General Information:

My initial involvement with the NASA-Ames cognition lab was as a National Research Council Post-Doctoral Fellow (NRC Resident Research Associate).

I am still involved with the lab but am also an Associate Professor of Psychology at San Jose State University.

How to contact me

NASA Ames Research Center          San Jose State University 
Mailstop 262-4                     Psychology (0120)
NASA Ames Research Center          San Jose State University
Moffett Field, California          San Jose, California
94035-1000                         95192-0120
USA                                USA

• Telephone
  • Office: 408 924 5674
  • Fax: 408 924 5605
  • Pager/Voice/Cell: 415 309 0160
• email : mvselst@vision.arc.nasa.gov

Types of Research I am involved in

(all of these are Sub-fields within Cognitive Psychology):

1. Processing mechanisms underlying dual task interference.
   • general description of dualtask research projects
2. Visual cognition ( mental rotation, image scanning, object perception/representation, inter-object relations )
3. Attention
4. Unconscious processing
5. Statistics ( the effect of sample size on statistical procedures )

Papers Online

• Decision and Response in Dual-Task Interference
• Dual-task Interference When a Response is Not Required
• Using an APEX Model to Anticipate Human Error: Analysis of a GPS Navigational Aid
• Dual-task Interference Across Practice: Reductions in Task 2 Slowing
• Response Modality Modulates PRP Interference, Even When Task 1 is a No-Go Trial
• Word Frequency Effects in Dual-Task Studies using Lexical Decision and Naming as Task 2

last update : 3/18/99

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