Professor Dr. Naseem Al Aidroos

Biography

Naseem Al-Aidroos is a Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Guelph. He specializes in Neuroscience and Applied Cognitive Science, focusing on understanding attention, visual perception, memory, and how these processes can be optimized or fail in various situations. His research employs a range of converging measures, including eye tracking, EEG, and fMRI, to investigate the cognitive and neural mechanisms underlying attention. Al-Aidroos's lab, the VCN lab, is dedicated to exploring how attentional mechanisms guide information processing in the mind and brain. Prior research has included examining the distinct components of attention and the ability to control it in both top-down and bottom-up manners. Al-Aidroos holds a Postdoctoral degree from Princeton University and completed his PhD at the University of Toronto. He has been involved in teaching various undergraduate and graduate courses, including Research Methods and Cognitive Neuroscience, and contributes to the academic community through speaker series and mentorship programs for both undergraduate and graduate students.

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