Hi! I'm Jamal and I like to study how we process and maintain information from a multisensory world. I’m currently working with Kia Nobre in the Brain & Cognition lab as a postdoctoral associate at Yale.

However, I'm excited to say that I've accepted an assistant professor position at the University of California Santa Cruz and will be recruiting students to start in Fall 2026!

My work primarily explores how audition influences visual perception and how memories interact with visual attention. I’m also interested in how we store and use visual memories and in how we measure the strength or fidelity of these representations. To better understand the cognitive and neural mechanisms that give rise to perception and memory, I often investigate these interests through experimental, computational, and electrophysiological methods.

Before joining Yale, I completed my PhD at UC San Diego where I was advised by Tim Brady and Viola Störmer (of Dartmouth).

Outside of the lab I enjoy golf, disc golf, cycling, and soccer (COYS).

Reach out any time! jamal.williams [at] yale.edu