Stephen Adamo

Assistant Professor, Cognition & Neural Systems

Director, Attention Detection And Medical Observation (ADAMO) Lab

Psychology 126 (Lab)

Dr. Adamo is accepting a graduate student from 2025 applicants.

Research Interests:

Visual perception, attention, and medical image perception.
Visual search: From theory to applied with student and radiologist observers
Utilizing behavioral, eye tracking, and electroencephalogram (EEG) research methods.
Exploring how artificial intelligence (AI) impacts how search performance.
*Joint appointments in Psychology and Medical Imaging

Updated: 11/05/24

Selected Publications:

Adamo, S. H., Roque, N, Barufaldi, B., Schmidt, J., Mello-Thoms, C., & Lago, M. (2023). Assessing satisfaction of search in virtual mammograms for experienced and novice searchers. Journal of Medical Imaging, 10(S11917), 1-13.
Adamo, S. H., Gereke, B. J., Shomstein, S., & Schmidt, J., (2021). From “satisfaction of search” to “subsequent search misses”: a review of multiple‑target search errors across radiology and cognitive science. Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 6(59), 1-19.
Adamo, S. H., Ericson, J. M., Nah, J. C., Brem, R., & Mitroff, S. R. (2018). Mammography to tomosynthesis: Examining the differences between two-dimensional and segmented-three-dimensional visual search. Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 3(17), 1-13.
Adamo, S. H., Cain, M. S., & Mitroff, S. R. (2013). Self-induced attentional blink: A cause of errors in multiple-target visual search. Psychological Science, 24(12), 2569-2574.

Grants Awarded:

Updated: 11/06/24

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