Alexandra List

Dr. Alexandra List is Associate Professor of Psychology and member of the Neuroscience Program at Hamilton College, where she has taught since 2013. Her research integrates cognitive neuroscience and psychology to explore how humans perceive and attend to visual, auditory, and haptic information.

Education:

• Ph.D. in Psychology (Cognition, Brain and Behavior), University of California, Berkeley
• B.A. in Cognitive Science, University of California, Berkeley

Research Focus:
Dr. List investigates how perception and attention are shaped by prior experiences, concurrent inputs, and expectations across sensory modalities. She employs EEG, psychophysics, eye-tracking, and stereoscopic displays to study multisensory interactions, perceptual stability, and attentional control.

Representative Publications:
Her work has appeared in leading journals such as Brain, Cognition, Journal of Vision, Neuropsychologia, and PLOS ONE. Recent studies use pattern classification of EEG signals to decode perceptual and attentional states and explore cross-modal guidance of attention.

Awards & Honors:

• Hamilton College Class of 1966 Career Development Award (2014)
• NIH Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Awards – Pre-doctoral (2004–2006) & Post-doctoral (2007–2010)
• Brain Travel Fellowships (2008, 2009)
• Veterans Affairs Special Contribution Award (2006)
• NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Honorable Mention (2001)

Advising & Mentorship:
Dr. List supervises senior projects (PSYC/NEURO 500/501) and offers research opportunities during the academic year (PSYC/NEURO 198 & 298) and summer (Hamilton Summer Science Research). She has mentored over twenty students on topics ranging from EEG correlates of creativity to multisensory spatial learning.

Professional Affiliations:
Cognitive Neuroscience Society, Society for Neuroscience, Vision Sciences Society, Psychonomic Society, Sigma Xi, AAUW, Faculty for Undergraduate Neuroscience.