I'm a cognitive scientist who studies human perceptual cognition: how people reason about and gain knowledge of the perceptual world. In doing so, I use a range of tools from psychology and neuroscience, including human behavioral methods, eye-tracking,...
Postdoctoral Fellowship, Psychological and Brain Sciences, Dartmouth College
Ph.D., Psychology, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities
B.A., Psychology and Philosophy, Wheaton College
PSYC 101: General Psychology
PSYC 202: Statistics for Psychology
PSYC 310: Cognitive Psychology
PSYC 434: Cognitive Neuroscience
I'm a cognitive scientist who studies human perceptual cognition: how people reason about and gain knowledge of the perceptual world. In doing so, I use a range of tools from psychology and neuroscience, including human behavioral methods, eye-tracking, and EEG. Most of my research aims to understand how people focus on certain information and ignore other information to achieve their goals, a process called selective attention. Recent projects of mine include studies of how people can implicitly bias their attention to task-relevant information, the most effective ways for people to ignore visual distractions, and how visual impairments like macular degeneration influence everyday tasks like visual search.
Addleman, D. A., Rajasingh, R., & Störmer, V. S. (2024). Attention to object categories: Selection history determines the breadth of attentional tuning during real-world object search. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. https://doi.org/10.1037/xge0001575. Open Materials.
Wöstmann, M., Störmer, V.S., Obleser, J., Addleman, D. A., Andersen, S., Gaspelin, N., Geng, J., Luck, S., Noonan, M., Slagter, H., & Theeuwes, J. (2022). 10 simple rules to study distractor suppression. Progress in Neurobiology. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pneurobio.2022.102269
Addleman, D. A., & Störmer, V. S. (2022). No evidence for proactive suppression of explicitly cued distractor features. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-022-02071-7. Open Materials.
Addleman, D. A., Legge, G. L., & Jiang, Y. V. (2021). Simulated central vision loss impairs implicit location probability learning. Cortex. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2021.02.009. Open Materials.
Addleman, D. A., & Jiang, Y. V. (2019). Experience-driven auditory attention. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2019.08.002
Addleman, D. A., Tao, J., Remington, R. W., & Jiang, Y. V. (2018). Explicit goal-driven attention, unlike implicitly learned attention, spreads to secondary tasks. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/xhp0000457
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