Michigan State University Department of Psychology

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Mark Becker
Assistant Professor

Ph.D. Experimental Psychology, University of California, San Diego 2000

Masters Experimental Psychology, University of California, San Diego 1995

Bachelors Union College, Schenectady, NY

Primary Program: Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience

285B Psychology

(517) 432-3367

becker54@msu.edu

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Perception & Attention Lab	My lab investigates how attention alters the way visual information is represented. Some of our research suggests that conscious awareness of visual scenes is very limited, containing only the 3 to 5 items which are the current focus of attention. Further, once attention leaves an object it is no longer consciously represented. This close link between attention and conscious experience highlights the importance of allocating attentional resources efficiently to the “appropriate” parts of a visual scene.

Perception & Attention Lab

My lab investigates how attention alters the way visual information is represented. Some of our research suggests that conscious awareness of visual scenes is very limited, containing only the 3 to 5 items which are the current focus of attention. Further, once attention leaves an object it is no longer consciously represented. This close link between attention and conscious experience highlights the importance of allocating attentional resources efficiently to the “appropriate” parts of a visual scene.

Research Publications

	Title
2008	Becker, M.W., & Rasmussen, I.P. (2008). The Guidance of Attention to Objects and Locations by Long Term Memory of Natural Scenes. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 34(6), 1325-1338.

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