Matthew Hilchey

Post-Doctoral Researcher

Matt is a cognitive psychologist at BEAR. He has a broad interest in applying experimental methods to improve our understanding of how our environments, goals and experience jointly determine what sources of information are most likely to attract our attention. Before joining BEAR, Matt served as a post-doctoral research fellow in the visual cognition lab at the University of Toronto, where he conducted laboratory experiments on attention and memory while teaching an upper year undergraduate course on Attention & Human Performance. Matt’s current interests center on devising ways to improve the effectiveness of financial information disclosures on consumer welfare. Matt holds a PhD in experimental psychology from Dalhousie University and has co-authored dozens of papers in the field of attention.