Lab Members
Current Members
Melissa R. Beck, Ph.D.
Melissa received her bachelor's degree in Psychology from Ohio University, and her doctoral degree in Experimental Psychology from Kent State University. While at Kent State University she worked with Daniel T. Levin examining visual metacogntion and visual attention and representations. She then completed a postdoctoral research fellowship at the Human Factors and Applied Cognition Lab in the Department of Psychology at George Mason University working with Matthew Peterson. This collaboration broadened Melissa's interest to examining the roles of attention and memory in visual search. Melissa then became a National Research Council Research Associate at the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington DC and collaborated with Greg Trafton. Here she more finely developed the applied goals of her research. Currently, Melissa is a Professor at Louisiana State University.
Raevan Hanan, B.S.
Raevan received her B.S. in Psychology from Oklahoma State University. Her research interests encompass visual attention, memory, and search. She is further interested in the impacts of ingroup and outgroup biases, expertise, cognitive load, and effort on visual search, memory, and attention capabilities.
Tom Tomshe, M.A.
Tom received his degree in Psychology from Louisiana Tech University in Ruston, Louisiana. He then received his masters degree in Psychology from Louisiana State University. Tom explores how memory for visual spaces drives attention and how it might influence the design of physical, digital, and virtual environments. His approach to research involves neuroimaging, eye-tracking, and modelling to uncover the underlying mechanisms of memory and attention.
Alumni
Amanda E. van Lamsweerde, Ph.D.
Amanda received her PhD in 2013 and is currently a Sr. Research Psychologist at StraCon Services Group, LLC.
Justin M. Ericson, Ph.D.
Justin received his PhD in 2014 and is currently a design Researcher II at Microsoft.
Rebecca Goldstein, Ph.D
Rebecca received her PhD in 2016 and is an Assistant Professor at Arkansas Tech University.
Katherine Moen, Ph.D
Katherine received her PhD in 2019 and is currently an Assistant Professor at University of Nebraska Kearney.
Sunghyun Kim, Ph.D
Sunghyun received his PhD in 2020 and is currently a postdoc at the Asan Medical Center in Soul, South Korea.
Gaojie Fan, Ph.D
Gaojie is currently a User Experience Researcher at Boster Biotechnology.
Stephanie Saltzmann, Ph.D
Stephanie received her PhD in 2023.
Brandon Eich, Ph.D 
Brandon received his PhD in 2024. Brandon is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Arizona.
Hanane Ramzaoui, Ph.D
Hanane is currently a postdoctoral research associate at The University of Texas
at Arlington.