Attention & Perception Talk Series

Links to the speaker's website and and talk information will be added as the semester goes along. Talks are online (Zoom link) unless otherwise specified. In-person talks are held in Room 819. As scheduling is ongoing, some of the "free" slots may be filled.

Spring 2026

• Yifan Ding (Illinois) — Understanding Inattentional Blindness — The Effects of Individual Differences and Load

  January 27th, 2026 (in-person)

  Inattentional Blindness (IB) occurs when observers fail to notice unexpected objects while engaged in an attention-demanding task. This talk synthesizes completed works and future proposals regarding the predictors of IB. First, I will discuss a large-scale registered report investigating whether stable individual differences, such as cognitive capacity or personality traits, can predict noticing of an unexpected object. I will then present a series of experiments examining the interplay between perceptual and cognitive load to determine how these two interact to affect noticing. Finally, I will propose a new line of research investigating the role of active suppression in multiple object tracking (MOT) and the influence of visual transients on attention capture.

• 02/03 — Nick Gaspelin (Missouri)
• 02/10 — Kirsten Adam (Rice)
• 02/17 — Don Moore (Berkeley Haas)
• 02/24 — Alice O'Toole (UT Dallas)
• 03/03 — Steve Haroz
• 03/10 — Gary Lupyan (Wisconsin)
• 03/14-03/22 — Spring Break
• 03/24 — Viola Stoermer (Dartmouth)
• 03/31 — Necdet Gurkan (U. of Missouri—St. Louis)
• 04/07 — meeting pending
• 04/14 — Stephen Hupp (SIUE)
• 04/21 — Kushin Mukherjee (Stanford)
• 04/28 — meeting pending
• 05/05 — Alon Hafri (U. of Delaware)