Principal Investigator
Post-Doctoral Researchers
Dr. Mariam Aly
B.Sc. Psychology, University of Toronto, 2008
Ph.D. Psychology, University of California, Davis, 2013
Research Interests: How hippocampal computations and representations jointly support perception and memory; whether attention acts to modify the stability of these representations; and how the hippocampus interacts with cortical regions in the service of perception and memory.
Dr. Vikranth Rao Bejjanki
B.S. Comp. Engin.; B.A. Cog. Sci., SUNY Buffalo, 2004
Ph.D. Brain and Cog. Sci., University of Rochester, 2010
Research Interests: Learning and inference as computational strategies for dealing with uncertainty.
Dr. Nicholas Hindy
B.A. Psychology, Cornell University, 2007
Ph.D. Psychology, University of Pennsylvania, 2012
Research Interests: How the brain learns to predict visual consequences of actions.
B.A. Psychology, University of Pennsylvania, 2004
Ph.D. Psychology, Stanford University, 2011
Research Interests: How attention influences, and is influenced by, multiple memory systems throughout the brain.
Graduate Students
Natalia Córdova
B.S. Mathematics, University of Puerto Rico, 2007
M.S. Mathematics, Colorado State University, 2009
Research Interests: Representations in the medial temporal lobe, its role in perception and memory, and how its activity is modulated by attention.
Megan deBettencourt
B.S. Applied Mathematics, Columbia University, 2010
Research Interests: Plasticity of higher cognitive functions, functional connectivity.
Other Lab Affiliations: Norman lab, Hasson lab
A.B. Neurobiology, Harvard College, 2010
Research Interests: Modeling learning and remembering as creative processes, out of which new robust representations emerge that may be leveraged toward understanding novel things. Bridging dualities; especially making sense of the convergent and generative aspects of human memory and conceptual understanding.
Ghootae Kim
M.A. Psychology, Yonsei University, 2010
Research Interests: How prior experience modulates ongoing perceptual processing.
B.S. Symbolic Systems, Stanford University, 2009
Research Interests: How neural representations of objects change based
on their temporal and visual relationships with other objects, and how regions of the medial temporal lobe and ventral temporal lobe might interact to support these changes.
Other Lab Affiliations: Botvinick lab, Norman lab
B.A. Behavioral Sciences, American College Dublin, 2006
M.A. Cognitive Science, University College Dublin, 2007
Research Interests: How statistical learning interacts with other aspects of cognition such as summary perception and attention. Other interests include randomness perception and numerical cognition.
Other Lab Affiliations: Osherson lab, Shafir lab
Lab Manager
Victoria Jackson-Hanen
B.A. Psychology, Columbia University, 2012
Undergraduate Students
Sarah Pak
B.A. Woodrow Wilson, certificate in Neuroscience, 2015 (expected)
Lisa Yankowitz
B.A. Psychology, 2013 (expected)
Research Interests: The effects of multiple regularities on visual statistical learning.
Alumni
Dr. Naseem Al-Aidroos
Post-Doctoral Researcher 2010-2011
Now: Assistant Professor at the University of Guelph
Chris Kelly
Undergraduate Student 2010-2011
Lauren Kustner
Undergraduate Student 2010-2011
Now: Ontologist at Revelytix, Inc.
Adelle Lykes
Undergraduate Student 2010-2011
Ryan McKendrick
Research Assistant 2009-2010
Now: Graduate Student, George Mason University
Yael Nachajon
Undergraduate Student 2010-2011
Nhi Ngo
Research Assistant 2010-2011
Now: Graduate Student, Brandeis University
Mason Simon
Lab Manager 2009-2010
Alexa Tompary
Lab Manager 2010-2012
Now: Graduate Student, New York University
Dr. Sara Verosky
Graduate Student 2009-2012
Now: Post-Doctoral Researcher, Harvard University
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