Psychology

By analyzing participants' eye movements to task-relevant display as they follow spoken instructions to manipulate one of the pictured objects on the display, research in Delphine Dahan's lab examines speech comprehension in real time.

With Ilana Ritov, Jon Baron found that outcomes that are absolutely prohibited (PVs) tend to show a greater discrepancy between acts and omissions that cause them (omission bias).

The laboratory of Alan Stocker studies the effects of sequential decision making in perception. For example, the selection of a target affects the subsequent percept of the target's orientation: the perceived angle relative to the distractor orientation is larger than it actually is.