Profs & Pints DC: How Our Brains Blind Us

Profs and Pints DC presents: “How Our Brains Blind Us,” a look at our minds’ ability to skew what we and why we miss what’s right in front of us, with Arryn Robbins, assistant professor of psychology at the University of Richmond and cognitive scientist who researches visual attention.

We like to think of vision as a reliable window into the world, but much of what we “see” is actually constructed by the brain, and much of our visual experience is filtered out without us even noticing.

Learn how visual attention works—and how it can fail us—with Dr. Arryn Robbins, who studies the interaction between the visual stream and representations in memory and whose investigates ways to improve the performance of professional searchers like radiologists, search-and-rescue teams, and airport baggage screeners.

Drawing from current research in visual cognition, neuroscience, and applied perception, she’ll discuss how attention guides perception and how…