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. Steve is currently interested in the malleability of visual cognition and how prior experiences influence performance.

Matt studies visual attention, executive control, and how context and expertise affect these processes. In addition to training provided in a lab setting, Matt is interested in how real-life activities such as speaking multiple languages and playing video games can influence low- level cognitive processes.

Adam studies visual cognition, specifically how performance in laboratory-based attention tasks can relate to real world functioning. His work largely includes how the observer interacts with real world stimuli or how information and strategy can influence the guidance of attention, but Adam is also interested in cognitive fatigue and embodied cognition effects. Adam likes to tell lots of punny jokes!!

Kait is a fourth-year graduate student in the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience and the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience. She has been a primary member of the Mitroff lab since 2008, but she also collaborates with Marty Woldorff, Dave Madden, Alison Adcock, and Nancy Zucker. Kait is currently focusing on exploring a variety of influences on visual search performance. She investigates how direct training in the lab, expertise from outside the lab, individual differences, and environmental contexts alter and improve performance on visual search tasks, specifically multiple-target search. Kait has examined the effects of video-game playing, radiology expertise, symptoms of clinical disorders, and monetary motivation on search performance.

Stephen is a second-year graduate student in Psychology and Neuroscience. His background as an undergraduate was in visual perception with a focus on binocular rivalry and figure-ground segregation. Since then, he has shifted his focus to the study of attention, visual search, and processing outside of awareness. Specifically, his main interest lies in the nature of spacial and temporal visual search and the relationship between them.

Emma is a first-year grad student in the Cognitive Neuroscience Graduate Admitting Program. Her previous research has included psycholinguistics, animal models of depression, and visual memory. She is interested in how vision and attention are influenced by top-down factors, both intrinsic and extrinsic.

Sarah is in her final year of graduate school in Neurobiology. She is interested in multisensory integration, specifically studying auditory-visual interactions. Her primary affiliations is with the Woldorff Lab where she uses neural measures to examine these interactions, but she actively collaborates with the Mitroff lab to examine individual differences in multisensory processing.

Joseph is a fourth-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).

Elise graduated from the University of Michigan with a degree in Brain, Behavior and Cognitive Sciences and Spanish. She focused her studies on contingent attentional capture. In the lab she helps out on just about every project and is currently focusing on Boundary Extension and visual Weber-Fractions! She hopes to pursue a career in counseling. Outside of lab, Elise enjoys running, reading, all sorts of music, nature, and cute animals.

Grace is senior majoring in psychology and English. She joined the lab in January 2010 as a research assistant, helping with the lab’s visual search projects. In the following summer, she participated in the VIP program under the supervision of the Mitroff Lab studying individual differences in satisfaction of search. Last year Grace completed an independent study on the lab’s new project concerning “Thin Slices” and will hopefully start running subjects in late fall. After graduating, Grace wants to travel but ultimately she hopes to go to graduate school for clinical psychology. Grace has no tolerance for vegetables or bugs. She desperately wants a dog named Bear.

Matt is a Senior from New York who is majoring in Psychology and Economics. He enjoys both watching and playing sports, reading books and traveling to anywhere he’s never been before. He joined the lab to gain practical experience in the field of psychology that he is the most interested in.

Sylvia is a Senior this year and is majoring in Psychology with a certificate in Markets and Management Studies and a minor in French. She started in the lab this past summer for the Nike project, believing that testing a Nike product was a perfect blend of psychology with markets and management studies. Outside of the lab, Sylvia dances with Defining Movement, Duke’s premier multicultural fusion dance group, and Sabrosura, Duke’s Salsa dance troupe.

Eddie is a first year undergraduate interested in majoring in either Psychology or Neuroscience. He enjoys ducks, people, novel things, brains, music, anime, watching basketball, and browsing the internet! He is excited to be working in the lab!

Lydia is interested in becoming more involved with scientific research, and seeing how classroom learning is applied to real world discovery. After her undergraduate career, she hopes to go to medical school. At Duke, she is part of the Language House (LangDorm) and Engineers Without Borders. In her free time, she likes to travel, learn history, listen to music, and play tennis.

Krystina is a Junior and is majoring in Psychology with a double minor in Chemistry and Biology. She joined the lab in January 2012 to gain lab and research experience in psychology. After graduation she hopes to attend medical to pursue an M.D./Ph D. in clinical psychology. Outside of the lab Krystina volunteers at the Duke Eye Center, is a First- Year Advisory Counselor, is on the Executive Board of the Students of the Caribbean Association. She also enjoys watching reality television and taking naps.

Matt is a senior from New York. He is majoring in psychology, and was inspired to join the Mitroff Lab after taking Seeing and Knowing (a course he highly recommends) and having a chance to work with the Nike strobes. As a member of the lab, he hopes to gain research experience in the field of visual cognition. In his free time, Matt enjoys playing sports and watching movies. Lots of movies.

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