Training

Thorough scientific training

Our goal is to help our students acquire:

• a deep understanding of the cognitive neuroscience of attention and cognitive control

• a solid experience in conducting behavioral, fMRI, and /or EEG research

• the ability to think critically and propose new ideas and experiments

• essential academic skills, including the ability to write manuscripts and grant proposals, present at conferences, and supervise/train junior researchers

Intellectual Stimulation

Our students investigate many topics, or combinations of topics, relating to attention and cognitive control. These include, but are not limited to:

• cognitive control and minimizing distraction from irrelevant stimuli

• interactions between cognitive control and social cognition

• neural bases of momentary lapses in attention

• cross-modal attention

• voluntary orienting of attention

• task switching

• effects of practice on attention

• interactions between attention and memory

• hemispheric asymmetries and interactions

Rich intellectual environment

Potential collaborations and/or co-supervision with a large number of brain and cognition researchers at University of Michigan (See Intellectual Environment)

Numerous seminars and talk series on brain and cognition (See Intellectual Environment)