Our visual environment is complex and contains both target and
distractor objects. To navigate effectively, an ability to ignore visual
distractors is as important as being able to focus on target
information. While there has been a lot of research studying target
processing, understanding of how distractors are processed is less
clear. The goal of this research was to investigate how distractors are
processed. In part I, distraction was examined as a function of spatial
information available in the display. The motivation for this comparison

Novel Forms of Representation at the Juncture of Hippocampal and Posterior Parietal Systems for Spatial Mapping

My lab focuses on social judgments that children and adults make about themselves and other people. This talk will focus on three recent papers finding that the same actions and outcomes can be interpreted quite differently depending on the inferences that children and adults make about the action or outcome in question.  The same Inequality can be satisfying or unsatisfying depending on who creates it. The same statement of neutrality can be interpreted as radically different depending on the audience one is speaking to.

Placental Serotonin: a Potential Pathway for the Developmental Origins of Mental Disorders