Proposal

I would like to employ a WRP student(s) to assist in experiments in my Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory. Student responsibilities would include assisting in literature searches and locating research articles, and most importantly collecting data from experimental participants. The overarching goal of my lab is to study the hidden mental processes involved in the acquisition and use of visual information. I am interested in questions such as: How do we pay attention to certain things and disregard other things? What happens in the brain during this selection process? How does this selection determine our visual experience? To help in this exploration, I will be using behavioral methods as well as a new 128-channel high-density electroencephalography (EEG) system that allows one to precisely measure the electrical activity that occurs in the brain. Please see my faculty webpage and Pages 12-13 of the Summer 2009 Wheaton Quarterly for more information.