Sarah Brand

Profile

I studied Psychology (BSc) at the University of Wales, Bangor where the many top researchers in cognitive psychology and cognitive neuroscience developed my interest in attention.

I am currently a PhD student supervised by Nilli Lavie in the Psychology Department of University College London.

Research

I am interested in the role played by executive functions in controlling selective attention. My research focuses on the effects of switching between tasks on people’s ability to ignore irrelevant distractors in each of the tasks. I study for example the effects of task switching on distractor effects in flanker tasks or on capture of attention by an irrelevant “singleton” during visual search tasks.