Perception, Attention & Control Lab
PI: Adriane Seiffert
Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience
Vanderbilt University
Announcements & PACcolades
10/2/09: Adriane Seiffert and Frank Tong welcome their second child, William Charles Tong, born at 6:52 pm! The family of four is doing well, and the PAC lab hopes to see more photos in the upcoming weeks.
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!
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.
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