Research Spotlights
Congratulations to the award winners of OPAM 2024!
Professional Development Award Winners
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Tal Boger
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Yong Hoon Chung
PhD Candidate - Dartmouth University
“Can you remember them better because they are familiar or because they look real?: Testing the contribution of “object-ness” in visual working memory using novel objects”
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Cailey Collins
Undergraduate - Memorial University of Newfoundland
“Salient Distraction Disrupts Non-Target Suppression During Category-Tuned Attentional Filtering: Behavioural Evidence for the Filter Disruption Theory”
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Moussa Kousa
PhD Candidate - Pennsylvania State University
“Evaluating Encoding and Retrieval Advantages of Action Pairs in a Newly Developed Stimulus Set”
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Sarah D. McCrackin
Post-Doc - McGill University
“Visual occlusion of faces alters typical neural face processing”
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Jenna Pablo
PhD Candidate - University of Nevada, Reno
“Examining the impact of pediatric concussion and impulsivity on adolescent executive functioning using the ABCD Study”
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Lukas VogelSang
Post-Doc - Massachusetts Institute of Technology
“Resilience of non-simultaneity detection to early-onset, prolonged visual deprivation”
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Nora Will
Best Talk & Best Poster Awardee
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Tal Boger
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Emma Siritzky
CO-BEST TALK WINNER
PhD Candidate - George Washington University
“Incidental learning of task-relevant and task-irrelevant information in visual search reveals nuanced effects of decay and associative processing.”
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Ritik Raina
CO-BEST POSTER WINNER
PhD Candidate - Stony Brook University
“Generating objects in peripheral vision using attention-guided diffusion models”
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Alenka Doyle
CO-BEST POSTER WINNER
Undergraduate - Trinity College
“Information-driven attentional capture”