Nick at the Faculty Excellence Award Ceremony at Mizzou in May 2026. Celebrating his election as a fellow of Association for Psychological Science (APS).
McNair Scholars Presentations and Honors Thesis Presentations at MPA in Spring 2026.
Congratulations to Tragan Chambers and Andrew Grassi!
Thanks to Dr. Keisuke Fukuda for giving an invited talk at Mizzou in Spring 2026. So many fun nature hikes in Columbia!
Annual Meeting of Psychonomic Society in Denver (Fall 2025). Nick won an Early Career Award (left). Yue Zhang gave her first Psychonomics talk (middle). Kaitlyn met Jeremy Wolfe (her paper has a title that is an homage to Jeremy's work). Other presentations by Xiaojin Ma and Chenye Bao. What a whirlwind!!!
Nick gives a talk for the NextGen Precision Neuroscience Series at the University of Missouri.
Celebratory dinner at VSS 2025 with the Luck and Gaspelin labs!
Yue Zhang, Xiaojin Ma, Steve Luck, Nick Gaspelin, John Kiat
Poster presentations at VSS 2025 from students past and present!
Special cameo: Keisuke Fukuda
Camryn Marteeny (honors student in the lab) presents her capstone project on attentional capture at Show-Me Research Week!
Psychonomics 2024 in Times Square. Yue Zhang (left) and Xiaojin Ma (right) both gave excellent posters! Nice work.
Our youngest research assistant (Elaine Gaspelin-DePree) prepares an eye-tracking participant (Mr. Piggy).
Xiaojin Ma completes her first ERP subject (and found the N2pc she was looking for)!
New lab at Columbia, MO (Fall 2023)!
(left to right: Kaitlyn Drennan, Nick Gaspelin, Yue Zhang)
Running into Isaac Savelson (prior honors student) at Psychonomics 2023!
Dr. Owen and Dr. Travis graduating with their Ph.D.s in super cool gowns. Congrats! They definitely earned it.
Good times at VSS with Brad Stilwell and Travis Talcott.
(Spring 2022)
Isaac Savelson accepting the Kovacs Award at Binghamton University. I'm so proud!
(Spring 2022)
Nick being interviewed by NPR's Jamie Floyd.
(Spring 2022)
Travis Talcott and Owen Adams present their first posters in the lab at the Mid-Atlantic Meeting for Attention (MAMA) in Summer 2019.
(special cameo: Cathleen Moore)
Lab Photo (Spring 2019)
Owen Adams, Travis Talcott, Nick Gaspelin & Victoria Tkacikova
Tisnue Jean-Baptiste (McNair Scholar) presents her poster at Psi Chi Research Fair (Spring 2019).
Victoria Tkacikova and Sophie Ambrosino running our first ERP experiment at Binghamton...which was soon published! (Spring 2018)
VSS Demo Night, 2017
Nick & Eric in a Forced Perspective Illusion
The Luck Lab (Spring 2017)
Andrew Stewart, Gi Yeul Bae, Felix Bacigalupo, Baby Felito, Nick Gaspelin, Orestis Pappioannou, Aaron Simmons, Steve Luck
The Ruthruff Lab (Fall 2010)
Nick Gaspelin, Eric Ruthruff, Kyunghun Jung, and other lab members.