University of Queensland, Australia www.paulduxlab.org What does your research focus on? Our world constantly serves up far more sensory information than can be processed at the level of awareness. Thus, it is vital that humans are able to sort the important information from the irrelevant, and select the correct responses More
University of Southern California – Brain and Creativity Institute and the Rossier School of Education www-bcf.usc.edu/~immordin/ What does your research focus on? I use an interdisciplinary approach that combines affective and social neuroscience, human development psychology, and educational psychology. My research has two branches: One focuses on the development of More
University of Western Australia, Australia http://www.uwa.edu.au/people/shayne.loft What does your research focus on? My research goal is to conduct theory-driven research to uncover the mechanisms that underlie human performance in safety-critical work contexts. My general approach is to observe performance in complex work systems (e.g., air traffic control, submarine track management More
University of Colorado at Boulder http://talyarkoni.org What does your research focus on? Most of my current research focuses on what you might call psychoinformatics: the application of information technology to psychology, with the aim of advancing our ability to study the human mind and brain. I’m interested in developing new More
University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia What does your research focus on? I am a social psychologist interested in the causes and consequences of anger and aggression. The work in my laboratory takes a wide-ranging approach to understanding these phenomena in that we investigate psychological and biological variables and More
Beijing Normal University, China http://psychbrain.bnu.edu.cn/home/yanchaobi What does your research focus on? My current research focuses on the functional and neural architecture of concepts — the meaning of words, pictures, and sounds. What drew you to this line of research? Why is it exciting to you? My earlier work was on More
