I am currently studying the allocation of attention to superimposed or partially overlapping
objects. We have been focused on an in-depth investigation of a not widely studied
phenomenon we've termed occluder inhibition. We find, like a couple of other studies, that
when a participant attends to an occluded target object, there is an attenuation of attention
at the overlapping region. However, occluder inhibition is specific to experimental conditions
that have not previously been defined. I have investigated a series of factors to help
understand the mechanisms governing this effect.
A portion of this data has been presented in a talk at The Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic
Society in 2005 and has been presented in a talk at the Object Perception, Attention,and Memory meeting in November of 2007.