Viola S. Stoermer

Viola S. Stoermer is Assistant Professor in Psychological and Brain Sciences at Dartmouth College, directing the BrainStörmer Lab. Her research examines cognitive and neural mechanisms of perception, attention, and memory using EEG and behavioral methods.

Research investigates fundamental limits of selective attention and working memory capacity. Key findings demonstrate how meaningful objects expand memory capacity and how attention warps feature perception. Studies reveal cross-modal interactions where sounds influence visual processing and resolve ambiguities.

Publications establish representational frameworks for attention, showing how feature-based selection operates globally. Research combines psychophysics with neural measures to characterize perceptual bottlenecks and capacity limits.

Current Research Areas:

• Principles of selective attention in feature/space
• Meaningfulness effects on working memory capacity
• Auditory influences on visual perception