Nicholas Gaspelin is an associate professor in the Department of Psychological Sciences at the University of Missouri. He received his B.A. in 2008 from the University of Iowa and his Ph.D. in 2014 from the University of New Mexico. He completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Center for Mind and Brain of the University of California, Davis. His research focuses on the cognitive and neural underpinnings of attention using converging evidence from psychophysics, eye tracking, and event-related potentials (ERPs). Much of his research has specifically investigated how we learn to prevent distraction by perceptually salient stimuli. In 2021, he won an NSF Career Award. He was a consulting editor at Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance (2018–2024) and Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics (2019–2024). He is currently an associate editor at Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition (2025–present). He also leads an annual NSF-funded workshop aimed at teaching computer programming to junior researchers for use in cognitive psychology.

Website: https://psychology.missouri.edu/people/gaspelin

Contact Information: 
Nicholas Gaspelin
Associate Professor
Department of Psychological Sciences
University of Missouri
320 S. 6th St.
Columbia, MO 65211 USA

Email: ngaspelin@missouri.edu