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Bio: Kara is a third year student in the BCS program. She received her B.A. in Psychology from Wheeling Jesuit University in 2007 and her M.S. in Psychology from Drexel University in 2009. She is broadly interested in visual learning and neural plasticity and how these processes are acquired and the underlying neural mechanisms that support them. In addition, she is interested in how these processes lead to perceptual expertise or perceptual deficits. She plans to investigate these processes using both behavioral and fMRI experiments. She currently works with Dr. Kim Curby.

Representative publications:

Blacker, K. J. & Curby, K. M. (in preparation). Enhanced visual short-term memory in action video game players.

Blacker, K. J. & Curby, K. M. (2010). Perceptual expertise attenuates the attentional blink. Visual Cognition: OPAM Report,18(10), 1494-1498.