Category: Lab Updates

Research conducted in the BAP Lab has been published in the journal Cognitive Processing! Previous research suggests that eyes and arrows direct attention in qualitatively different ways. Specifically, eyes direct attention to specific locations while arrows direct attention to specific objects. In this paper, we report the results of two studies that extend this work.…

The BAP Lab has received funding to support the work of three Bard undergraduates during Summer 2025. This funding comes from the Bard Summer Research Institute (BSRI) which will run for eight weeks starting June. This funding will allow current psychology majors Prisha Bishen, Maya Gjonbalaj, and Kateryna Panihinka, to continue their work as research…

On Saturday, March 8th, members of the BAP Lab traveled to New York City to present two posters at the Eastern Psychological Association (EPA) Annual Meeting. One poster, led by RA Polina Rafailova found that robot eye gaze directs attention in a location-based manner (see pdf of poster here). A second poster, led by RA…

Members of the BAP Lab were on hand to present their work at the Bard Summer Research Institute (BSRI) poster session on October 25th at Bard’s Annandale-On-Hudson campus. Their poster reported the results of a series of experiments that tested whether eye-gaze directs attention in a location or object based manner. For more information see:…

Clara Retzloff, ’25 will be serving as an animal care intern in the bird department at the Southwick Zoo in Mendon, Massachusetts. Clara will participate in daily care and enrichment programs for the Zoo’s avian residents and support educational outreach. Alua Samat, ’25 will participate in the NYU Applied Psychology Q.U.E.S.T summer program, which seeks…

Research conducted in the BAP Lab has been published in The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology! Previous research has shown that people tend to start tasks as soon as possible, even when this comes at the cost of additional effort. This tendency to pre-crastinate has been found across a number of tasks. This paper reports…

The BAP Lab has received funding to support the work of four Bard students during Summer 2024. This funding comes from the Bard Summer Research Institute (BSRI) which will run for eight weeks starting June 2024. This funding will allow current psychology majors Justyne Ingwu, Aida Malikova, Polina Rafailova, and Becca Wintjen, to continue their…

Research conducted in the BAP Lab has been published in Visual Cognition!  Previous research has shown that characteristics of a face (including age, race, and emotional expression) can modulate the extent to which participants follow the eye gaze of the face. We report the results of a series of experiments that test whether the attractiveness…