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.

Manager

Lizzie Hoyt

Lizzie is the lab manager as well as a collaborator on research using fMRI to study visual cognition, memory, and public health.  Prior to joining the Chun lab she worked at the Yale Child Study Center for three years conducting research on early parenting and autism using fMRI.  She has a B.A. in Psychology from Pomona College in Claremont, California.

Postdoctoral Fellows

Timothy Vickery, Ph.D.[homepage]
Tim studies visual cognition and decision-making. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard University working with Yuhong Jiang.

Graduate Students

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, and she is also a member of Jamie Mazer's neurobiology laboratory.  She has a B.S. in Neuroscience from Brandeis University.  Her graduate training is funded by an NSF graduate fellowship and NIH predoctoral NRSA. 

Jeremy Shen, B.S.
Jeremy is doing research on visual search, reward-learning, and decision making. He graduated from Harvard University. 

Sarah Shultz, B.A.
Sarah does research in visual cognition, especially in relation towards understanding deficits in autism. She graduated from McGill University, and her training is supported by an NSF graduate fellowship and NSERC fellowship. 

Alice Albrecht, B.A.
Alice studies visual cognition.  She is a member of Brian Scholl's Perception and Cognition Laboratory. She graduated from the University of San Francisco and worked in Lynn Robertson's lab at UC Berkeley before coming to Yale.

Undergraduate Students

Samuel Norman-Haignere

Vina Pulido

Alyssa Nguyen-Phuc

Harrison Korn

Alyssa Nguyen-Phuc

Emily Yudofsky

Beanie Meadow

Alumni Researchers

Yuhong Jiang, Ph.D. [homepage]
Yuhong received her Yale degree in 2000.  After a postdoctoral fellowship at MIT, and an Assistant Professorship in the Psychology Department at Harvard University, she is now an Associate Professor at the University of Minnesota. 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.  She was a postdoctoral fellow at Yale School of Medicine, a Research Assistant Professor at the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Pennsylvania, and is now an Assistant Professor at Temple University.

Do-Joon Yi, Ph.D. [homepage]
Do-joon received his Ph.D. in 2005 from Yale University.  He is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea.

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 an Assistant Professor at Vanderbilt.

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 was funded by an NIH NRSA, and he is now an Assistant Professor at the University of New Hampshire.

Soojin Park, Ph.D. [homepage]
Soojin received her Yale degree in 2008, and she is now a postdoctoral fellow with Aude Oliva at MIT.

Justin Junge, Ph.D.
Justin received his Yale degree in 2008, and he is now a postdoctoral fellow with Dan Dennett at Tufts University.

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.  After four years with our lab, she has now returned to Harvard as an Assistant Professor in Psychology.

Alumni Undergraduate

Researchers in the Field

Kao-ping Chua, B.S., Vanderbilt University
Kao received his M.D. from Washington University Medical School.

Todd Kelley, B.S., Vanderbilt University
Todd received his Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University working with Steve Yantis.  He is now at University College London working with Nilli Lavie.

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 at UC Berkeley after completing a Marshall Scholarship in England.

Jenika Beck, B.A., Yale University
Jenika is currently a graduate student at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.