Amy S. McDonnell

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Psychology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USAProfile URL

Dr. Amy McDonnell is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Utah and an incoming Assistant Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience in the Department of Psychology at Colorado State University. Her research focuses on the neural correlates of human attention and how they change when moving from laboratory settings to real-world environments. In one line of work, she leverages scalp EEG, intracranial EEG, ECG, and VR to examine the psychophysiological effects of immersion in nature on attention. In another line of work she utilizes EEG, ECG, and reaction time measures to investigate driver attention during multitasking and the operation of autonomous vehicles.

She is passionate about the advancement of reliable brain- and body-based measurement tools for studying human attention in real-world contexts.