Interests include:

Cognitive Control and Attention

• Attention failures - Attentional capture, mind wandering, distraction

• Task-design influences on attention

• Inducing/manipulating use of cognitive control

• ADHD

Individual differences

• Working memory

• Cognitive training ("Brain training")

• Relationships between higher-order cognitive processes

Memory

• Prospective memory, relation to cognitive control

• Aging/Older adults

• Mild cognitive impairment, pre-clinical Alzheimer's disease

• Mild cognitive impairment, cancer/chemotherapy

Collaborations outside of Cog Psych (current and of future interest)

• Tech/engineering

  • Provides different/more sensitive measures of reactions and decisions reflecting cognition

  • Increase diversity and feasibility for data collection

  • Investigate tech-interaction effects on cognition

• Clinical populations

  • Addiction as related to working memory, cognitive training

• Biology

  • The influence of genetics and epigenetics on brain and behavior