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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.

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.

Sarah is in her fourth 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 third-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 second-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.

After graduating from Duke in 2008 Ricky spent the summer in Alaska and then went to teach English in Turkey and Germany. Ricky likes climbing, running, yoga, reading, gardening, Wittgenstein, drumming, pencil sketches, Nietzsche, and crossfit (he also likes fresh fruit and piano and lists).

August, who just transferred to Duke in the Fall 2009, is a junior neuroscience major. Her interests include how varying drug combinations can affect the brain and behavior, as well as bioethics and the implications of our seemingly infinite human curiosity and capabilities. An avid sports fan, she loves to watch LOST and has a strong affinity for film and tv scores.

Anamika Saha is a first year undergraduate student at Trinity. She is following the pre-med track and currently has no plans for a major nor does she know what she wants to do in the medical field. Her interests in science range from neuroscience to psychology to perhaps dermatology; thus she is exploring her options at Duke. She hopes that one day she will get struck by a revelation and will suddenly know what she wants to accomplish as an undergraduate student(or in life). In the meanwhile, Anamika enjoys reading, talking, meeting new people, travelling, good food, exploring Duke, trying new things, and watching movies.

Adrivit is an absolutely clueless first-year student with interests ranging from neuroscience to astronomy to applied mathematics to finance to chaos theory to artificial intelligence. He is interested in learning more about the oddities of the visual cognition system of the brain, find the mathematical basis of the system and utilize the knowledge in building better AI systems. When not consumed by the ultra-cool stuff mentioned above he writes short-stories, sings Radiohead songs, does rock-climbing and watches movies. He is a huge fan of Chuck Palahniuk and believes that on a long enough time-line the survival rate for everyone drops to zero. His favorite pastime is lying on the main quad in the front of the chapel and looking up at the stars and forming random constellation patterns and giving out philosophy to anybody interested.

Tym is a fourth year Neuroscience major. He enjoys an austere lifestyle consisting of proper nutrition, a rigorous fitness program, cold showers and frequent isolation. He appreciates computers and furry rodents, especially of the amusing variety. He’s interested in many things neuroscience, including perception, memory, sleep, Alzheimer’s, autism, the impact of nutrition on cognitive function, cosmetic neurology, fMRI scanners, debates over theory of mind, any new in-vivo imaging technique and anything which makes the typical New York Times reader say 'oh my!'