The Science behind Attention - Attending without seeing(when & when not)

Topic Of Discussion:

The topic that we will discuss is the Science behind attention using cognitive principles.

About the Speaker:

Seema Prasad has completed her Ph.D. in Cognitive Science from the Centre for Neural and Cognitive Sciences, University of Hyderabad. In her Ph.D. work, she was interested in how we attend to information that we are not consciously aware of. Her work investigated the nature of such unconscious attention and the extent to which it can be controlled through goal-driven factors. Apart from her Ph.D. work, she has worked on projects related to bilingualism and language-vision interaction which have also resulted in publications in peer-reviewed journals. She has received the prestigious Women in Cognitive Science award from the Psychonomics Society, USA. Her future research interests lean towards examining the extent to which lab-based findings in attention literature generalize to real-world settings.

Agenda:

Time: 7-8 PM IST
Duration: One hour

Section one: Introduction of the Speaker
Time: 7:00-7:05 PM

Section two: Speaker Presentation
Time : 7:05-7.40 PM

Section three: Open Discussion
Time : 7.40-8.00 PM