Abstract: Dr. Blaser (Psychology) and Dr. Pomplun (Computer Science) will give an introduction to ongoing research both in their labs, and more broadly at the University of Massachusetts Boston.  Dr. Blaser’s area is visual psychophysics (including work on visual attention and ocular dominance plasticity) and he collaborates on projects related to cognitive development, such as the development of visual attention and working memory in infants and toddlers diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder.  He will give a brief overview of some ongoing studies, with a particular focus on the use of pupillometry as a measure of attentional control. Dr. Blaser is Director of the new Developmental and Brain Sciences PhD program at UMass Boston and he and a colleague, Dr. Jin Ho Park, will also give a brief overview of the Cognitive and Behavioral Neuroscience work within that program. Dr. Pomplun directs the Visual Attention Lab and is interested in vision in humans and machines, with a focus on eye movements and visual attention. He will present some of his psychophysical studies and demonstrate how computational modeling can be used to better understand biological vision and build more powerful computer vision systems and smarter human-computer interfaces.