Deborah Cronin
Drake University
Assistant Professor/Lecturer
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Dr. Cronin earned her B.S. from the University of Notre Dame, and her M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She completed her postdoctoral work at the UC Davis Center for Mind and Brain.
Her research uses eye-tracking and behavioral research methods to study human visual attention and visual cognition. Dr. Cronin’s research investigates the influences on when, where, and how we allocate our visual attention, particularly in the context of real-world scenes. Her work examines how our tasks or goals, memories, and visual environment influence how we perceive and reason about our visual surroundings. Dr. Cronin is also interested in the mechanisms that support the perception of a stable visual world across eye movements and the relationship between eye movements, visual attention, and visual working memory.