Viola Störmer Principal Investigator – Viola received her PhD from the Max Planck Institute for Human Development and the Humboldt University in Berlin, Germany, and conducted postdoctoral research in the Department of Psychology at Harvard working with Dr. George Alvarez and Dr. Patrick Cavanagh in the Harvard Vision Lab. Before coming to Dartmouth, she was an Assistant Professor at UC San Diego. You can email her at: viola.s.stoermer@dartmouth.edu

Yong Hoon Chung, PhD student, Dartmouth; Yong is a PhD student in cognitive neuroscience. He received his undergraduate degree in cognitive and behavioral neuroscience at UC San Diego where he worked with Dr. Tim Brady, Dr. John Serences, and Dr. Viola Störmer on projects investigating visual working memory, object tracking, and how visual attention influences perception. Yong is currently interested in studying how visual perception and feature encoding can relate to visual working memory and attention and their underlying neural mechanisms using variety of both behavioral and neuroimaging methods. When he’s not in front of a computer Yong likes playing guitar, watching TV, drinking beer, and cooking Korean foods (or going to a good Korean food restaurant).

Kevin Ortego,  PhD student, Dartmouth; Kevin is a graduate student in cognitive neuroscience. He is interested in ensemble perception, selective attention, in particular how we learn to suppress distracting information, neural correlates of consciousness, and EEG methods.

Yifan Fang,  PhD student, Dartmouth; Yifan is a first-year graduate student in Cognitive Neuroscience. She completed her undergraduate degree in cognitive science and data science at UC Berkeley where she explored continuous perception of trustworthiness based on contextual information and investigated serial dependence in motor movements. Currently, Yifan is interested in how selective attention impacts the encoding of complex social cues compared to simple non-social attributes, particularly using dynamic real-world stimuli. Outside the lab, she enjoys playing tennis and snowboarding.

Janna Wennberg PhD student, UCSD; Janna is a PhD student in Psychology, working in both the Störmer and Serences labs. She earned her B.A. in Mathematics from Carleton College, where she also did speech perception research with Dr. Julia Strand. Her eyes were opened to visual cognition (ha) while working with Dr. Shinsuke Shimojo at Caltech for a summer and with Dr. Klaus Oberauer during a semester abroad in Zürich, Switzerland. She subsequently spent a summer working with Dr. Edward Awh and Dr. Edward Vogel at University of Chicago. Currently, Janna’s research interests include multisensory perception, as well as the role of alpha band activity in selective attention and memory. She is also a statistics enthusiast. When she’s not in the lab, Janna enjoys running, reading, and rock climbing, but she’s also open to activities that don’t start with “R.”

Jessica Honorato – Lab manager and undergraduate researcher in the lab. Jessica is an undergraduate researcher in the lab who helps with various research projects and also helps us be more organized.

Jason Davis – Jason is an undergraduate researcher interested in how we represent auditory information and how such information reaches conscious awareness. His current research examines the neural and psychological processing of sound, and how previous experience facilitates attentional selection of auditory features in our environment. If he is not conducting research in the lab, he is likely either playing soccer, running, or cooking one of his signature bowls. If you stay on his good side, he’ll make you one for free…

Here is a link to his website.

Justin Santana – Jason is an undergraduate researcher in the lab studying whether and how we can divide our spatial focus of attention.

Kaira Shlipak – Kaira joined our lab through WISP (Women in Science Program) and is investigating how working memory relates to fluid intelligence.

Nicole Anaya-Sosa – Nicole is an undergraduate researcher in the lab and studies why and how face perception gets distorted in the Flashed-Face-Distortion-Effect.

Luke Putelo – Luke is an undergraduate researcher in the lab and studies effects of feature-based attention on early visual processing using EEG.

Sam (Seho) Jung – Sam is an undergraduate researcher in the lab studying cross-modal attention and visual working memory.

Alison Sasaki – Alison is an undergraduate researcher in the lab studying visual working memory.

Chris Mecane – Chris is an undergraduate researcher in the lab using EEG to study visual illusions and how we ignore distracting information.

Audrey Kim – Audrey is part of WISP (Women in Science Program) program and investigates how prior information and regularities in the environment influence working memory.

Andrew Mitchell – Andrew is an undergraduate researcher in the lab and helping with several EEG studies on visual working memory and attention.

Jamal Williams, former PhD student, UCSD (2018-2024); Jamal was a PhD student working in both the Störmer and Brady labs. Jamal’s research is focused on understanding how audition influences visual perception, how attention and memory interact, and how to precisely quantify and measure memory performance. Jamal is now a postdoc with Kia Nobre at Yale University. Here is Jamal’s personal website.

Angus Chapman, former PhD student, UCSD (2017-2022); Angus was a grad student in the lab, studying mechanisms of feature-based attention using EEG and psychophysics. Angus is now a postdoc at Boston University working with Dr. Rachel Denison. Here is Angus’ personal website

Jonathan Keefe, former PhD student, UCSD (2017-2022); Jonathan was a PhD student in the lab interested in how perception and attention work within and across sensory modalities, using EEG to better understand the neural bases of these cognitive processes.  Jonathan now works at Pacific Science & Engineering in San Diego. Here is Jonathan’s personal website. 

Mert Özkan,  former PhD student, Dartmouth (2018-2024); Mert was a PhD student in the lab interested in the limits of spatial and feature-based attention and EEG methods. Prior to joining our lab he worked with Patrick Cavanagh.

Doug Addleman Postdoc, Dartmouth (2020-2023); Doug received his PhD from the University of Minnesota working with Dr. Yuhong Jiang. Doug studies selective attention, with a particular focus on experience-driven attention, attention in multiple modalities, and the effects of vision loss on spatial attention. Doug is now an assistant professor at Gonzaga University. Here is Doug’s personal website.

Lauren Williams former postdoc, Dartmouth & UCSD (2020-2022); Lauren received her PhD from the University of Utah, where she worked with Dr. Trafton Drew. Lauren studied how prior knowledge and task context influence our mental representations of objects during complex visual tasks (e.g., visual search); the consequences of a limited visual attention system in applied settings, such as radiology; and perceptual expertise. Lauren now works at Google. Here is Lauren’s personal website.