Jef Lamoureux
Jef Lamoureux, Ph.D.
Associate Dean, Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences;
Boston College
Title: Context and Attention in Extinction: A First-Generation Scientist’s Story
Description: First-hand experience in research increases a sense of academic belonging for under-represented students. Here, I describe my journey as a first-generation college student into science and academia, including my current work supporting students from a variety of under-represented groups. I will focus on the research my colleagues and I have conducted suggesting that a change in learned predictive contingencies (e.g., extinction training) causes both humans and non-humans to increase their attention to environmental context cues.
