Assistant Professor of Psychology, Director of the Bard Attention and Performance (BAP!) Lab

Tom’s research interests include understanding how our ability to attend to information is impacted by experience and the ways in which we outsource attentional processing to the environment.  Tom has published articles in the Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, Psychology and Aging, The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, and Teaching of Psychology.  At Bard, Tom is a member of the Experimental Humanities Attention cluster and teaches PSY 238: Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), a course cross-listed in Psychology, Computer Science, and EH.  Tom earned a M.S. and Ph.D. in Cognition and Brain Science from Georgia Tech and a B.A. in Psychology from Bates College.