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Monica S. Castelhano

Queen's University

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Professor (Associate, Full, Senior Lecturer or above)

Talk Topics: Keywords and/or titles (recommended)

spatial processing and scene processing
eye movements and cognitive state
ASD and complex visual processing

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Monica Castelhano is a Professor in the Department of Psychology at Queen’s University and is an internationally-renowned scholar examining attentional and memory processes in complex real-world environments using eye tracking technology. She joined Queen’s University in 2007, where she is the current chair of the Cognitive Neuroscience area. For her work, Dr. Castelhano has been awarded the Early Researcher Award from the Ontario Government, from Leverhulme Trust, and most recently received an NSERC Accelerator Discovery grant. Her research explores the cognitive processing of complex environments, the function of these processes underlying clinical populations, such as Autism Spectrum Disorders, and how current theory can inform emerging technologies.