My name is Justin Frandsen. I am currently a graduate researcher in the Learning and Attention Lab at Texas A&M University, where I study how experience shapes attentional guidance.
My work focuses on how humans learn to efficiently attend to information in complex environments. For example, when searching a kitchen for a tea kettle, you’re likely to check the stovetop first because, through past experience, you have learned where it is most likely to be. These expectations form what we call scene grammar — the set of rules and regularities that guide attention within real-world scenes.
I look to study how this guidance (semantic and statistical) is learned and utilized by our attentional system. For a list of
