Fougnie Lab
Welcome to the website of Daryl Fougnie's laboratory at New York University Abu Dhabi.
Despite our sophisticated brains with immense processing capacity there are strong capacity limits in what we can perceive, attend to, and remember about the world. Research in the Fougnie lab attempts to characterize and understand the nature of these limits. The current focus of the lab is on visual attention and visual working memory processes. Our work addresses questions that include:
- What is the underlying source of capacity limits?
- Do limitations in memory and attention arise from distinct or common sources?
- What is the nature of the representations that guide attention and memory?
The Fougnie lab approaches these questions primarily through a mixture of psychophysics and computational modeling.
Student research
The Fougnie Lab encourages undergraduates interested in gaining some research experience to contact Daryl at darylfougnie@nyu.edu to discuss how to get involved!
Open positions
The Fougnie lab is seeking a new postdoctoral associate with interests in studying visual cognition. For more info, see the Interfolio page here. Individuals interested in joining the Fougnie lab should contact darylfougnie@nyu.edu.
Lab News
• Syaheed Jabar, Kartik Sreenivasan, Stella Lentzou, Anish Kanabar, Tim Brady, and Daryl Fougnie have a paper titled "Probabilistic and rich individual working memories revealed by a betting game" in press at Scientific Reports.
• Edyta Sasin, Yuri Markov, and Daryl Fougnie have a paper titled "Meaningful objects avoid attribute amnesia due to incidental long-term memories" in press at Scientific Reports.
• Syaheed Jaber and Daryl Fougnie have a paper titled "Perception is rich and probabilistic" in press at Scientific Reports.
• Ying Zhou, Clay Curtis, Kartik Sreenivasan, and Daryl Fougnie have a paper titled "Common neural mechanisms control attention and working memory" in press at Journal of Neuroscience.
• Jenny Lin and Daryl Fougnie have a paper titled "No evidence that the retro-cue benefits requires reallocation of memory resources" in press at Cognition.
• Edyta Sasin, Florian Sense, Mark Nieuwenstein, and Daryl Fougnie have a paper titled "Training modulates memory-drive capture" in press at AP&P.
• Garry Kong and Daryl Fougnie have a paper titled "How selection in the mind is different from attention to the world" in press at JEP: General.
• Syaheed Jaber and Daryl Fougnie have a paper titled "How do expectations change behavior? Investigating the contributions at encoding vs. decision-making" in press at JEP:LMC.
• Jenny Lin, Garry Kong, and Daryl Fougnie have a paper titled "Object-based selection in visual working memory" in press at PB&R.
• Jenny Lin, Edyta Sasin, and Daryl Fougnie have a paper titled "Selection in working memory is resource-demanding: Concurrent task effects on the retro-cue effect" in press at AP&P.
• Edyta Sasin and Daryl Fougnie have a paper titled "The road to long-term memory: Top-down attention is more effective than bottom-up attention for forming long-term memories" in press at PB&R.
• Edyta Sasin and Daryl Fougnie have a paper titled "Memory-driven capture occurs for individual features of an object" in press in Scientific Reports.
• Garry Kong, Jessica Meehan, and Daryl Fougnie have a paper titled "Working memory is corrupted by strategic changes in search templates" in press at JOV.
• Daryl and colleagues have a new paper "Humans incorporate trial-to-trial working memory uncertainty into rewarded decisions" just published in PNAS.
• Daryl Fougnie was awarded another NYUAD Research Enhancement Fund.
• Garry Kong and Daryl Fougnie have a paper titled “Visual search within working memory” in press at JEPG.
• Daryl and colleagues have a new paper "Looking Inward and Back: Real-Time Monitoring of Visual Working Memories" just published in JEP:LMC.
• Daryl and colleagues have a new paper "Strategic trade-offs between quality and quantity in working memory" in press at JEP:HPP.
• Daryl Fougnie was awarded an NYUAD Research Enhancement Fund.