of attentional goals may influence our perception of, and memory for, various visual stimuli.

David De Vito

Ph.D. Psychology + Collaborative Neuroscience, M.Sc. Psychology + Collaborative Neuroscience, H.B.Sc Psychology

Research interests: Exploring how inhibition can change the affective value associated with visual stimuli as well as representations held solely in memory.

Maria Giammarco

Ph.D. Psychology + Collaborative Neuroscience, M.Sc. in Psychology, B.A. (Comb Hons.) in Psychology & Philosophy

Research interests: The ways in which implicit learning and explicit long-term memory influence the capture of visual attention using behavioural and eye-tracking methodology.