Dr. Polly Dalton is a Professor of Cognitive Psychology and currently head of Psychology at Royal Holloway, University of London. She also runs the Attention Lab, studying the mechanisms of attention, perception and awareness in vision, hearing and touch. Their work covers a range of topics, including: attentional capture; the relationship between attention and awareness; and the ways in which attention acts within and between the different sensory modalities. They also investigate attentional allocation during real life tasks, such as driving cars, piloting aircraft, remote operation of vehicles and experiencing immersive technologies such as virtual reality. (Source: LinkedIn)