Curriculum Vitae
abarnas@ufl.edu
Dr. Barnas’s research is in the behavioral and neural basis of visual attention. Specifically, his research aims to understand the way in which information in the world is selected (via attention), how attention interacts with other cognitive processes, and how attention degrades in normal and clinical aging. His current work examines contributions of attention on spatial cognition/navigation as well as visual attention function as a novel marker of Alzheimer’s disease progression. His research uses a mixed-methods approach, consisting of behavioral methods, neuropsychological measures, and neuroimaging. He is interested in broadening his research program to examine socioemotional influences on visual attention and (failures of) attention during deception detection, as well as expanding his skillset to include eye-tracking and real-time fMRI.