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Attention is essential to everyday life. Without brain mechanisms to guide the selection of information, our sensory systems become rapidly overwhelmed. Dr. Jefferies's dissertation develops and tests a new way to measure how attention is guided across space and over time, during the perception of rapidly changing visual displays. This measure was shown to be effective for both younger and older healthy adults.

A randomly-selected Doctoral citation each day: today from the Doctor of Philosophy in Psychology (PhD) - graduated in 2009