Meet Our Team

MONICA CASTELHANO

My primary research interests are visual attention and visual memory and how they function in our everyday lives. Across various studies we investigate how people perceive, explore, search through and remember information from complex, natural stimuli (i.e., real-world scenes) using both behavioural and eye movement measures.

Karolina Krzys

PhD Candidate

My research background lies primarily in a domain of orientation in space and human navigation, which I am currently relating to a field of scene perception. By integrating these two approaches, I am hoping to further our understanding of how spatial updating that occurs during locomotion to novel viewpoints facilitate visual processing in scene recognition. Although my focus is on relation between the level of spatial awareness and eye movement patterns, I am currently taking an advantage of Virtual Reality technology to explore cognitive processing across various tasks including visual perception, attention, navigation, and memory.

Laura Li

PhD Candidate

As a PhD candidate in Cognitive Neuroscience, my research is primarily focused on exploring cognitive processing in relation to visual attention and memory. Using a combination of innovative tools including Virtual Reality (VR) technology, eye-tracking systems, and various behavioral measures, my work aims to better understand how individuals perceive and retain information from their surroundings, particularly in relation to natural (i.e., real-world) scenes.

Hannah Lum Smith

Master’s Candidate

I am a second year Cognitive Neuroscience MSc candidate. My previous research experience revolves around the topics of memory and visual cognition. Currently, I’m investigating the neural correlates of how scene perception is moderated by contextual predictions.

Kirsten skuterud

Lab Coordinator

I am a fifth year undergraduate psychology student at Queen’s and I am excited to be a part of the QVCL team as the lab coordinator. I am very interested in cognitive and clinical psychology research and I look forward to learning more about eye-tracking and virtual reality technology.

Sari pagurek van mossel

Software Developer

I’m a third year Computer Science student at Queen’s University, and am interested in computer graphics, visual cognition, and the intersection of computing with visual communication. I’m super excited to be a part of the QVCL team and to learn more about VR development.