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Background

I completed my undergraduate training in the San Francisco Bay Area in the Department of Psychology at the University of California, Berkeley. While there, I worked with the late Professor Irvin Rock examining the influence of attention on visual perception. Much of this work has recently appeared in Inattentional Blindness (MIT Press), by Mack and Rock. I also was involved with studies investigating the dependency on orientation in shape perception.

For my graduate training, I worked with Professor Robert Rafal in the Center for Neuroscience at the University of California, Davis and at the VA Medical Center, Martinez. There, I conducted studies aimed at understanding the neural basis for attention and perception. Towards the end of my graduate training, I became interested in the links between attention, perception, and eye movements.

As a postdoctoral fellow at the University College London, I began work on face perception and attention as part of a Human Frontiers Science Program project. Click here to see a picture of the Driver lab in Queen Square on the Open Day of the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, April, 1999.

I am now an Associate Professor in the Departement of Psychology at Rice University. In Houston, my laboratory is investigating the cognitive and neuronal architecture involved in attention, perception, and action.