Currently, I am a 5th year PhD student (M.A. May 2011) in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at the University of Rochester (Rochester, NY). I work with Dr. Duje Tadin in the Tadin Vision & Cognitive Neuroscience Lab, part of the Center for Visual Science.

Our experience of the world is the result of encoding by supposedly objective mechanisms - however, the properties of these mechanisms are subject to drastic change through experience. I am interested in how factors such as attention, context, multisensory integration, and perceptual learning can fundamentally alter the way that information is processed by the most basic units of the visual system. This work utilizes several experimental devices, including psychophysics, eye tracking, transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS), and transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS).