People profiles

Brandon is in his last year of graduate studies and has conducted research in the areas of vigilance, mind wandering, learning in the classroom, and media multitasking.

Bruno Korst is interested in understanding how high-performing practitioners learn, apply and adapt their practical skills in their practice, and how professional training programmes can be improved to motivate high-performance. Bruno holds a professional designation and a graduate degree in engineering, and has been responsible for the design and delivery of practical training in Electrical Engineering for the last 17 years. He has received a few awards in leadership and innovation in laboratory instruction.

Kristin is a post doctoral fellow in the Vision and Attention Lab and Dr. Evan Risko’s Cognition and Natural Behaviour Lab. Broadly speaking Kristin is interested in how attention, motivation and metacognition operate in various learning environments. She is presently exploring how different modes of presenting lecture material online (e.g., video, audio, text, lecture speed, etc.,) impact attention, mind wandering, metacognition, and learning outcomes in online learners.

Dr. Carriere completed his PhD at the University of Waterloo, and then after a brief stint at Research in Motion, came back to complete a postdoctoral fellowship.  Dr. Carriere is now a Assistant Professor at Bishop's University.  He has conducted research on a variety of topics including synesthesia, mind-wandering and attentional errors. 

Email Jon: jon@theoptia.com

Grayden Solman received his PhD in June 2012 and then completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of British Columbia under the supervision of Dr. Alan Kingstone. Grayden is now an Assistant Professor of Psychology at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. Grayden's work focuses on understanding visual exploration as it occurs under naturalistic conditions. For an informative video view Grayden's talk from a 2012 interview on the Daily Planet.