Lab Members

Director	Marvin M. Chun, Ph.D. [vita] Marvin employs functional neuroimaging (fMRI) and behavioral methods to study visual attention, memory, and perception. He received his B.A. from Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea. He earned his Ph.D. degree in 1994 from MIT, followed by an NIH postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard University. Prior to his current appointment as Professor of Psychology and the Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program, he was an Associate Professor at Vanderbilt University, and an Assistant Professor at Yale University. His research has been honored with a 2006 Troland Research Award from the National Academy of Sciences, a 2002 American Psychological Association (APA) Early Career Award, the 2000 Chase Memorial Award from the Department of Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University, and a 1998 APA Division 3 New Investigator Award. His research is funded by the NIH and NSF. He teaches Introduction to Psychology in Yale College, and he is the year 2007 recipient of the Yale University Phi Beta Kappa William DeVane Award for Teaching and Scholarship.
Research Associate	Yaoda Xu, Ph.D. [homepage] Yaoda studies attention and working memory using behavioral methods and fMRI. She received her degree from Molly Potter at MIT, and prior to joining our lab, she did postdoctoral research with Ken Nakayama at Harvard and Nancy Kanwisher at MIT. She is funded by her own NSF research grant.
Postdoctoral Fellows	Andrew Leber, Ph.D. [homepage] Andy's research interests are in attentional set, task-switching, and contextual learning. He received his degree from Johns Hopkins University working with Howard Egeth and Steve Yantis. His training is currently funded by an NIH NRSA.
Graduate Students	Justin Junge, B.A. Justin is interested in implicit attentional cuing. He has a B.A. in Psychology from Harvard University. Soojin Park, B.A. [homepage] Soojin studies scene representations and working memory in the brain using fMRI. She has a B.A. in Psychology from Yonsei University. Nicholas Turk-Browne, B.S. [homepage] Nick studies the intersection of visual cognition and memory, and he is also a member of Brian Scholl's Perception and Cognition Laboratory. He has a B.S. in Cognitive Science and Artificial Intelligence from the University of Toronto. His graduate training is funded by an NSERC fellowship. Julie Golomb, B.S. [homepage] Julie does research on working memory and attention using fMRI and eye tracking. She is a graduate student in the Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program at Yale. She has a B.S. in Neuroscience from Brandeis University. Her graduate training is funded by an NSF graduate fellowship. Jeremy Shen, B.S. Jeremy is doing research on visual search and associative learning. He graduated from Harvard University.
Research Assistant	Jenika Beck Yael Yungster
Alumni	Yuhong Jiang, Ph.D. [homepage] Yuhong received her Yale degree in 2000 and is currently an Assistant Professor of Psychology at Harvard University. She received an APA New Investigator Award for her publication on object substitution masking (Jiang & Chun, 2001). Ingrid Olson, Ph.D. [homepage] Ingrid received her Yale degree in 2000 and is currently a Research Assistant Professor at the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Pennsylvania. Do-Joon Yi, Ph.D. [homepage] Do-joon received his Ph.D. in 2005 from Yale University. He will begin a position as Assistant Professor of Psychology at Yonsei University in Spring, 2007. Steven Most, Ph.D. [homepage] Steve received his degree from Harvard University working with Dan Simons. He has been honored with a Cattell Award from the New York Academy of Sciences for his dissertation research on inattentional blindness. His training was funded by an NIH NRSA. He is now an Assistant Professor of Psychology at the University of Delaware Geoff Woodman, Ph.D. [homepage] Geoff received his degree from the University of Iowa working with Steve Luck and Shaun Vecera. He worked with Jeff Schall and Marvin Chun at Vanderbilt University with support from an NIH NRSA. He is currently a Research Assistant Professor at Vanderbilt.
Former Research Assistants (in the field)	Kao-ping Chua, B.S., Vanderbilt University Kao is currently a medical student at Washington University Medical School. Todd Kelley, B.S., Vanderbilt University Todd is currently a graduate student at Johns Hopkins University working with Steve Yantis. Tim Brady, B.A., Yale University Tim is currently a graduate student in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT. Rachel Denison, B.A., Yale University Rachel is currently a graduate student as a Marshall Scholar.