Richard Abrams

Richard Abrams is a Professor of Psychological & Brain Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis. His research focuses on perception, attention, and motor control, particularly investigating how mental mechanisms underlie eye and limb movements and visual attention. He holds a PhD and MA from the University of Michigan and a BS from Columbia University. His work explores perceptual objects in attention/action, visual stimuli effects, and distractor suppression.

Key research themes include attentional capture by motion onset and value-driven stimuli, the role of hand proximity in vision, and embodied cognition principles. His recent studies emphasize attentional suppression mechanisms and spatial task relevance modulation. Abrams’ lab website provides further details on ongoing projects and experimental paradigms.

His research has been featured in Ampersand for discoveries like visual distraction’s 'silver lining,' where distractor suppression enhances focus on competing stimuli. Grants and advising details are not explicitly detailed in the provided text.