Meta's Newest PhD Research Fellow- Karolina Krzys!

Congratulations to Karolina Krzys for being awarded a Meta (Facebook) PhD Research Fellowship for her work in AR/VR Perception, Cognition and Action!

The Meta PhD Research Fellowship Program awards PhD candidates conducting cutting-edge research in emerging topics across computer science and engineering, including AI system hardware/software co-design, blockchain and cryptoeconomics, human-computer interaction, programming languages, and AR/VR future technologies.

Meta’s 2022 PhD Research Fellow- Karolina Krzys

Karolina is currently taking advantage of Virtual Reality technology to explore cognitive processing across various tasks including visual perception, attention, navigation, and memory.

Her current research seeks to identify mechanisms underlying attentional prioritization of space near the body, such as implication of the visuomotor system or susceptibility to modulation by other cognitive processes.

She hopes to leverage latest advancements in display technology to broaden our understanding of how attention is deployed across depth of 3D space.

We are all so proud of Karolina’s achievement and we look forward to seeing her continue to succeed!

New Article Feature in Psychonomic Society

Our work has been featured in a new article by the Psychonomic Society! Check out this article for a look at some of the attentional research that Dr. Castelhano and our former lab member Effie Pereira have been conducting recently!

https://featuredcontent.psychonomic.org/sensory-information-goals-and-prior-knowledge-come-together-to-capture-attention/

Victoria Day Long Weekend

For whatever long weekends mean in this age, we hope you’re staying safe and are able to spend quality time, either over the phone, online, or within your household, with the ones you love this weekend. It’s odd to think this weekend is usually synonymous with the beginning of summer and spending more time outdoors. And while this summer term comes with feelings of uncertainty, may hope and optimism stay at the forefront of everyone’s mind as we navigate this new world.

Happy Victoria Day from the QVCL

We're Recruiting Lab Assistants!

With the 2019-2020 academic year getting into full swing, the QVCL is looking to expand our team! If you’re a Queen’s undergraduate student looking for some psychology research experience and are interested in learning more about visual cognition, please email qvcl.general@gmail.com with the subject line “Lab Assistant Position” along with your CV and unofficial transcript.

All the best this school year!

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year from QVCL!

In 2019 you can get involved with our projects as a Research Assistant, volunteer as a participant in our new studies, or just catch up with our new publications.

Interested? Reach out to qvcl.coord@gmail.com to apply as an RA, or head over to qvcl.ca/get-involved to volunteer as a participant!

Happy Holidays from QVCL

The QVCL team wants to wish everyone a happy holiday, and all the best during their winter break. This semester was an exciting one - we completed several studies, sent researchers abroad to share their work, and started up new research for the new year.

Thank you to everyone who contributed to our research, whether as a researcher or participant. We’re excited to see everyone back at it in January.

Happy Holidays!

QVCL Researcher, Ryo, Wins Award

We’re offering a warm congratulations to Ryo Tachibana, a post-doctoral researcher with QVCL who recently won the Queen’s University Post-Doctoral Travel Award. This award is intended to encourage post-doctoral fellows to travel to conferences and present their scholarly work.

Ryo studies visual cognition in how it relates to parafoveal processing, and more. He is currently working on several studies that consider scene context in pre-processing of target stimuli.

Congratulations, Ryo!

Congratulations, Louisa!

QVCL is extending a warm congratulations to Louisa Man who successfully defended her Masters thesis this week. Louisa has been an incredible addition to the QVCL team, bringing a clinical framework to our cognitive lab for just over two years. In her time here, Louisa has overseen dozens of projects and challenged everyone in the lab to push their boundaries with her supportive and engaging perspective.

We are excited to see Louisa return to QVCL to complete her PhD in Clinical Psychology under the supervision of Dr. Castelhano. We are sure her new projects will expand the potential of the lab even further, and enlighten the connections between what we see and who we are.

Congratulations, Louisa!

Interested in joining QVCL as a researcher? Email qvcl.coord@gmail.com or visit our Get Involved page for more information!

Looking Toward Another Academic Year

QVCL would like to extend a thank you to all researchers, participants, and supporters of our research throughout the summer of 2018. This summer, we ran six studies, saw over 150 participants come through the lab, and all with a team of three research assistants, a lab coordinator and lab programmer, three graduate researchers, and a post-doctoral fellow! 

Studies included eye-tracking tasks and visual search, push-button paradigms, MRI research, and more, all with the intention to better understand visual cognition and perception. Based on the hard work of our researchers, and the incredible participation of Queen's students and Kingston community members, we truly believe we're making a difference in our field!

In the upcoming year, we're branching out into new studies, tasks, and research questions which, we hope, will help to round-out our understanding of visual cognition, delve deeper into the ways in which we process visual information, and acknowledge the differences amongst all those who perceive. We can't wait!

If you want to get involved in our research, whether as a volunteer or participant, we would be excited to hear from you. Reach out to us at qvcl.general@gmail.com or visit our get involved page!