Through my research, I seek to understand how the mind processes incoming physical information from the world, and how that processing affects behaviour.

My focus is to understand how low-level and mid-level features (e.g., orientation statistics, symmetry, etc.) form high-level representations of real-world objects and scenes. My research also explores how these representations influence several aspects of cognition - i.e., visual attention, memory formation, and emotional appraisals.

I outline my broad topics of interest below.