The world presents our visual system with an overwhelmingly rich image. We cannot fully process everything at once, and instead must focus our attention on the most relevant information. Our research focuses on the tools that we use to select visual information, and how these tools are applied. How much of selection is automatic, and how much is under our control? Can we select more than one thing at a time? How do we maintain selection of an object when it moves?

We also study processes that support and interact with visual selection. These processes include visual memory, which helps us store what we have selected in the past, object tracking, which helps us maintain selection of moving objects, and number perception, which relies on selection mechanisms to construct the units underlying the counting process.

News

• The lab is hiring a full-time research assistant, to split between our lab and Joan Chiao's lab. Do behavioral, EEG/ERP, and fMRI research in one position!
  Contact Trixie (trixie at u.northwestern.edu) ASAP if you are interested.
  
  
• We are accepting graduate students for next year - contact Steve Franconeri for more information.
  
  
• The lab welcomes Heeyoung Choo, from Yonsei University, as a new graduate student.
  
  
• Congratulations to Claudia Lau for winning a Cognitive Science Fellowship.
  
  
• Congratulations to Jeff Lin on entering the Ph.D. program in Psycholgy at the University of Washington.
  
  
• Congratulations to Jeff Nelson, former lab head RA, on entering the Ph.D. program in Psycholgy at Duke University.