Polly Dalton

Profile

Current positions

ESRC Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford 

Junior Research Fellow at St Anne’s College, Oxford

Qualifications

PhD in Psychology, University College London (2004)

BA (Hons) in Experimental Psychology, University College, Oxford (1999)

Research Interests

Our brains are continuously bombarded with enormous amounts of information from each of the senses. I am interested in the way that the brain acts on this potentially overwhelming input to construct a coherent picture of the world. My research focuses on selective attention – the means by which relevant stimuli are processed more thoroughly by the brain than less relevant stimuli. In particular, I am interested in comparing the ways in which attentional processing proceeds both within and between each of the different sensory modalities. Within this broad area, my research includes studies of: the relationship between voluntary and involuntary control of attention; the effects of perceptual load on selective attention; and the development of attentional processes.