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<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><span class="m_-7021651404329512418gmail-m_-766704582854069421gmail-m_7481751637794328071gmail-il">The</span> following laboratory groups are accepting new members <span class="m_-7021651404329512418gmail-m_-766704582854069421gmail-m_7481751637794328071gmail-il">for</span> <span class="m_-7021651404329512418gmail-m_-766704582854069421gmail-m_7481751637794328071gmail-il">the</span> upcoming <span class="m_-7021651404329512418gmail-m_-766704582854069421gmail-m_7481751637794328071gmail-il">year</span>:</span></p>
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<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">The <b>Eye Movements and Cognition Lab,</b></span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"> directed by <b>Dr. Elizabeth Schotter,</b> applies advanced methods in eye tracking, ERPs, statistical analysis, and computational modeling
to study a range <span class="m_-7021651404329512418gmail-m_-766704582854069421gmail-m_7481751637794328071gmail-il">of</span> cognitive science questions, in particular understanding <span class="m_-7021651404329512418gmail-m_-766704582854069421gmail-m_7481751637794328071gmail-il">the</span> component
processes involved in reading and language processing, visual cognition and decision making, and attention</span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:12.8px">.</span><span style="font-size:12.8px;color:rgb(34,34,34)"> </span><a href="https://emac-usf.com/" style="font-size:12.8px" target="_blank">Lab
website</a><span style="font-size:12.8px;color:rgb(34,34,34)">, <a href="mailto:eschotter@usf.edu" target="_blank">eschotter@usf.edu</a></span><span style="font-size:12.8px;color:rgb(34,34,34)">.</span></p>
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<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:12.8px"><span class="m_-7021651404329512418gmail-m_-766704582854069421gmail-m_7481751637794328071gmail-il">The</span><b> Dense Sensor Array EEG Cognitive Neuroscience Lab</b>, directed by <b>Dr. Geoffrey Potts,</b></span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:12.8px"> examines
issues <span class="m_-7021651404329512418gmail-m_-766704582854069421gmail-m_7481751637794328071gmail-il">at</span> <span class="m_-7021651404329512418gmail-m_-766704582854069421gmail-m_7481751637794328071gmail-il">the</span> boundaries <span class="m_-7021651404329512418gmail-m_-766704582854069421gmail-m_7481751637794328071gmail-il">of</span> cognitive,
social, and clinical neuroscience. Research areas include </span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:12.8px"><span class="m_-7021651404329512418gmail-m_-766704582854069421gmail-m_7481751637794328071gmail-il">the</span> nature <span class="m_-7021651404329512418gmail-m_-766704582854069421gmail-m_7481751637794328071gmail-il">of</span> <span class="m_-7021651404329512418gmail-m_-766704582854069421gmail-m_7481751637794328071gmail-il">the</span> brain's
response to novel and to rare events, </span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:12.8px"><span class="m_-7021651404329512418gmail-m_-766704582854069421gmail-m_7481751637794328071gmail-il">the</span> role <span class="m_-7021651404329512418gmail-m_-766704582854069421gmail-m_7481751637794328071gmail-il">of</span> neural
reward and punishment expectation systems in decision-making,</span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:12.8px">how attention may arise from interaction between neural systems <span class="m_-7021651404329512418gmail-m_-766704582854069421gmail-m_7481751637794328071gmail-il">of</span> perception
and motivation, and <span class="m_-7021651404329512418gmail-m_-766704582854069421gmail-m_7481751637794328071gmail-il">the</span> assessment <span class="m_-7021651404329512418gmail-m_-766704582854069421gmail-m_7481751637794328071gmail-il">of</span> executive
functions</span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:12.8px">.</span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small"> </span><a href="mailto:gfpotts@usf.edu" style="font-size:12.8px;color:blue;font-family:verdana,sans-serif,arial;line-height:20px" target="_blank">gfpotts@usf.edu</a><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small">.</span></p>
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<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:"segoe ui",sans-serif;font-size:12.6667px;line-height:13.5533px"><span class="m_-7021651404329512418gmail-m_-766704582854069421gmail-m_7481751637794328071gmail-il">The</span> </span><b style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:"segoe ui",sans-serif;font-size:12.6667px;line-height:13.5533px">Judgment
& Decision Making Lab,</b><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:"segoe ui",sans-serif;font-size:12.6667px;line-height:13.5533px"> directed by </span><b style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:"segoe ui",sans-serif;font-size:12.6667px;line-height:13.5533px">Dr.
Sandra Schneider</b><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:"segoe ui",sans-serif;font-size:12.6667px;line-height:13.5533px">, studies cognitive and motivational influences on decision making, with a focus on learning more about how people come to understand
and react to risk and uncertainty. <span class="m_-7021651404329512418gmail-m_-766704582854069421gmail-m_7481751637794328071gmail-il">Our</span> recent studies evaluate how problem representation, including context, can assist or undermine people’s understanding
and choices in both good and bad situations</span><span style="font-family:"segoe ui",sans-serif;font-size:12.6667px;color:rgb(34,34,34)">.</span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:"segoe ui",sans-serif;font-size:12.6667px;line-height:13.5533px"> </span><a href="http://labs.cas.usf.edu/jdm/" class="m_-7021651404329512418gmail-m_-766704582854069421gmail-m_7481751637794328071gmail-m_4886740181022218559gmail-m_4190252663879562132gmail-m_-1301529929180809913gmail-m_-6687537349407127447OWAAutoLink" id="m_-7021651404329512418gmail-m_-766704582854069421gmail-m_7481751637794328071gmail-m_4886740181022218559gmail-m_4190252663879562132gmail-m_-1301529929180809913gmail-m_-6687537349407127447LPlnk983200" style="font-family:"segoe ui",sans-serif;font-size:12.6667px;line-height:13.5533px" target="_blank">Lab
Website</a>,<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:"segoe ui",sans-serif;font-size:12.6667px;line-height:13.5533px"> </span><a href="http://sandra@usf.edu/" style="font-family:"segoe ui",sans-serif;font-size:12.6667px;line-height:13.5533px" target="_blank"><font face="segoe ui, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12.6667px;line-height:13.5533px">sandra</span></font><span style="font-size:12.79px;line-height:13.5533px">@usf.edu</span></a><span style="font-size:12.8px">.</span></p>
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<div style="font-size:12.8px"><span class="m_-7021651404329512418gmail-m_-766704582854069421gmail-m_7481751637794328071gmail-il">The</span> <b>Memory Modeling Lab,</b> co-directed by <b>Dr. Kenneth Malmberg</b> and<b> </b><b style="font-size:12.8px">Dr. Chad
Dubé, </b><span style="font-size:12.8px">conducts research on recognition memory and decision-making, using a variety <span class="m_-7021651404329512418gmail-m_-766704582854069421gmail-m_7481751637794328071gmail-il">of</span> methods including behavioral
experiments, computational modeling, psychophysics, and EEG (</span><b style="font-size:12.8px">Dr. Dubé</b><span style="font-size:12.8px">)</span><span style="font-size:12.8px"> and develops and tests formal models </span><span class="m_-7021651404329512418gmail-m_-766704582854069421gmail-m_7481751637794328071gmail-il" style="font-size:12.8px">of</span><span style="font-size:12.8px"> human
memory (</span><b style="font-size:12.8px">Dr. Malmberg</b><span style="font-size:12.8px">)</span><span style="font-size:12.8px">. Dr. Dubé's aim <span class="m_-7021651404329512418gmail-m_-766704582854069421gmail-m_7481751637794328071gmail-il">is</span> to
understand <span class="m_-7021651404329512418gmail-m_-766704582854069421gmail-m_7481751637794328071gmail-il">the</span> basic processes involved in recognition, and <span class="m_-7021651404329512418gmail-m_-766704582854069421gmail-m_7481751637794328071gmail-il">his</span> approach
borrows from principles discovered by computational neuroscientists in combination with ideas developed in <span class="m_-7021651404329512418gmail-m_-766704582854069421gmail-m_7481751637794328071gmail-il">the</span> cognitive modeling literature. He takes
a broad and comprehensive approach to recognition, stressing <span class="m_-7021651404329512418gmail-m_-766704582854069421gmail-m_7481751637794328071gmail-il">the</span> importance <span class="m_-7021651404329512418gmail-m_-766704582854069421gmail-m_7481751637794328071gmail-il">of</span> attention
and perception in memory encoding and retrieval. </span><a href="mailto:chaddube@usf.edu" style="font-size:12.8px" target="_blank">chaddube@usf.edu</a><span style="font-size:12.8px">.</span></div>
<div style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Dr. Malmberg's current research interests concern understanding <span class="m_-7021651404329512418gmail-m_-766704582854069421gmail-m_7481751637794328071gmail-il">the</span> relationship between memory
and perception, Bayesian artificial intelligence approaches to autobiographical memory, and developing more efficient neuropsychological tests. <a href="mailto:malmberg@usf.edu" target="_blank">malmberg@usf.edu</a>.</span></div>
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<div style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:small">The </span><span style="font-size:small"><b>Attention and Scene Perception Lab,
</b>directed by</span><span style="font-size:12.8px"> </span><b style="font-size:12.8px">Dr. Thomas Sanocki,</b><span style="font-size:small"> examines human attention and everyday scene perception, and related issues in visual cognition. The lab develops novel
behavioral methods, including open-ended report which yields insights into the richness of human perceptual experience. Recent topics include the time course of perceptual processes, effects of attention and attentional set, the bandwidth of perceptual experience,
and relations between art, design, and perception.</span></div>
<div style="font-size:12.8px"><a href="http://chuma.cas.usf.edu/~sanocki/home.htm" style="font-size:12.8px" target="_blank">Lab Website</a><span style="font-size:12.8px">. </span><a href="mailto:sanocki@usf.edu" style="font-size:12.8px" target="_blank">sanocki@usf.edu</a><span style="font-size:12.8px">.</span><span style="font-size:small"><br>
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