Welcome!

       
We employ a wide array of cognitive neuroscience and psychological research methods, including behavioral psychophysics, fMRI, EEG, MEG, computational modeling, and TMS to investigate how attention affects visual perception.

 We are located in the Cognition and Perception program of the NYU Department of Psychology and associated with the Center for Neural Science under the supervision of Professor Marisa Carrasco
 

News

  • Congratulations to Jasmine Pan, for winning 1st place for her poster at the NYU Undergraduate Research Conference!
  • Congratulations to Xiuyun Wu, for winning 1st place for her poster at the NYU Annual Master's Research Conference!

 


Contact us

If you wish to participate in one of our studies, please email us at carrascolabnyu@gmail.com

Phone: 212.998.3894  
Fax: 212.995.4349
6 Washington Place, Rm 970
New York, NY 10003

Recent Publications

  • Barbot A, Liu S, Kimchi R & Carrasco M (In Press). Attention enhances apparent perceptual organization. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review.
  • Poletti M, Rucci M & Carrasco M  (2017). Selective attention within the foveola. Nature Neuroscience. doi:10.1038/nn.4622 [pdf]
  • Yashar A, White A L, Fang W & Carrasco M (2017). Feature singletons attract spatial attention independently of feature priming. Journal of Vision, 17(9):7, 1–18, doi:10.1167/17.9.7. [pdf]
  • Li  HH, Rankin  J, Rinzel J, Carrasco M & Heeger DJ (2017). Attention model of binocular rivalry.  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. [pdf]
  • Dugué L,  Merriam EP, Heeger DJ  &  Carrasco M (2017). Specific visual sub-regions of TPJ mediate reorienting of spatial attention. Cerebral Cortex [pdf]
  • Barbot A & Carrasco M (2017). Attention modifies spatial resolution according to task demands. Psychological Science [pdf] [supplementary material]
  • Dugué L, Xue AM & Carrasco M (2017). Distinct perceptual rhythms for feature and conjunction searches. Journal of Vision [pdf]
  • Dankner Y, Shalev L, Carrasco M & Yuval-Greenberg S (2017). Pre-stimulus inhibition of saccades in adults with and without ADHD as an index for temporal expectations.  Psychological Science [pdf]
  • Denison RN, Heeger DJ & Carrasco M (2017). Attention flexibly trades off across points in time.  Psychonomic Bulletin & Review [pdf] [supplementary material

Current Experiments: 

To participate in any of our experiments, please email the lab at carrascolabnyu@gmail.com with the study you would like to participate in as the subject line:    

Attention in Adults with ADD/ADHD
Experimenter: Mariel Roberts
Requirements: M or F, 18-65 yrs; normal to corrected-to-normal vision; clinically diagnosed with ADD/ADHD; must be off medication within 24 hours of experiment 
Sessions: Two 1-hr behavioral sessions to take place on separate but not necessarily consecutive days
Rate: $15 per hour for behavioral sessions