Dr. Marvin Chun

Biography

Marvin Chun is the Richard M. Colgate Professor at Yale University, where he teaches in the Department of Psychology. He received his Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1994. Chun's research employs functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to study key cognitive processes such as visual attention, memory, decision-making, and perception. His work focuses on decoding brain activity with fMRI to understand how individuals perceive and remember information and how they make decisions. For example, he explores how people guess faces by viewing them and determines the factors that lead to attentiveness or distraction. One of his main goals is to utilize fMRI to predict individual differences in behavior and performance on various tasks, even when individuals are not actively engaged in the task being scanned.

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