Brian Scholl is a professor of psychology at Yale, where he directs the Perception & Cognition Laboratory. He is a recipient of the ‘Distinguished Scientific Award for Early Career Contribution to Psychology’, and the ‘Robert L. Fantz Memorial Award’, both from the American Psychological Association. He is currently the only faculty member at Yale to have received both the major prize from the Graduate School, the ‘Graduate Mentor Award,’ and the major prize in the social sciences from Yale College, the ‘Lex Hixon Prize for Teaching Excellence in the Social Sciences.’