Giovanna C. Del Sordo

About me

I am a postdoctoral research fellow in the Vision Sciences & Memory Lab at New Mexico State University (NMSU), working Dr. Michael Hout, on projects spanning visual sustained attention, visual and anomaly search, and decision-making. Broadly, my research investigates human attentional processes, with the main objective of understanding how it relates to LC-NE (locus-coeruleus norepinephrine) system functioning. 

I am currently one of the organizers for the OPAM (Object Perception, Attention, and Memory) Conference for the years 2025-2026, as well as a member of the Graduate Student and Postdoc Committee for the Psychonomic Society. 

Additionally, I am participating in editorial work through a position as Intern Junior Editor at the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, under the mentorship of Dr Isabel Gauthier. 

I also work as a methodologist/statistician on various projects outside of my primary research area. 

I completed my PhD in Experimental Psychology in the EMMA (Eye-Movements, Memory, & Attention) Lab at New Mexico State University with Dr. Megan Papesh.