Brian Scholl (Email, Personal Homepage) Lab Director, Associate Professor of Psychology   Brian's recent research interests include:   • Visual awareness and attention • Visual object representation and object persistence • The perception of causality and animacy; Visual statistical learning • Infants' object cognition • Foundations of cognitive science; Relating perception and cognition • Sea-kayaking as a tool for procrastination

Joshua New (Email) Postdoctoral Fellow   Josh is interested in how animate and inanimate objects (e.g. people and animals, vs. plants and artifacts) are distinguished in semantic memory, visual perception, and underlying neural architecture -- especially how social information is categorically privileged via both spatial and temporal attention. His current work in our lab explores these topics in normal adults and also in children with autism spectrum disorder. He is also studying our subjective experience of time. Josh is a postdoc, so his picture gets a border.

Jonathan Flombaum (Email, Personal Homepage) Graduate Student   Flom is interested in the categories that we quickly and automatically assign to our perceptual experiences and in the evolution of the rules that mediate these classifications. His current projects focus on the nature of visual tracking, visual memory, and perception of the tunnel effect, in work with both adults and rhesus macaques. Jon will not be allowed the leave the lab until he learns to appreciate folk music.

Tao Gao (Email) Graduate Student   Tao recently joined our group from China, and is interested in studying how visual information is spatially and temporally integrated. He is currently exploring the nature of object representation, object persistence, and visual tracking. His previous research explored visual search, object-based attention and working memory, motion perception, and trans-saccadic integration. Beyond the lab, he exhibits excellent taste by reading a lot of science fiction.

Nicholaus Noles (Email) Graduate Student   Nic's recent studies explore the nature of object persistence, from lower-level visual processing to higher-level conceptual intuitions. His work in visual cognition has focused on the nature of mid-level 'object-file' representations, while his work in conceptual processing and philosophical intuitions has explored part replacement, as in the 'Ship of Theseus'. Nic also organizes strange occult activities (such as soccer games) for the McDougal Center.

Nick Turk-Browne (Email, Personal Homepage) Graduate Student; Also in Visual Cognitive Neuroscience Lab   Nick is interested in many facets of visual perception and memory, and has been exploring how subtle regularities in space and time are extracted and used to bias future perception. This work has led to several recent discoveries about the nature of visual statistical learning. Nick has a speech impediment (called "being Canadian") whereby he pronounces "z" as "zed". It is rumored that he also studies the brain.

Justin Junge Graduate Student in Visual Cognitive Neuroscience Lab   Justin is interested in the role that awareness plays in cognition generally and vision specifically. His current research explores the necessity of attention for certain types of visual learning, and the behavioral effects of learning that occur outside of awareness. If he needs a break from grad school, Justin plans on growing a mullet and becoming a roadie for the reunion tour of any band featured on 'Monster Ballads'. In this photo, Justin is training to operate one of our important pieces of laboratory equipment.

George Newman Graduate Student in Infant Cognition Lab & Cognitive Development Lab   George is interested in the unique ways in which we perceive, represent, and interpret social information. His current projects in our lab explore the dynamic nature of social perception and the types of on-line predictions we make about causal, goal-directed events. He's also made several neat discoveries about infants' causal perception. In order to work in our lab, George underwent thorough on-the-job training.

Riana Betzler Research Assistant   Riana is interested in many facets of statistical learning, especially as related to language acquisition and visual perception. She somehow became an expert in this area and conducted her own SL research projects before even arriving at Yale as a first-year undergraduate student. We're still not sure how this is possible, but apparently Morten Christiansen at Cornell had something to do with it. Riana's initial research explores how statistical learning functions in situations that closely resemble natural language.

Phillip Isola Research Assistant   Phillip is interested in just about all areas of visual cognition. His first project in our lab involved visual statistical learning, and he is now studying attentional selection and tracking. He also remains quite interested in several other areas of science including physics and computer science, as well as the visual arts and architecture. Outside of the lab and academics, Phillip enjoys juggling and building solar cars. Phillip speaks C and various other programming languages better than most of us speak English.

Erik Cheries (Personal Homepage) P&C Lab: Graduate Student (Ph.D., 2007); Primary advisor, Karen Wynn Currently: Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University, Lab for Developmental Studies   While in the lab from 2002 to 2007 (working primarily with Karen Wynn), Erik ran studies with both babies and adults exploring how the visual system selects, maintains, and identifies objects over time -- and how these processes might provide a foundation for reasoning about objects. Erik, now living the high-life as a postdoc in Cambridge, has more songs on his iPod than you do.

Hoon Choi P&C Lab: Graduate Student (Ph.D., 2006) Currently: Postdoctoral Fellow, Boston University, Vision Sciences Lab   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 postdoc at Boston University, working with Takeo Watanabe.

Steve Mitroff (Lab Page) P&C Lab: Postdoctoral Fellow (2002-2005) Currently: Assistant Professor, Duke University, Psychological & Brain Sciences   While in the lab from 2002 to 2005, Steve made discoveries and published papers on topics including visual awareness, motion-induced blindness, object persistence, and object files -- often studying both infants and adults. He's now running his own lab at Duke. We miss him, though Brian is also happy to be free of Steve's strict ban on using obscure latin phrases in papers.

George Alvarez	(MIT)
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	(Yale University, Child Study Center)
Alan Leslie	(Rutgers Center for Cognitive Science)
Jacques Mehler	(SISSA)
Steve Most	(University of Delaware)
Ken Nakayama	(Harvard University)
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	(Yale University)
Karen Wynn	(Yale University)
Do-Joon Yi	(Yonsei University)
Steve Zucker	(Yale University)

Automaticity Lab	(John Bargh)
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)
Developmental Disabilities Group	(Ami Klin, Fred Volkmar, et al.)
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)
Psychopathology & Cognition Lab	(Teresa Treat)
Sensory Info Processing Lab	(Larry Marks)
Social Cognitive Neuroscience Lab	(Jeremy Gray)
Social Robotics Lab	(Brian Scassellati)
Thinking Lab	(Woo-Kyoung Ahn)
Visual Cognitive Neuroscience Lab	(Marvin Chun)
Visual Neuroscience Lab	(Jamie Mazer)