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Steve is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology & Neuroscience and a core member of Duke University's Center for Cognitive Neuroscience. Steve is interested in adult visual cognition, infant cognition, and the relationship between the two. Working with other labs (both at Duke and elsewhere), he is studying how we perceive the world the way we do and in what ways infant perception differs from that of our own.

Sarah is in her third year as a graduate student in the Interdisciplinary Program in Cognitive Neuroscience. She is interested in how information from different sensory systems (visual and auditory) comes together to form complete percepts of objects.

Joseph is a second-year IPCN student. He is interested in visual processing that may occur outside of awareness and, more broadly, the disconnect that exists between physical stimuli and our experienced percepts. He is currently working with event-related potentials (ERPs) to elucidate the neural correlates of subliminal face processing. He is also investigating the phenomenon of visual processing during motion-induced blindness (MIB).

Kait is a first-year grad student in the Interdisciplinary Program in Cognitive Neuroscience. She has a variety of interests within the field of visual perception, including visual working memory, perceptual learning, and change blindness. Currently, she is investigating individual differences in change detection strategies and examining the constraints of object files.

Jordan graduated from Duke University with a double major in Psychology (concentrating in cognitive psychology) and English in December 2008. His future plans include attending graduate school for cognitive psychology and learning how to play the guitar, but for now he is happy to fill in as lab manager. His current research interests involve the role of emotion and morality in cognition, but these are always subject to change.

Laura is a fourth-year undergraduate student majoring in Psychology with an emphasis in Neuroscience. She is interested in exploring the neural underpinnings of visual perception. She also is fascinated by brain mechanisms of individuals with extraordinary perceptual skills (e.g. synesthesia), as well as those of patients who have suffered brain damage.

Brittany is a fourth-year Psychology major with a Markets and Management Studies certificate. She is interested in visual processes such as the effect of external pressures on awareness in rare-target searches and the modal and amodal completion phenomena, as well as memory across the lifespan, particularly the creation of false memories.

Valentina is a first-year undergraduate student and plans on majoring in Psychology with a concentration in Neuroscience. She is interested in abnormal psychology, as well as how psychologists assess personality variants and behavioral disorders.

Natalie is a second-year Psychology major with a concentration in Social Psychology. She loves art and documentary photography and plans to earn a Documentary Studies Certificate. She is on Edens Quad Council and enjoys fulfilling days at the lab with data entry, filing, and coding. In her free time she likes to jump out of planes.