Andrew Lynn
University of Louisville, KY·Psychology
Paying attention to something can make us see it better: sharper and with more sensitivity to faint contrast. In adults this effect is well documented.
- Fields
Psychology
Neuroscience
- Topics
visual attention
visual perception
child development
- Grants
- 1 known grant, through May 2029
What they work on
- Track within-child development of contrast sensitivity and visual acuity in 6–12-year-olds for a central sinusoidal grating across detection and recognition tasks, using eye tracking and adaptive psychometric methods.
- Measure how valid, neutral and invalid attention cues improve or worsen children's contrast sensitivity and acuity, charting developmental trajectories of attentional enhancement.
- Test with advanced longitudinal modeling whether improvements in attentional enhancement predict later refinement of visual perception across childhood.
More about the research
But it is unclear when it emerges in childhood, or whether better attention helps tune vision as children grow. These questions matter for cerebral visual impairment (CVI), a brain-based vision disorder. CVI is a leading cause of low vision in US children and involves problems with visual attention.
Why it matters
Mapping how attention and vision develop together in typical children provides a baseline for understanding what goes wrong in cerebral visual impairment. Findings could inform behavioral interventions to improve visual attention in children with CVI, pediatric brain injury or neurodevelopmental disorders.
Known grants
From NIH and NSF research grants. Labs often have other funding we can't see.
Closest labs
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Margaret Reynolds
Washington University in St Louis, MO·Medicine & Clinical Research·Early-career
Measure gains in visual acuity, using Teller acuity testing, in children with autism spectrum disorder after refractive surgery for refractive error that glasses cannot address.
Sampath Jayarathna
Old Dominion University, VA·Computer Science·Early-career
Build a "streaming hub," a framework for real-time, computationally efficient processing of eye-tracking data from one or more users, in place of offline batch analysis.
The school
University of Louisville: 15 labs on PI Pages, $225M a year on research, 159 research doctorates a year.
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