Liberal Arts and Sciences
AI, Metacognition, and Consciousness Lab (formerly the PAC Lab) (AIMC)
Led by Brian Odegaard · Psychology
What we study
The AIMC Lab (formerly the Perception, Attention, and Consciousness Lab) studies how people and AI make decisions together, how well people judge their own perception (metacognition), how the brain combines sight and sound, and the basis of conscious awareness. Experiments with people use eye tracking, EEG and psychophysics, alongside computational modeling and transcranial ultrasound.
What working here is like
- Computational
- Human participants
- Coding helps
- Projects
- 3
- Papers
- 5
What we're looking for
“Unfortunately for undergraduate students, I finished filling out my team for the 2026-2027 year, and I will not have any room to take on any additional (volunteer) undergraduate research assistants until fall semester of the 2027-2028 academic year.”
Current projects
Human-AI joint decision-making
Asks why people sometimes decide better after consulting an AI and sometimes worse, testing whether how well humans and AI judge their own accuracy explains the difference.
Attention, peripheral vision and multisensory integration
Uses eye tracking, EEG and psychophysics tasks to study how eye movements, attention and the brain's blending of senses shape what people perceive.
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Transcranial ultrasound to study consciousness
Tests whether transcranial focused ultrasound, a new brain stimulation tool, can show which brain regions are necessary for conscious, subjective experience.
Summaries are written by AI in plain language from public symposium abstracts and may be imperfect.
Recent papers, explained
- A multisensory causal inference prior is attenuated in musicians and is further attenuated following instruction.
2026 · Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance
Finds that musicians and music students have better multisensory integration than nonmusicians.
- The relative psychometric function: A general analysis framework for relating psychological processes.
2026 · Psychological Review
Develops a framework to study relationships between different aspects of perception and performance.
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- Understanding the representational geometry of psychological and neural spaces across multiple similarity dimensions.
2025 · Journal of Vision
Explores how brain activity relates to different ways people judge how similar objects are.
- The theory of subjective inflation in peripheral vision: accept, reject, or revise?
2025 · Journal of Vision
Tests whether observers overestimate their ability to see in the visual periphery.
- Transcranial focused ultrasound for identifying the neural substrate of conscious perception
2025 · Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews
Plain-language summaries are AI-written and reviewed by us; check the paper for details.
How to reach out
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