We’re excited to announce that VISxVISION will be hosting a satellite event at VSS 2024! Come visit us on Sunday, May 19th, at 7:30 PM in Banyan/Citrus.
Speakers:
Dr. Jessica Witt
Dr. Witt is the PI of the Witt Data Visualization Lab and is a Professor in Psychology at Colorado State University (CSU). Dr. Witt earned her PhD from the University of Virginia in 2007, and has been at CSU since 2012. She won the American Psychological Association’s (APAs’) Distinguished Scientific Award for Early Career Contribution to Psychology (2017), the Janet Taylor Spence Award for transformative early career contributions from APS (2015) and the Steve Yantis Early Career Award from the Psychonomic Society (2014). Her new line of research focuses on basic graph design and understanding uncertainty. The work on uncertainty is currently being applied to medical decisions and health disparities, as well as climate and weather predictions.
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Dr. Keisuke Fukuda
Dr. Fukuda’s research focuses on humans’ ability to select goal-related information from a plethora of irrelevant information (selective attention), represent and manipulate the selected information (working memory), and store and retrieve the information later in time (long-term memory). While humans are quite good at processing information in a goal-oriented manner, their ability (particularly his own!) is far from perfect. Dr. Fukuda’s research seeks to uncover the mechanisms of such imperfection by combining experimental psychophysics with electrophysiological recordings (e.g., scalp EEG, ERP), computational modeling, and individual differences approach. Dr. Fukuda is also interested in assisting and improving human information processing by translating the findings and techniques in cognitive psychology and neuroscience.
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