Sarah Shomstein is the Thelma Hunt Professor and Chair of Psychological and Brain Sciences at the George Washington University. She received a BS in Psychology in 1998 from Carnegie Mellon University and her PhD in Psychological and Brain Sciences in 2003 from the Johns Hopkins University. After returning to Carnegie Mellon for a post-doctoral fellowship, she joined GWU’s faculty in 2007. Her research focuses on elucidating the mechanisms of attentional selection. Namely, examining factors that influence attentional selection with the focus of being able to predict what aspects of the perceptual environment are more efficiently represented in the human brain and subsequently impact behavior.  Dr. Shomstein is committed to engaging students in STEM fields, which she accomplishes through events coordinated by the USA Science and Engineering Festival. Sarah is a Fellow of the Psychonomic Society and is the current Editor-in-Chief of Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics and has served as Associate Editor for Psychonomic Bulletin and Review and Visual Cognition.

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Sarah Shomstein
Professor, Cognitive Neuroscience
The George Washington University
2125 G St NW, Room 309
Washington, DC 20052 USA

Phone: 202-994-5957
Email: shom@gwu.edu
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