People

Dr. Störmer moved to Dartmouth in spring 2020. The west coast contingent continues their research at UC San Diego.

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

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Jamal Williams * PhD student, UCSD;   Jamal is a PhD student working in both the Störmer and Brady labs. He received his B.S. in Cognitive and Behavioral Neuroscience at UC San Diego where he studied the links between visual working memory, attention, and perception with Drs. Viola Störmer and Timothy Brady. Jamal is interested in understanding how audition influences visual perception and in how attended objects and features are suppressed by the visual system. Outside of the lab you can find Jamal playing soccer, listening to music, or fixing his dumb bike.

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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.”

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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).

Mert Ozkan

Mert Ozkan,  PhD student, Dartmouth; Mert is a graduate student in Cognitive Neuroscience. He received his bachelor’s degree in Psychology from Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey. In his first years at Dartmouth, Mert’s research focused on various motion-induced position shift illusions where he examined the differences in which the visual system processes pre- and post-illusory representations. He is currently interested in how top-down spatial attention distributes the limited resources across multiple targets and how hemispheric differences affect this allocation process. Outside of research, Mert enjoys reading literature, painting, watching independent cinema, and trash TV.

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Kevin Ortego,  PhD student, Dartmouth; Kevin is a second-year 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.

* = NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) recipient


Undergraduate Researchers

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Jason Davis – Jason is an undergraduate researcher in the lab studying ensemble processing and how we learn to attend to relevant features and ignore irrelevant and distracting information.

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Jessica Honorato – Jessica is an undergraduate researcher in the lab and studies how learned attention transfers between the visual and auditory modalities.

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Joseph Fausey – Joseph is an undergraduate researcher in the lab and studies how learned attention transfers between the visual and auditory modalities.

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Amy Morrissey – Amy is an undergraduate researcher in the lab studying experience-based spatial and feature-based attention using EEG and behavioral measures.

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

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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.

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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.

Garrett Chao – Garrett is an undergraduate researcher in the lab and studies visual illusions and attention using EEG.

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

Ria Parikh – Ria is part of WISP (Women in Science Program) program and investigates neural correlates of learned attention in our lab.

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.

Sarah Parigela – Sarah is part of WISP (Women in Science Program) and investigates how prior information and regularities in the environment influence neural indices of working memory.

This could be you! If you’re interested in working in our lab, see more information here.

Alumni

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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

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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

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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

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.

Other alumni

DARTMOUTH:

Eden Kim (visiting student from Vanderbilt, 2022)

Lakshmi Jain (WISP student, 2023)

Sadye Law (undergraduate student and researcher, 2022-2023)

Daniel Garcia-Barnett (undergraduate student and researcher, 2022)

Alex Wells (undergraduate student and researcher, 2021/22)

Reshma Rajasingh (undergraduate honors student and researcher, 2021-2022)

Camden Parker (undergraduate honors student and researcher, 2021-2022)

UC SAN DIEGO:

Audrey Barszcz (undergraduate honors student and researcher, 2018-2020)
Young-jin Choi (undergraduate volunteer, 2018-2020)
Yu-Wen (Lora) Hsu (undergraduate volunteer, 2018-2020)
Kevin Sayed (undergraduate volunteer, 2017-2020)
Emilia Pokta (undergraduate volunteer, 2018-2020)
Avery Quynh (undergraduate volunteer, 2018-2019)
Nora Lyang (undergraduate volunteer 2019)
Kathy Chang (undergraduate volunteer 2018)
Xinwen Wang (undergraduate volunteer 2018)
Frederik Geweke (Visiting Student 2017-2018)
Qingzi (Fanny) Zheng (undergraduate honors student 2017-2018)

Gina D’Andrea-Penna (Neuroscience Rotation Student 2017)
Isabel Asp (undergraduate honors student 2016-2017, joint with Brady lab)


Summer students UCSD

Ashley Williams (STARS, 2019)

Hortensia Flores (ENLACE, 2019)

Erika Janella Almira (STARS, 2018)

J. Zak Peet (STARS 2018)

Yessenia Escobar Valencia (STARS, 2018)

Celene Gonzalez (STARS, 2017)