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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

M.Sc. Psychology + Neuroscience (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.

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).

B.A.S. Psychology minor + Neuroscience minor

Research interests: visual attention, especially how different aspects of attention (e.g. object-based attention, feature-based attention) interact with one another to shape our perception.

Ethan Hough

B.A. Psychology + Neuroscience Minor (Expected)

Research interests: Understanding the true impacts of distraction and processes of attentional capture.

Haley Doyle

B.A. Psychology + Neuroscience Minor (Expected)

Research interests: Understanding how learned visual regularities shape working-memory control. More specifically, whether predictions formed through visual statistical learning can reduce the effort required to open or close the working-memory gate. 

Katrine Stulikova

B.A. Psychology + Philosophy Minor (Expected)

Research interests: My research interests focus on how environmental and perceptual factors influence attention and learning. In particular, I am interested in how visual properties such as aesthetic appeal may guide implicit learning processes.

Elise Frederiksen

B.A.S. Psychology minor + Biology minor

Research interests: I’m interested in many different areas of psychology and neuroscience. In particular, I’d like to learn more about sensory memory, visual working memory, item categorization and representation, executive control, consciousness, and subconscious priming.

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.