Matt Robison, Memory and Attention Control Lab Post-Doc, was recently featured in an Arizona State University article discussing attention, the locus coeruleus (LC), and Arizona Cardinal football.
Click the link to read the full interview or watch part of the interview below.
Can social media breaks make you more productive?
Last week local evening news reporter and weather anchor Kristy Siefkin visited the Memory and Attention Control Laboratory to talk with Gene Brewer about the Mandela Effect.
This post will be updated with the video segment after it airs, but in the meantime here are Kristy and Brian Kae of Fox 10 news wearing our new 256-electrode EGI caps.
Update 7/27/2017: The segment aired on 7/24/2017 and here is a link to view the segment and write-up.
As the Summer semester draws to a close, we wanted to take a moment to highlight our intern Rohan Tripathi. Rohan, a local high school student, spent the summer working with us on a variety of projects and presented findings at the Banner Sun Research Institute Intern poster session.
To read his full story follow this link.
Rohan Tripathi (left), Gene Brewer (middle), & Derek Ellis (right)
This video is a bit late to the party, but after much trial and error we have a product we would like to distribute.
Once a year Arizona State University hosts Night of the Open Door. This event is setup as a public outreach event that allows people to tour the campus and see the various projects that researchers, students, and staff are working on.
This is our second time participating in the event and we wanted to come up with a way to teach people about memory research. After some brain storming we thought a fun way to do so would be to show off virtual reality based research and do a real-time graphing demonstration.
The video will explain some of the details of the event and the task used. It will also explain how we created the graphs and captured the video. Ultimately, this video may be updated over time but we wanted to share it with everyone before the opportunity passed.
A big thanks to our RAs Thomas Poniatowski, Shuangting Li, Jen Jondac, Wen Yu, Nowed Patwary, and Alex Pruneda. A special thanks to Kimberly Wingert for organizing setup and breakdown. A big tip of the hat to Derek Ellis for his technical support and work on the video. Lastly, a thanks to ASU for hosting the event and allowing us to take part.
Coming May 7th, 2016 we will hosting a mini-conference on Oscillatory Dynamics.
The conference will include a multitude of guest speakers and insightful for both established researchers and undergraduates.
Here is a new publication from the MAClab published by Perspectives on Psychological Science. The focus of the project was the attempt to replicate Sripada, Kessler, and Jonides (2014). The project includes the work of several other groups and individuals.
Click this LINK for access.
This coming weekend members of the MAClab will be attending and presenting at Cognitive Neuroscience Society’s (2016) Annual Meeting in New York. Presenters will be Chris Blais (Research Faculty) and Blake Elliott (Undergraduate and future Fall 2016 graduate student). Gene Brewer, Director of the MAClab, will also be in attendance, so make sure to swing by and check out their posters. For those who cannot attend the posters they will be presenting are attached below.
Margarida Pitaes of the Arizona State University MAClab recently got her first publication. The article is titled “The Compensatory Role of Implementation Intentions for Young Adults with Low Working Memory Capacity”.
For those interested in reading the article click the link below.
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/acp.3151/abstract
Dr. Gene Brewer of the MAClab will be presenting at the SPARCS conference today, June 19th, at 3:15 PM. The talk will discuss aptitude and treatment interactions with a focus on using experimental and individual difference methodologies.
The talk will be live-broadcast online @
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