Doug Addleman

I'm an assistant professor of psychology at Gonzaga University, where I teach a variety of classes related to cognitive psychology and neuroscience. I completed my PhD in May 2020 at the University of Minnesota in the Department of Psychology, advised by Vanessa Lee and Dan Kersten. Before joining Gonzaga, I did postdoctoral research at Dartmouth college with Viola Störmer.

My research investigates human perceptual cognition: how people reason about and gain knowledge of the perceptual world. In doing so, I use a range of tools from psychology and neuroscience, including human behavioral methods, eye-tracking, and EEG. Most of my research aims to understand how people focus on certain information to achieve their goals, a process called selective attention. I'm particularly interested in understanding how attention copes with distraction, how we learn to get better at attention with practice, and how attention differs in vision and audition. Check out my research page for more.

When I'm not working, I enjoy cooking, cycling, and the times my cat isn't trying to bite my feet.

See also my official faculty profile and my Gonzaga lab webpage.

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