Kyle Cave

My main research interests cover the various aspects of visual cognition, including visual attention, visual imagery, and object recognition. Many of my experiments are devoted to measuring how visual attention is allocated during complex visual tasks such as visual search. I study both covert attention and eye movements, and many of my experiments include eye tracking. Most recently, I have focused on the mental representations that guide attention during difficult searches, and have used eye-tracking data to determine what information is included in those representations. I have also recently explored the interactions between targets and distractors in complex displays. The results of these experiments have implications for theories based on perceptual load, dilution, and attentional zoom.

For more information on my research, see the Visual Cognition and Attention Lab.