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Experience feels rich, seamless, and worth remembering. It is none of those things when it arrives. The eyes sample the world in narrow, interrupted snatches; almost all of it is discarded within seconds; what survives is a handful of moments we can tell a story about.
I am broadly interested in how we represent, remember and organize continuous experiences. In my research I tackle these questions using eye tracking, fMRI, computational modeling, and behavioral tools.
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Perceptual and attentional bottlenecks, and how the mind bridges the gaps they leave.
Multiple object tracking · the perception of now · the passage of time · film disruptions · change blindness · semantics from gaze
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How is information remembered?
Key moments — the pivotal slices of experience that anchor comprehension and memory.
The storyboard paradigm · neural synchrony and reinstatement · key moments vs. event boundaries · aging
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The structures that organize narrative, borrowed from psycholinguistics and NLP.
A grammar for wordless comics · what makes a moment key