Attention & Memory Lab
Our lab investigates human attention, memory, and language processes.
Specifically, we focus on peoples' ability (or inability) to control attention and how this interacts with instructions, external cues, and context to influence performance across a variety of tasks including selective attention, reading, memory, and tasks requiring the suppression of dominant (but inappropriate) responses.
In addition to examining individual differences in attentional control among young adults, we also test healthy older adults from the community to examine potential changes in control with age.
COLLABORATORS
- Dr. Julie Bugg and the Cognitive Control & Aging Lab at Washington University, St. Louis.
Bugg-Hutchison Lab Logo courtesy of Brooke Charbonneau
- Dr. Randy Engle and the Attention and Working Memory Lab at Georgia Tech University.
- Dr. Dave Balota and the Alzheimer's Disease Research Center at Washington University, St. Louis.
- Dr. Scott Monfort and the Neuromuscular Biomechanics Lab at MSU.
- Dr. Michelle Meade's Memory and Aging Lab at MSU.
- Dr. Jason Watson and the Cognitive Science Lab at CU Denver.
- Dr. Jim Neely and the Attention, Memory, and Priming Lab at University at Albany, SUNY.
CURRENT PHENOMENA INVESTIGATED INCLUDE...
- Instructional and proportional manipulations in conflict and semantic priming tasks.
- Potential Heart/Brain interactions in controlling attention.
- Examining focused attention versus mind wandering when controlling eye movements
- Discriminating healthy aging from the earliest stages of Alzheimer's Disease.
- Discrimination of "real" from "false" memories.
Lab Data Files
SEMANTIC PRIMING PROJECT
- visit Main SPP Interactive Database
- visit Complete Database Files page