Blaire Dube earned a B.A. (Hons) in Psychology from Brock University in 2012, followed by an M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Psychology and Neuroscience from the University of Guelph in 2019. Dube completed a four-year Postdoctoral Fellowship at Ohio State University from 2019 to 2023 before joining the Psychology faculty at Memorial University of Newfoundland in August 2023. Dube's research interests focus on visual cognition, specifically how individuals navigate environments using limited visual information. This includes understanding visual attention, visual short-term memory, and visual perception. Dube's work aims to uncover the cognitive mechanisms that allow people to prioritize relevant environmental elements to achieve behavioral goals, such as finding a friend in a crowd or changing lanes while driving. Particularly, Dube examines how salient and unexpected visual information, like billboards, can capture attention and affect behavior. Dube has published several representative works in peer-reviewed journals, highlighting the intersections of visual distraction and cognitive filters.
Memorial University of Newfoundland • St. John's, NL, Canada
Joined the Psychology faculty focusing on visual cognition research.