Shaun Vecera

Shaun Vecera is Professor and Director of the University of Iowa Honors Program at the University of Iowa's Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences. His research bridges cognitive psychology and neuroscience, focusing on visual perception and attentional mechanisms.

• Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University (1995)

Vecera's work explores how humans process visual information through attentional selection, distractor rejection, and perceptual load theory. His Cognitive Neuroscience and Vision research spans both fundamental mechanisms and applied implications for executive function and memory systems.

Recent publications examine distractor suppression in visual search, attentional capture dynamics, and multisensory integration effects on eye movements. Key trends include statistical learning in perception, feature-based attention, and cross-modal attentional control.

He maintains research facilities in the Psychological and Brain Sciences Building (PBSB), with laboratory space allocated at 155 PBSB. Office hours are available at 176 PBSB, Iowa City.