Post date: Nov 1, 2018 8:42:36 PM
The lab was recently awarded a 3 year grant from the NIH National Eye Institute.
This research will explore how rules that have been learned to categorize simple objects transfer to the process of visual search. We know that there are separate learning systems in the brain that contribute to learning different types of classification rules (e.g., some rules are easy to say, some are difficult to convey in words). In classification research, the object to be classified is usually presented foveally (i.e., the observer looks directly at the stimulus to classify it). In the natural environment, though, we commonly classify objects that are in the periphery - where we are not directly looking. The current research will examine if and when classification of items in the periphery during a visual search task differ from classification of foveated objects.
This project is in collaboration with Dr Joseph Schmidt and Dr. Mark Neider.