The AMP Lab
The ability to act in a goal-directed fashion in spite of many competing forces is one of the hallmarks of adaptive human functioning. The AMP Lab examines how basic cognitive mechanisms enable and optimize this adaptive behavior by allowing us to perceive, select, maintain, and retrieve goal-relevant information. We use a variety of different methods, including behavioral, physiological, mathematical modeling, and neuroimaging approaches, to address these questions. We are also interested in examining these questions by considering both individual and group differences, especially between typical and atypical populations.
Join the AMP Lab
We encourage undergraduate and graduate students to join our team, especially persons of color and other underrepresented groups. Interested individuals should contact Professor Gibson via email: bgibson@nd.edu
Current and Recent Projects:
- Can voluntary control processes be elicited and detected in the lab? The case of attention. (In collaboration with Jamie Trost and Rebecca Warren).
- Can voluntary control processes be elicited and detected in the lab? The case of perception. (In collaboration with Rebecca Warren).
- Interoceptive sensitivity and the body senses: What causes the thermal grill illusion? (In collaboration with Jamie Trost and James Lynn).
- Space and time as contexts for episodic memory retrieval in ADHD. (In collaboration with Karl Healey, Dawn Gondoli, and Rebecca Warren).
- States of mind: Understanding the relation between thought progression and affect. (In collaboration with Danielle Sterling).
- The sense of agency guides choice in uncertain contexts. (In collaboration with Jamie Trost).
- Individual differences in attention control and working memory capacity. (In collaboration with Dan Schor and Alex Brodersen).
- Individual differences in arousal regulation and long-term memories abilities. (In collaboration with Matt Robison, Karl Healey, Dan Schor, and Jamie Trost).