Janice J. Snyder
E-mail: janice.snyder@ubc.ca
Research
Although our visual system is constantly bombarded by complex visual information, we manage to produce coherent goal-directed behaviour with relatively little effort. In part, this efficiency is accomplished is by reducing irrelevant information through the process of selective attention. My program of research is aimed at investigating mechanisms of attention as they relate to the production of efficient behaviour. One area of research investigates how a built-in search function helps us search our environment efficiently by unconsciously tagging searched locations or objects to prevent our attention from returning there. With Alan Kingstone I study the operatational aspects of this phenomenon. With Anjan Chatterjee, I study what areas of the brain underlie this search process. With Walter F. Bischof, I study what visual information is used to navigate through the environment. And with Barbara Rutherford I study how the development of attention is related to successful reading acquisition.
Education
Ph.D. University of Alberta, 2000 (Psychology),
B.Sc. University of Alberta, 1996 (Specialization in Psychology)
H.B,Sc, Lakehead University , 1977 (Medical Laboratory Sciences)
Publications
Snyder, J. J., & Chatterjee, A. (2004). Spatial-temporal anisometries following right parietal damage. Neuropsychologia, 42, 1703-1708.
Snyder, J. J., Schmidt, W. C.,&Kingstone, A. (2001). Attentional momentum does not underlie the inhibition of return effect. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 27, 1420-1432.
Snyder, J. J., & Kingstone, A. (2001). Multiple location inhibition of return: When you see it and when you don't. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 54A, 1221-1237.
Snyder, J. J., & Kingstone, A. (2000). Inhibition of Return and Visual Search: How many separate loci are inhibited? Perception and Psychophysics, 3, 452-458.
Danziger, S., Kingstone, A., & Snyder, J. J. (1998). Inhibition of return to successively stimulated locations in a sequential visual search paradigm. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 24, 1467-1475.
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3/30/2010 5:22:00 PM
