Darcy Burgund

Darcy Burgund serves as Professor of Psychology and Director of the Neuroscience Program at Macalester College. Based in Olin-Rice Science Center Room 330, she leads cognitive neuroscience research and teaches courses in neuroimaging techniques, cognitive neuroscience, and research methods. Her contact email is dburgund@macalester.edu.

Her academic background includes:

• BA from Skidmore College
• PhD from University of Minnesota

Research Interests:
Dr. Burgund specializes in high-level visual cognition and memory with emphasis on object recognition. Her work investigates hemisphere asymmetries through divided-visual-field paradigms and identifies neural correlates using fMRI. Key focus areas include:

• Face perception and emotional processing
• Racial bias in visual cognition
• Neural adaptation mechanisms
• Task-dependent cognitive processing

Publication Trends:
Her 2020-2025 publications demonstrate consistent focus on visual cognition using multimodal approaches. Recent work examines race-based perceptual differences through eye-tracking, hemisphere asymmetries in emotional processing, and gender identity effects on visual tasks. Methodologically, she bridges behavioral paradigms with neuroimaging to explore how visual information is processed across diverse contexts.

Advising:
Professor Burgund actively mentors students, with numerous co-authored publications featuring undergraduate researchers. Her advisees contribute significantly to projects on facial expression processing, race bias investigations, and neural adaptation studies.

Labs & Teams:
She directs the Burgund Lab (https://sites.google.com/macalester.edu/burgundlab), which employs fMRI, eye-tracking, and behavioral methods to study visual cognition. The lab maintains an active research program investigating how the brain processes complex visual stimuli across emotional, racial, and gender dimensions.