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, B.A.
Tom received his degree in Psychology from Louisiana Tech University in Ruston, Louisiana, where he first gained interest in visual cognition after taking a physiological psychology class, followed by an environmental psychology course. 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.
Hanane Ramzaoui, Ph.D
hramzaoui@lsu.edu
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Hanane specializes in cognitive psychology, with a focus on visual attention and memory. Her research focuses on the influence of bottom-up and top-down guidance on visual search within realistic scenes in non-pathological aging and Alzheimer’s disease. Hanane also studies the influence of perceptual and semantic grouping on visual working memory capacity. To conduct this research, she has mainly used behavioral and eye-tracking measurements. She is currently conducting her first Event Related Potentials (ERP) study, in collaboration with Dr. Melissa Beck, focusing on how feature repetition might bias visual working memory processes. Hanane obtained her PhD in psychology in France at Université Côte d’Azur (LAPCOS laboratory) in December 2019, worked as a postdoctoral fellow at Université Côte d’Azur (BCL laboratory) and worked as a visiting associate professor at Université de Paris (Vision Action Cognition laboratory). She was also a visiting associate professor at Université Côte d’Azur during her dissertation.
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.