Brian Scholl (Email, Personal Homepage) Lab Director, Professor of Psychology   Brian's recent research interests include:   • Visual awareness • Representing objects in the mind • The perception of animacy, causality, and time • 'Core knowledge' in cognition and perception • Foundations of cognitive science • Sea-kayaking as a tool for procrastination

Alice Albrecht (Email, Personal Homepage) Graduate Student; Also in Visual Cognitive Neuroscience Lab   Alice is exploring how we perceive objects, and the neural substrates of this ability. She's currently investigating the nature of 'statistical summary representations' in perception, including the ability to rapidly and efficiently perceive average visual attributes across space and time, and in multiple modalities. Alice also has other discoveries that are full of holes (exploring holes vs. objects in visual attention).

Yi-Chia Chen (Email) Graduate Student   Yi-Chia is exploring varieties of aesthetic perception, and also cognitive and perceptual aspects of time. She recently joined us after working as a research assistant in Su-Ling Yeh's Perception & Attention lab at National Taiwan University, exploring audiovisual integration, implicit gaze processing, and time perception. Yi-Chia can count from one to ten in 15 different languages -- including 3 that Brian has never heard of.

Chaz Firestone (Email, Personal Homepage) Graduate Student   Chaz is studying how perception and cognition interact. He is currently exploring cognitive (im)penetrability, perceptual roots of philosophical intuitions, and the psychological reality of shape skeletons. He's so excited about these things that you can literally see his brilliant thoughts. Chaz has degrees in both philosophy and cognitive science, rode his bicycle 4,000 miles during the summer before graduate school, and has probably been further south than you have.

Brandon Liverence (Email, Personal Homepage) Graduate Student   Brandon is is studying the visual representation of time and space, in contexts including subjective time dilation, object tracking, event segmentation, selective attention, and the 'refresh rate' of perception. He does this when not vacationing inside Icelandic volcanos. Brandon's past is mysterious; rumors suggest that he was once a Stanford student, an archaeologist, a marine biologist, and a pharmaceutical consultant.

Aysu Suben (Email) Graduate Student   Aysu's interests include the cognitive and perceptual processes that help extract meanings from ambiguous images, the role of attention in object persistence (and vice versa), and the connections between phenomena such as attentional selection and ego depletion. Before joining the lab, she spent some time in Japan, practiced meditation at a Zen Buddhist temple, learned various languages, and wrote a book on drug abuse that was used as a textbook.

Emily Ward (Email, Personal Homepage) Graduate Student; Also in Visual Cognitive Neuroscience Lab   Emily is exploring what visual information we can acquire without conscious awareness and how awareness contributes to representing information in the brain. She has also studied spatial cognition with Russell Epstein at the University of Pennsylvania and is a graduate of Franklin & Marshall College. When not in the lab, Emily can be found thousands of miles away, sunburned, bug-bitten, and wearing inappropriate footwear for the weather.

Jonathan Kominsky Graduate Student, Cognition and Development Lab   Jonathan is exploring the role of time in perception, especially in the perception of causality. His current projects are focused on how people perceive very slow or gradual events, and how slow something can be and still be seen as an "event." An embarrassing number of his study ideas originate in his collection of old cartoons and Calvin & Hobbes comics. (We're not sure if this holds for his recent discovery that the temporal window of postdiction is variable.)

Hauke Meyerhoff (Personal Homepage) Visiting Graduate Student, Knowledge Media Research Center, Tubingen, Germany   Hauke has joined us for a semester from Germany, where he will soon complete his PhD. He previously published on topics including multiple object tracking and perceived chasing. Here at Yale, Hauke is exploring how the perception of animacy interacts with memory and temporal processing. In his spare time, Hauke enjoys several activities -- but we won't list them here, since Brian doesn't want the rest of the lab to learn that graduate students can have spare time.

Jonathan Phillips (Personal Homepage) Graduate Student, Department of Philosophy   Jonathan is studying both philosophy and psychology (or possibly psychology and philosophy, depending on which day of the week it is), with a focus on how we perceive and understand multiple interacting agents. For example, he is currently exploring the processes that underlie the perception of one agent causing another to do something. In his spare time, Jonathan publishes papers about the nature of morality, happiness, and freedom.

Brent Strickland (Personal Homepage) Graduate Student, Cognition and Development Lab   Brent's research program explores core cognition -- the set of early-emerging cognitive structures (relating to entities such as objects, numbers, beliefs, and intentions) that form a foundation for later learning. In particular, Brent is exploring how core cognition continues to operate into adulthood, and how it interacts with mental faculties such as vision and language. With Brent here, Brian is now focusing less on science, and is instead just practicing table-tennis.

Ben van Buren Graduate Student, Human Neuroscience Lab   Ben studies how abstract visual patterns such as facial attractiveness and goal-directed motion are detected by the brain and reflected in conscious visual perception. He believes that a deep understanding of what we see will come only through (1) the use of empirical methods and (2) constant consideration of how and why the brain evolved. With us, Ben is studying several aspects of social perception. He is responsible for the word "brain" appearing on this webpage.

Julian De Freitas Research Assistant   Julian's interests are highly specialized, and he only studies attention, consciousness, time perception, causal perception, intentional binding, and attentional rhythm. He ran ten experiments during his first summer in the lab, and is now picking up speed. During his first year at Yale, Julian focused on his schoolwork, and only visited 17 other countries. We think that he may be a spy sent from the group that really runs Yale (i.e the a capella community).

Tao Gao (Personal Homepage) P&C Lab: Graduate Student (Ph.D., 2011) After Yale: Postdoctoral Fellow, MIT, Brain & Cognitive Sciences, Tenenbaum Lab   While in the lab from 2006 to 2011, Tao brought life to vision science, making many discoveries related to 'social vision' (in general) and to the perception of animacy (in particular). His papers have great titles (e.g. The Psychophysics of Chasing, The Wolfpack Effect) and one of them has a paragraph about assassins. Tao, now a postdoc at MIT, has great taste in science fiction.

Nick Turk-Browne (Lab Page) P&C Lab: Graduate Student (Ph.D., 2009); Co-advised with Marvin Chun After Yale: Assistant Professor, Princeton University, Department of Psychology   While in the lab from 2004 to 2009, Nick studied visual perception, learning, and attention, and made several discoveries related to the nature of implicit visual statistical learning. Nick, now a Professor at Princeton, also lured Brian into being involved with his studies of the neural basis of such things using fMRI; in related news, hell has frozen over.

Joshua New (Personal Homepage) P&C Lab: Postdoctoral Fellow (2005-2009) After Yale: Assistant Professor, Barnard College, Department of Psychology   While in the lab from 2005 to 2009, Josh explored 'adaptive visual cognition' -- merging evolution psychology and vision science. This led to discoveries about the nature of visual awareness, motion-induced blindness, social perception in autism spectrum disorder, and subjective time dilation. Josh, now a Professor at Barnard, was a postdoc, so his picture gets a border.

Jonathan Flombaum (Lab Page) P&C Lab: Graduate Student (Ph.D., 2008) After Yale: Assistant Professor, Johns Hopkins, Dept. of Psych. & Brain Sciences   While in the lab from 2002 to 2008, Jon made several discoveries related to object persistence and visual tracking -- often studying both human adults and nonhuman primates -- and he resuscitated studies of the 'tunnel effect'. Jon, now a professor at Johns Hopkins, still hasn't learned to appreciate folk music, though; in related news, the hip-hop savviness of the lab has plummeted.

Erik Cheries (Personal Homepage) P&C Lab: Graduate Student (Ph.D., 2007); Primary advisor, Karen Wynn After Yale: Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University, Lab for Developmental Studies Currently: Assistant Professor, UMass Amherst, Dept. of Psychology   While in the lab from 2002 to 2007, Erik ran studies with both babies and adults exploring how the visual system selects, maintains, and identifies objects over time -- and how this provides a foundation for object cognition. Erik, now a professor at UMass Amherst, has more songs on his iPod than you do.

Hoon Choi (Personal Homepage) P&C Lab: Graduate Student (Ph.D., 2006) After Yale: Postdoctoral Fellow, Boston University, Vision Sciences Lab Currently: Assistant Professor, Dept. of Psychology, Hallym University   While in the lab from 2002 to 2006, Hoon made several discoveries related to causal perception, attention, and the mental representation of dynamic events. In case his picture here is too small to make out, here's a slightly bigger picture of Hoon. Hoon is now a professor back in South Korea.

Steve Mitroff (Lab Page) P&C Lab: Postdoctoral Fellow (2002-2005) After Yale: Assistant Professor, Duke University, Dept. of Psychology Currently: Associate Professor, Duke University, Dept. of Psychology & Neuroscience   While in the lab from 2002 to 2005, Steve made discoveries about visual awareness, motion-induced blindness, and object persistence -- studying both infants and adults. We miss him now that he's at Duke, though Brian is also happy to be free of Steve's strict ban on using obscure latin phrases in papers.

George Alvarez	(Harvard University)
Dick Aslin	(University of Rochester)
Marvin Chun	(Yale University)
Matt Doran	(University of Delaware)
Lisa Feigenson	(Johns Hopkins University)
Jacob Feldman	(Rutgers Center for Cognitive Science)
Steve Franconeri	(Northwestern University)
Jim Hoffman	(University of Delaware)
Marcia Johnson	(Yale University)
Ami Klin	(Emory University, Marcus Autism Center)
Alan Leslie	(Rutgers Center for Cognitive Science)
Greg McCarthy	(Yale University)
Jacques Mehler	(SISSA)
Steve Most	(University of New South Wales)
Ken Nakayama	(Harvard University)
George Newman	(Yale SoM)
Zenon Pylyshyn	(Rutgers Center for Cognitive Science)
Laurie Santos	(Yale University)
Bob Schultz	(Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Center for Autism Research)
Dan Simons	(University of Illinois)
Teresa Treat	(University of Iowa)
Karen Wynn	(Yale University)
Do-Joon Yi	(Yonsei University)
Steve Zucker	(Yale University)

Automaticity Lab	(John Bargh)
Child Neuroscience Lab	(Kevin Pelphrey)
Cognition & Decision-Making Lab	(Daeyeol Lee)
Cognition & Development Lab	(Frank Keil)
Comparative Cognition Lab	(Laurie Santos)
Computational Vision Group	(Steve Zucker)
Consumer Decision Making Lab	(Ravi Dhar, Nathan Novemsky)
Experimental Philosophy	(Joshua Knobe)
Haskins Laboratories	(Carol Fowler, Bruno Repp, et al.)
Human Neuroscience Lab	(Greg McCarthy)
Infant Cognition Lab	(Karen Wynn)
Memory & Cognition Lab	(Marcia Johnson)
Mind & Development Lab	(Paul Bloom)
Philosophical Psychology	(Tamar Gendler)
Sensory Info Processing Lab	(Larry Marks)
Social Robotics Lab	(Brian Scassellati)
Thinking Lab	(Woo-Kyoung Ahn)
Visual Cognitive Neuroscience Lab	(Marvin Chun)
Visual Neuroscience Lab	(Jamie Mazer)