Bobby Azarian, Ph.D., is a cognitive neuroscientist affiliated with the Visual Attention and Cognition Lab at George Mason University, and a science writer whose work has appeared in The Atlantic, The New York Times, BBC, Scientific American, Slate, The Daily Beast, and The Huffington Post. His research has been published in journals including Cognition & Emotion and Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. He also runs the blog Science Is Sexy.