Contact Information
Lab Website
(615) 322-4595
534 Wilson Hall
Research Area
Education
Ph.D., Harvard University, 2000
Curriculum Vitae
Advising
Adriane E. Seiffert
Assistant Professor of Psychology
Adriane Seiffert's research is directed towards understanding how visual information that changes over time is assimilated into mental representations that direct actions. Traditional investigations in psychology have emphasized the static; for example, how people recognize objects, how people remember lists, or how people attend to images. Now is the time to move forward by recognizing that these abilities are inherently dynamic and exploring the active nature of recognition, memory and attention. In the Perception, Attention and Control lab, Seiffert and her colleagues are learning how the attributes people see shape where they attend, how they look and what they expect to see later.
Read more about Seiffert's projects on the Perception, Attention & Control Lab website.
Representative Publications
- Jardine, N. & Seiffert, A. E. (2011). Tracking objects that move where they are headed. Attention, Perception & Psychophysics, 73, 2168-2179.
- Thomas, L. E. & Seiffert, A. E. (2011). How many objects are you worth?: Quantification of the self-motion load on multiple object tracking. Frontiers in Cognition. 2, 245, 1-5.
- Tombu, M. & Seiffert, A. E. (2011). Tracking planets and moons: mechanisms of object tracking revealed with a new paradigm. Attention, Perception & Psychophysics, 73(3), 738-750.
- Thomas, L. & Seiffert, A. E. (2010). Self-motion impairs multiple object tracking. Cognition, 117(1), 80-86.
- St. Clair, R. L., Huff, M. & Seiffert, A. E. (2010). Conflicting motion information impairs multiple object tracking. Journal of Vision, 10(4), 18.
- Fehd, H. & Seiffert, A. E. (2010). Looking at the center of the targets helps multiple object tracking. Journal of Vision.
- Dewey, J., Seiffert, A. E. & Carr, T. (2010) Taking Credit for Success: The Phenomenology of Control in a Goal-Directed Task. Consciousness & Cognition. doi:10.1016/j.concog.2009.09.007
- Ko, P. C. & Seiffert, A. E. (2009). Updating objects in visual short-term memory is feature selective.
- Tombu, M. & Seiffert, A. E. (2008). Attentional costs in multiple-object tracking. Cognition, 108(1), 1-25.
- Fehd, H. M. & Seiffert, A. E. (2008). Eye movements during multiple object tracking: Where do participants look? Cognition, 108(1), 201-209.
- Sohn, W. Y. & Seiffert, A. E. (2006). Motion aftereffects specific to surface depth order: Beyond binocular disparity. Journal of Vision, 6(2), 119-131.