Undergraduate students in the lab work on a variety of projects and develop their skills in research design, programming and coding, data analysis, presentation, and writing. Please reach out if you are interested in working with Dr. Robbins as a collaborator or student researcher. Please note that the psychology department at University of Richmond does not offer a graduate program, so I do not have graduate students in the lab.

Current Projects

  • Webcam eye tracking
  • Machine learning and visual search
  • Categorical cuing in search
  • Visual memory in search

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Dr. Arryn Robbins

Principal Investigator

I received my PhD in Experimental Psychology from New Mexico State University, and have since conducted research in a variety of domains that are centered around human cognition. As the principal investigator of the Robbins Lab, I work with student investigators to address basic and applied research questions in visual search, perceptual similarity, category representation, and decision making. I love collaborative projects and mentoring student researchers. When I’m not working, I am outdoors with my family and dogs.

arobbins [at] richmond [dot] edu

Riley Dunkelberger, ’26

Lab Coordinator

Majors: Psychology and Cognitive Science

Hi! My name is Riley Dunkelberger. I began working in Dr. Robbins’s Visual Cognition Lab in the summer of 2024. Currently, I am working on a project with Yining addressing how categorical cuing and visual search within scenes influences the learned associations between scenes and particular category members. Additionally, we are also investigating the role of eye-tracking, more specifically one’s visual cognition, in our research. After undergrad I plan to attend graduate school for either cognition or neuroscience, with hopes of working in the research field. In my free time, I love reading, watching youtube, exploring Richmond bookstores, and playing with my cats.

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