Katie Skogsberg MPES Cohort 1, Multidisciplinary Program in Education Sciences

KatieAnn Skogsberg is in her 5^th at Northwestern in the Brain, Behavior and Cognition program (Psychology). Her current area of research focuses on the many facets of attention and how multiple modes of attention function in relationship to each other. These relationships are being investigated using a series of visual attention tasks that make up the “Suzuki/Grabowecky Visual Attention Battery.” 

KatieAnn’s particular interest is the differences in attention abilities that exist between groups. For example, her research has already revealed that men and women excel at different types of tasks, and that participants with attention deficits perform poorly on only a select subset of the tasks. Additionally, she has extended some of these findings to studies using electroencephalographic recordings to explore the neurological correlates of attention and attention deficits. 

Although she has completed her tenure as an MPES fellowship recipient, she is still active in the program. She is also a member of the Graduate Teaching Certificate Program at NU and was appointed to teach two classes this year through the School of Continuing Studies.

View Katie Skogsberg's CV.