Department of Psychology
![karen-arnell-attention-lab-brock-university Karen Arnell, Attention Lab, Brock University](https://brocku.ca/attention-lab/wp-content/uploads/sites/163/karen-arnell-attention-lab-brock-university.gif?x73790)
Lab Director
Karen Arnell
Brock Faculty profile: click here
Email: karnell@brocku.ca
Karen Arnell (PhD, University of Waterloo) is a Professor in the Department of Psychology at Brock University and the Director of the Attention Lab.
Her research interests include dual-tasking, attention capture, emotion and attention, individual differences in attention, and electrophysiology of attention.
PhD Students
![gillian-dale-attention-lab-brock-university Gillian Dale, Attention Lab, Brock University](https://brocku.ca/attention-lab/wp-content/uploads/sites/163/gillian-dale-attention-lab-brock-university.jpg?x73790)
Gillian Dale
gd03fh@brocku.ca
Gillian Dale is just completing her PhD studies on individual differences in breadth of attention and its relationship to dual-task costs in the attentional blink paradigm.
![kirk-stokes-attention-lab-brock-university Kirk Stokes, Attention Lab, Brock University](https://brocku.ca/attention-lab/wp-content/uploads/sites/163/kirk-stokes-attention-lab-brock-university.jpg?x73790)
Kirk Stokes
ks03xo@brocku.ca
Kirk Stokes is a PhD student examining individual differences in attention capture and distraction.
Research Assistants
![Attention Lab, Psychology Department Brock University](https://brocku.ca/attention-lab/wp-content/uploads/sites/163/psychology-attention-lab-brock-university-400x260.jpg?x73790)
Baris Bagcilar
Baris Bagcilar has recently graduated with his honours Psychology undergraduate degree from Brock and was an honours thesis student and RA in the lab last year. Baris has also performed studies on the attentional awakening effect.
![Attention Lab, Psychology Department Brock University](https://brocku.ca/attention-lab/wp-content/uploads/sites/163/psychology-attention-lab-brock-university-400x260.jpg?x73790)
Dan Schutten
Dan Schutten is a 3rd year undergraduate Psychology student at Brock. Dan is a new RA in the Attention Lab. Welcome Dan.
![Attention Lab, Psychology Department Brock University](https://brocku.ca/attention-lab/wp-content/uploads/sites/163/psychology-attention-lab-brock-university-400x260.jpg?x73790)
Jessie Shannon
Jessie Shannon is a 4th year undergraduate Psychology major at Brock who is in the lab for her second year. Jessie works on studies that include EEG/ERPs.
Recent Alumni
![mary-maclean-attention-lab-brock-university Mary MacLean, Attention Lab, Brock University](https://brocku.ca/attention-lab/wp-content/uploads/sites/163/mary-maclean-attention-lab-brock-university.jpg?x73790)
Mary MacLean
Mary MacLean is a former PhD student from the lab who defended her dissertation this past summer. Mary is now living in sunny California in a post-doctoral position in Dr. Barry Giesbrecht’s lab at UC Santa Barbara.
![blaire-dube-attention-lab-brock-university Blaire Dube, Attention Lab, Brock University](https://brocku.ca/attention-lab/wp-content/uploads/sites/163/blaire-dube-attention-lab-brock-university.jpg?x73790)
Blaire Dube
Blaire Dube is a former RA from the lab who is now a psychology graduate student at the University of Guelph.
![tabitha-methot-attention-lab-brock-university Tabitha Methot, Attention Lab, Brock University](https://brocku.ca/attention-lab/wp-content/uploads/sites/163/tabitha-methot-attention-lab-brock-university.jpg?x73790)
Tabitha Methot
Tabitha Methot is a former RA from the lab who is now an MA student studying forensic psychology at Brock.
![no-image-attention-lab-brock-university Attention Lab, Brock University](https://brocku.ca/attention-lab/wp-content/uploads/sites/163/no-image-attention-lab-brock-university.png?x73790)
Jen Adoranti
Jen Adoranti is a former RA from the lab who is now an MBA student at Brock.
Collaborators
Michael Busseri, Brock University
Kimberly Cote, Brock University
Paul Dux, University of Queensland
Pierre Jolicoeur, University of Montreal
Mary MacLean, UC Santa Barbara
Jeff MacLeod, Dalhousie University
Jane Raymond, University of Birmingham
Kimron Shapiro, University of Birmingham