Principal Investigator | Lab Manager | Steve Franconeri is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at Northwestern. His research is on visual attention, visual structure representation, number perception, and object tracking. His lab often accepts research volunteers, independent study students, and workstudy programmers. Please contact him if you are interested. |
Mark Schurgin is the current lab manager of the vision lab. Having graduated from Vassar College in 2010 with a BA in Psychology and Political Theory, Mark's research interests lie broadly in the domain of cognitive psychology and visual perception.
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We are always looking for enthusiastic undergraduates interested in learning about visual cognition research. |
Graduate Students |
Heeyoung Choo graduated Yonsei University (in Seoul, South Korea) with a M.A. in Psychology in 2006. Her academic interests involve the summary statistics of visual features, number perception, and visual selection. |
Yangqing (Lucie) Xu graduated from Lawrence University with a B.A. in Psychology. Her research interests include mechanisms of visual attention, visual illusions, & number perception. |
Stacey Parrott graduated from Lake Forest College with a BA in Psychology and Spanish. Her interests encompass the factors that influence spatial representations, and how cognitive maps are used in visual information processing. |
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Undergraduates |
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Asim Ahmed(Cognitive Science, 2013) |
Bobby Barnes(Materials Science, Cognitive Science minor, 2015) |
Kayla Grayson(Psychology, Math & Dance minors, 2013) |
Thidar Khine (Psychology & Biology, Spanish minor, 2015) |
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Veronica Lee(Psychology, BIP minor, 2014) |
Emily Rockoff(Psychology & Art History, 2012) |
Ben Schmidt (Psychology & Biology, 2013) |
George Wheaton(Computer Science, 2013) |
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Alumni |
Doug Bemis (Psychology Ph.D. program at NYU) |
Ilana Feldman (University of Illinois Chicago Psy.D. program) |
John Froberg (Ph.D. Program in Biomedical Science at Harvard) |
Sarah Helseth (Clinical Psychology Ph.D. Program, Florida International University) |
Sumeeth Jonathan |
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Claudia Lau |
Brian Levinthal (Valve Software, Seattle WA) |
Jeff Lin (Ph.D. program at the University of Washington) |
Trixie Lipke (Medical school, University of Wisconsin - Madison) |
Roxana Malene (Law School, Case Western Reserve University) |
Sally Martinez (Medical school, University of Wisconsin - Madison) |
Jeff Nelson (Law School, Loyola) |
Hyunyoung Park (Ph.D. Program in Psychology, Vanderbilt University) |
Jessica Roth (Medical School, UIC) |
Jason Scimeca (Ph.D. Program in Psychology, Brown University) |
Derek Tam (Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University) |
Hyejin Yang |
Scott Yasinow (Opthomology program, Northeastern Ohio Universities Colleges of Medicine) |