I just received notification from the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program that I have been accorded an Honorable Mention! I do actually feel honored by this honorable mention, although clearly the fellowship itself was the original aim of my application.
To those of you who are not aware, the NSF GRFP is one of […]
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So this gives Cognitive Lens three primary audiences: engineers, designers, and psychologists (particularly of the cognitive persuasion). A group I also hope to connect with more generally are those undertaking research degrees of all sorts - including undergraduates considering grad school, Masters students working their way through deeper coursework, and Doctorate students engaging in research at the deepest levels.
If there is one take-home lesson from perception research, it is that humans wildly distort and simplify sensory input when attending to the world around them. In the past few years, research into change blindness has shown some stunning failures of our ability to identify changes in our surroundings - the principle of perceptual constancy, […]
Reading today’s New York Times report about the increasing selectivity of America’s top colleges and universities, I was struck by the fact that not only was the author a Harvard alumnus, but so were the authors of the three books used as references in the article. It was a perspective from the selective group critiquing […]