Cognition / Perception

What pre-requisites do you look for when evaluating a potential thesis student?

Students interested in doing an honours thesis in my lab must have taken Psych 2H03 or 2XA3, at a minimum. It’s helpful if they’ve also taken Psych 3VV3, and ideal if they’ve also taken the lab course I offer in Human Memory and Cognition (Psych 3V03). 

What information are you going to want from a student who is interested in working in your lab?

I’ll want to look at a transcript, and it helps to have students e-mail me with a brief description of their research interests and long-term goals.

Please email me. Please include “! Thesis request” or “Independent study request” in the subject line of your email, as appropriate.

E-mail contact is preferred, after which we may set up an individual appointment to talk further.

Attention and visual perception

Attention, memory, and cognitive control are the focus of research conducted in our lab. We look at how selection of visual information in the world around us is controlled in part by the goals and intentions of observers, but also implicitly by memories of past experiences. This theoretical issue plays itself out across a wide range of selective attention and visual search tasks used in our studies.