Queen's Visual Cognition Laboratory

02/03/2022

Congratulations to Karolina Krzys for being awarded a Meta (Facebook) PhD Research Fellowship for her work in AR/VR Perception, Cognition and Action!

The Meta PhD Research Fellowship Program awards PhD candidates conducting cutting-edge research in emerging topics across computer science and engineering, including AI system hardware/software co-design, blockchain and cryptoeconomics, human-computer interaction, programming languages, and AR/VR future technologies.

Karolina is currently taking advantage of Virtual Reality technology to explore cognitive processing across various tasks including visual perception, attention, navigation, and memory.

Her current research seeks to identify mechanisms underlying attentional prioritization of space near the body, such as implication of the visuomotor system or susceptibility to modulation by other cognitive processes.

She hopes to leverage latest advancements in display technology to broaden our understanding of how attention is deployed across depth of 3D space.

The QVCL is so proud of Karolina’s achievement and we look forward to seeing her continue to succeed!

09/16/2021

INTERESTED IN GAINING SOME RESEARCH EXPERIENCE?

The Queen's Visual Cognition Lab (QVCL) is currently looking for Volunteer Research Assistants who are enthusiastic about Cognitive Psychology and want to learn more about Vision Research!

This is a perfect position for a 2nd or 3rd year student interested in learning more about this field or looking to gain some research experience. We have some great people working in our lab this year, and hopefully you're interested in contributing to our field of work. The time commitment is about 10hrs/week and hours are flexible.

If you are interested, please fill out the Google Docs form below.

If you have any issues, please contact our lab coordinator, Hannah at for assistance.

If you would like more information about our research, feel free to browse our website at https://qvcl.ca/.

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02/10/2021

We are still recruiting participants for an on-line study on visual perception for the chance to win a $25 gift card!

This experiment requires viewing scene images on a computer screen and responding with your mouse/keyboard. It takes approximately 60 minutes or less to complete.

If you would like to participate in this study, please email [email protected].

02/04/2021

We are recruiting participants for an on-line study on visual perception for the chance to win a $25 gift card!

This experiment requires viewing scene images on a computer screen and responding with your mouse/keyboard. It takes approximately 60 minutes or less to complete.

If you would like to participate in this study, please email [email protected].

05/15/2020

Psychonomic Society just put out a great blog post featuring recent attentional research coming out of our lab! Thanks for the shoutout

Imagine that you’re in the center of a busy city watching a pedestrian traffic signal for your cue to walk. The green walking man gives the go-ahead and you start walking, a police car siren sounds…

03/07/2019

The Queen's Visual Cognition Lab is recruiting participants for studies Pocky and Orange, two 30-45 minute studies where your eye movements will be tracked and analyzed in a visual search task. The studies can be run together or separately. All studies through our lab are compensated at a rate of $15/hour or provide course credit, and even better -- you'll contribute to the research on how and why we see the way we do!

Interested in participating? Reach out to [email protected] with subject "POCKY"/"ORANGE" for more information.

01/08/2019

Happy New Year from QVCL!

In 2019 you can get involved with our projects as a Research Assistant, volunteer as a participant in our new studies, or just catch up with our new publications.

Interested? Reach out to [email protected] to apply as an RA, or head over to qvcl.ca/get-involved to volunteer as a participant!

10/22/2018

The Queen's Visual Cognition Lab is recruiting paid participants for a short study where your eye movements will be tracked and analyzed in a visual search. All studies through our lab are compensated at $15 per hour / provide course credit, and even better -- you'll add to the research on how and why we see the way we do!

If you're interested in participating, reach out to [email protected] for more information.

10/15/2018

Congratulations, Louisa!

QVCL is extending a warm congratulations to Louisa Man who successfully defended her Masters thesis this week. Louisa has been an incredible addition to the QVCL team, bringing a clinical framework to our cognitive lab for just over two years. In her time here, Louisa has overseen dozens of projects

09/21/2018

Congratulations, Ellen!

Congratulations, Ellen, on your successful defence and your acceptance to a PhD at Idaho University!

09/11/2018

We're looking for volunteer research assistants to join our lab for the 2018-2019 academic year! Interested? Reach out to [email protected] for more information.

Read about our accomplishments this summer, and what we're looking forward to in our new blog post:

Looking Toward Another Academic Year

QVCL would like to extend a thank you to all researchers, participants, and supporters of our research throughout the summer of 2018. This summer, we ran six studies, saw over 150 participants come through the lab, and all with a team of three research assistants, a lab coordinator and lab program

09/11/2018

Recent Research: The influence of scene context on parafoveal processing of objects

In a recent article published by the QVCL team (Dr. Monica Castelhano and Effie Pereira), a study revealed that preview information and scene context both independently add to one's parafoveal processing of objects, regardless of object-scene congruency interactions. Read more about the exciting re