Research Interests


My research focuses on the functional details of how visual stimuli are encoded as reportable percepts in our mind's eye using a mixture of computional, behavior and electrophysiological techniques.  

It is especially interesting to me how the process of selecting information from the visual stream is related to the subsequent encoding of it.  My work suggests that selection and enoding interact, and this functional integration produces the attentional blink (a demo).   You can read about this work in some recently published models; STST and the more recent eSTST.  

I also study the influence of emotion on attention.