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Anna Shafer-Skelton

Psychology

My work in graduate school has centered on understanding the limits of our visual processing and how they shape our experience. My first aim at UCSD was to take what the field knows about memory for simple visual stimuli (colored dots) and extend that knowledge to understand how we experience larger 3-dimensional spaces. Finding that existing paradigms were less suitable for studying our processing of these richer visual experiences, I've since shifted to testing what types of information are able to predict brain activity in fMRI participants—a more flexible approach that allows me to quantify different types of information present in our visual system. After graduating, I'll complete my postdoc at UPenn, studying how our visual attention and memory capacity shape our navigation through the world. In addition to the Katzin Prize, I'm a recipient of an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, an APA Dissertation Fellowship, the FoVea and OPAM travel awards, and the Psychology Department Norman Henry Anderson Prize.