People
Daryl Fougnie
Principal Investigator
Daryl is an associate professor in Psychology at NYU Abu Dhabi. His research attempts to characterize the amount that we can perceive, attend to, and remember about our environment. Daryl received a Ph.D. in Psychology from Vanderbilt University and was a postdoctoral researcher at Harvard University before joining NYUAD.
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Edyta Sasin
Postdoctoral Researcher
Edyta completed her PhD at the University of Groningen, Netherlands, where she investigated interactions between attention and working memory, using psychophysics and EEG. Her research interests lie in the intersection of visual perception and memory. Currently, she is interested in understanding mechanism of attentional selection and how selected information is remembered in short and long-term memory.
Aytac Karabay
Postdoctoral Researcher
Aytaç completed his Ph.D. and first postdoctoral project at the University of Groningen, Netherlands, where he investigated target identification and activity-silent states of working memory using psychophysics, modeling, and EEG. His research interests cover attentional selection, short-term memory maintenance and updating, and nutrition. He is currently interested in working memory representations and how working memory can flexibly maintain unprioritized or irrelevant content. www.aytackarabay.com
Ying Zhou
PhD Student
Ying completed her Bachelor and Master degrees at Zhejiang University, China, where she investigated binding representations in working memory using psychophysics. She is currently a PhD student at NYUAD. She investigates the format and control processes of working memory using a combination of psychophysics, fMRI and modelling. Specifically, what neural mechanisms underlying the probabilistic representation of working memory and how do people select these kinds of information?
Lab Alumni
Syaheed Jabar
Former Postdoctoral Researcher
Syaheed did his Ph.D in Psychology at the University of Waterloo, Canada, where he investigated the effects of probability on perception using a combination of psychophysics, eye-tracking, EEG, and computational modelling. His research interest is in understanding how acquired information from the environment affects perceptual decision-making. Specifically, what kinds of neural computations are necessary in order to accurately describe the way experience shapes performance?
Jenny Lin
Former Research Assistant and Former Capstone Student
Jenny was an undergraduate Psychology major at NYU Abu Dhabi Class of 2019. She is interested in why people fail to notice salient objects. She conducted research on inattentional blindness in vision under conditions of auditory distraction for her Capstone project. She then continues to work in the lab as a full-time research assistant. Jenny has begun studying her PhD degree in fall 2021 at Ohio State University, working with Julie Golomb and Andy Leber.
Garry Kong
Former Postdoctoral Researcher
Garry received his Ph.D in Psychology from the University of Sydney, where he studied visual search processes in heterogeneous displays using the genetic algorithm. His research interests span from perceptual to cognition, primarily in the visual domain. He studies these areas using psychophysics, psychometrics, eyetracking and mathematical modelling. Garry is currently an Assistant Professor at Waseda Institute for Advanced Study, Waseda University, Japan.
Alex Burmester
Former Postdoctoral Researcher
Alex received a Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of Queensland where he studied change blindness. His research utilizes psychophysics, computational modeling, and neuroimaging to understand how humans remember visual information over short periods of time.
Aire Raidvee
Former Postdoctoral Researcher
Aire received her Ph.D. from the University of Tartu, Estonia, where she studied the mechanisms of pooling visual information. Why is only a fraction of available visual information used in perceptual decisions? Aire explores this, and similar questions, using psychophysics, mathematical modeling, and eyetracking techniques.
Myriam Sbeiti
Former Undergraduate Researcher
Myriam was an undergraduate at NYU Tandon Class of 2018 majoring in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering. She has done previous research in stem cells, nanoparticles, and wood preservation in France and Germany. She hopes her broad experience in a variety of fields will provide her with a creative and innovative approach to tackle different kinds of problems.
Maija Honig
Former Research Assistant
Maija worked with Daryl and Wei Ji Ma at NYU. Her project has been published in PNAS:
Honig, M., Ma, W. J., & Fougnie, D. (2020). Humans incorporate trial-to-trial working memory uncertainty into rewarded decisions, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 117(15), 8391-8397.
Jessica Meehan
Former Capstone Student
Jesse was an undergraduate Psychology student at NYU Abu Dhabi Class of 2018 and conducted her Capstone project in the lab. Her work has been published in JOV:
Kong, G., Meehan, J., & Fougnie, D. (2020). Working memory is corrupted by strategic changes in search templates. Journal of Vision, 20(8):3, 1-10.