Education

• Ph.D., Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University
• B.A., Psychology, Cornell University

About

Research Focus

Professor Geng’s research focuses on how goal-directed and sensory-driven information are integrated to determine what we perceive. The purpose of her work is to understand the mechanisms of attentional control that flexibly balance the ability to select task-relevant information and suppress irrelevant distractors. She is interested in both the neural and cognitive processes involved and uses fMRI and eye-tracking combined with response time and accuracy measurements in 2D and 3D contexts.

Lab

Integrated Attention Lab (Geng)

Publications

Yu, X., Zhou, Z, Becker, S.I., Boettcher, S.E.P., Geng, J.J. (2023). Good-enough attentional guidance. Trends Cogn Sci. Apr;27(4):391-403. 

Geng, J.J., Won, B., Carlisle, N.B. (2019). Distractor ignoring: strategies, learning, and passive filtering. Current Directions in Psychological Science

Geng, J.J. and Witkowski, P. (2019). Template-to-distractor distinctiveness regulates visual search efficiency. Current Opinion in Psychology, 29:119-125

Geng, J.J., (2014). Attentional mechanisms of distractor suppression. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 23(2) 147-153

Geng, J.J., and Vossel, S. (2013). Re-evaluating the role of TPJ in attentional control: contextual updating? Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews. 37(10 Pt 2):2608-20

Behrmann, M., Geng, J.J., and Shomstein, S. (2004). Parietal cortex and attention. Current Opinion in Neurobiology, 14:212-217

Teaching

Professor Geng teaches in the areas of Cognitive Neuroscience, Perception, and Research Methods in Psychology.