Why are we so easily distracted?
Matthieu Chidharom - Postdoctoral Scholar
University of Chicago
ABOUT MYSELF
I completed my PhD cognitive neuroscience in 2021 at the French National Institute of Health and Medical Research (INSERM) - University of Strasbourg in France under the supervision of Anne Bonnefond. One month after defending my doctoral thesis, I started my first postdoctoral position with Nancy B. Carlisle at Lehigh University in Pennsylvania. Since 2024, I have been a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Chicago, working with Edward K. Vogel and Monica D. Rosenberg.
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My research seeks to better understand why we are so easily distracted. I combine behavioral measures from classic experimental psychology with innovative approaches from cognitive neuroscience (eye-tracking, EEG, fMRI) and machine learning to investigate how distraction unfolds in the brain.
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