PAC Lab :: Vanderbilt

Announcements & PACcolades

5/6/09: Poster Preview time: download our posters here. VSS attendees, please stop by the Attention: Tracking session on Tuesday morning to see us in person!

2/12/09: VSS 2009 is being taken over - all PAC lab members are presenting posters at this year's conference! To read about what Laura, Hilda, Phil, Rebecca, and Nicole have been doing, see the projects section.

2/9/09: Congratulations to Laura, who has an article accepted for publication in the journal Cognition!

Welcome! The PAC lab explores how people see and direct their attention to moving objects. The ability to follow the movement of multiple objects is an important skill for many activities, such as driving through a busy intersection, keeping up with your friends at an amusement park, or watching a football game. Our methods include human psychophysics, eyetracking, and human neuroimaging (fMRI).



Perception, Attention & Control Lab PI: Adriane Seiffert Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience Vanderbilt University Announcements & PACcolades 5/6/09: Poster Preview time: download our posters here. VSS attendees, please stop by the Attention: Tracking session on Tuesday morning to see us in person! 2/12/09: VSS 2009 is being taken over - all PAC lab members are presenting posters at this year's conference! To read about what Laura, Hilda, Phil, Rebecca, and Nicole have been doing, see the projects section. 2/9/09: Congratulations to Laura, who has an article accepted for publication in the journal Cognition! Welcome! The PAC lab explores how people see and direct their attention to moving objects. The ability to follow the movement of multiple objects is an important skill for many activities, such as driving through a busy intersection, keeping up with your friends at an amusement park, or watching a football game. Our methods include human psychophysics, eyetracking, and human neuroimaging (fMRI). We investigate research questions such as: How does attention track object movement? What is the neural implementation of this process? Why do errors in tracking occur? How is attention involved when people control the motion of objects? The long-term objective of this work is to understand how visual attention interacts with motion perception and visuo-motor systems to track the motion of target objects. Funding is provided by the National Eye Institute of the National Institutes of Health. [ top ]