Syaheed Jabar

Postdoctoral Associate Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Education: BA National University of Singapore; MA,Graduate Diploma,PhD University of Waterloo

Research Areas: Visual Attention, Expectations & Memory


Syaheed Jabar is a cognitive psychologist. He has employed a mixture of techniques to investigate various aspects of visual attention, expectations, and memory, including the use of computational models, EEG, fMRI, eye-tracking and also adapting devices such as gaming controllers for use in cognitive studies. He is currently investigating the processes by which people make decisions from visual displays, and how they incorporate other forms of information such as expectations and probabilities into such decisions.

Syaheed Jabar is currently working under the supervision of Daryl Fougnie on projects related to visual attention and memory.