Position Title
Department of Psychology
Department of Neurology
neural mechanisms of attention
Position Title
Department of Psychology
Department of Neurology
neural mechanisms of attention
Center for Mind and Brain
Bio
Ron Mangun is a distinguished professor of psychology and neurology and the founding director of the Center for Mind & Brain. His laboratory uses a cognitive neuroscience approach to investigate the cognitive and neural mechanisms of voluntary and reflexive attention in humans. His research on the cognitive neuroscience of attention investigates how we perceive, attend, ignore and become aware of events in our environment. Ron Mangun's work investigates how we perceive, attend, ignore, and become aware of events in our environment.