David Somers
Chair, Psychological & Brain Sciences Director, Attention and Perception Neuroimaging Laboratory Professor, Psychological & Brain Sciences at Boston University
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Dr. David Somers is the director of the Attention and Perception Neuroimaging Laboratory at Boston University. He is also the chair of the department of Psychological & Brain Sciences.
He studies the attention networks of the human brain and how the mechanisms of attention shape our perception and our working memory. His research has uncovered several new brain areas and a new brain network. His work is supported by grants from the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation.
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Our working memory can only deal with FOUR things at a time: Study reveals how we borrow brain power when needed
September 1, 2015
Daily Mail David Somers, College of Arts & Sciences Humans may have achieved a great deal as a species, but there’s a part of our brain that can only track four items at one time… Expert quote: “Would you buy a computer with a RAM capacity of 4? Not 4 MB or GB or 4K – just […]
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The Gift of Sight and the Science of Seeing
June 19, 2012
Technology Review David Somers, College of Arts & Sciences Ten years ago, Pawan Sinha was visiting his father in Delhi when he noticed a startling and tragic sight: young children, many of them maimed or blind, begging on the streets… View article
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