Matthew S Cain, Postdoctoral Associate

Matthew S Cain

Postdoctoral Associate
PhD, University of California, Berkeley, 2009
mailing address: B203 LSRC, Box 90999 Durham, NC 27708
office: B203 LSRC
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phone: (919) 668-6144

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Research Summary:
 My research addresses the broad question of how performance is affected by context. I am interested in immediate context such as the rules and responses used on the previous trial, the medium-term context such as task-specific training, and the long-term effects of expertise in domains such as video games media multitasking.

Representative Publications:   (search)

  1. M.S. Cain, J.E. Dunsmoor, K.S. LaBar, & S.R. Mitroff (2011). Anticipatory anxiety hinders detection of a second target in dual-target search. Psychological Science, 22(7), 866-871. [doi]  [abs]
  2. M.S. Cain & S.R. Mitroff (2011). Attentional disengagement in media multitaskers. Perception.