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Most visual scenes contain more information than a person can process, so we must choose the parts that will be processed more fully and the parts that will be processed less fully. Research in my lab examines questions about the mental mechanisms that underlie these decisions. For example: How do we choose which parts of a complex scene to process fully?; How do salient features in a scene, such as flashes of light or moving objects, determine what we will and will not process? What sorts of changes to a scene are easily noticed and which ones are often missed?
In our recent work we have discovered that holding one's hands near an object can change the visual processes that evaluate that object: We inspect things near our hands more thoroughly than things that are far away from our hands. One possible benefit of such behavior is that it would facilitate configuring our hands to successfully grasp nearby objects.
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- Psych 330 Sensation & Perception
- Psych 310 Experimental Psychology
- Psych 4182 Perception, Thought, & Action
- Psych 5505 Seeing
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I'm an avid do-it-yourselfer. I'll try working on anything: cars, computers, plumbing, you name it. I like to practice first with other people's things. I also enjoy traveling. If I don't speak I often can blend in in a lot of foreign places that I visit--but once I speak the illusion is destroyed. Lately I've become interested in photography because it seems very challenging to me--with much room for improvement. I also like to bake.
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Abrams, R. A., Davoli, C. C., Du, F., Knapp, W. J., & Paull, D. (2008). Altered vision near the hands. Cognition, 107, 1035-1047.
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Davoli, C. C., Suszko, J. W., & Abrams, R. A. (2007). New objects can capture attention without a unique luminance transient. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 14, 338-343.
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Veiel, L., Storandt, M., & Abrams, R. A. (2006) Visual search for change in older adults. Psychology and Aging, 21, 754-762.
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Christ, S. E.. & Abrams, R. A. (2006) Abrupt onsets cannot be ignored. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 13, 875-880.
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Abrams, R.A. & Christ, S. E. (2006). Motion onset captures attention: A rejoinder to Franconeri & Simons (2005). Perception & Psychophysics, 68, 114 - 117.
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