Mentor: Dr. Alex Barnett
Assistant Professor
Project Description
Experts have better memory for events that happen in their domain of expertise. Here, we will explore how expertise impacts attention by measuring eye-movements of participants. We will have basketball experts and basketball novices watch short clips of basketball gameplay and record their eye-movements as they watch. We will then test their memory for the clips they viewed and examine how their eye-movements relate to their memory performance. We hypothesize that shared expertise will lead people to visually sample the same moments and locations of the video clips. We further expect that basketball experts will have superior memory for the clips compared to novices and that this effect will be partially explained by eye-movement similarity among the experts. The experiment has already been programmed and, therefore, the first 4 weeks will consist of data collection, and the second 4 weeks will consist of data analysis. Experts have better memory for events that happen in their domain of expertise. Here, we will explore how expertise impacts attention by measuring eye-movements of participants. We will have basketball experts and basketball novices watch short clips of basketball gameplay and record their eye-movements as they watch. We will then test their memory for the clips they viewed and examine how their eye-movements relate to their memory performance.
Does this project require the SROP Student to be in-person or remote? In-person
Mentorship Statement
As a mentor, I seek to guide, motivate, and learn from all the people that I mentor. I try to take a listen first approach to mentorship and ensure that I am meeting people where they are so that we can work collaboratively to achieve our goals. I signed up for the SROP because, as a person of colour and member of the Black Research Network, I believe in increasing access to research opportunities for historically underrepresented communities.