Graduate Students

Mikaela Armenta

Doctoral student in Integrative Neuroscience

armenta@uchicago.edu

Mika is a doctoral student in the Integrative Neuroscience program working with Jean Decety.

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Dana Beach

Doctoral student in Integrative Neuroscience

debeach@uchicago.edu

Dana is a doctoral student in the Integrative Neuroscience program working with Brian Prendergast.

Deena Bernett

Doctoral student in Cognition

dbernett@uchicago.edu

Deena is a doctoral student in the Cognition program working with Susan Levine and Daniel Casasanto.

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Natalie Brezack

Doctoral student in Developmental Psychology

nbrezack@uchicago.edu

Natalie is a doctoral student in the Developmental Psychology program working with Amanda Woodward.

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Leigh Burnett

Doctoral student in Cognition

burnettlh@uchicago.edu

Leigh is a doctoral student in the Cognition program working with Boaz Keysar.

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Jacob Butts

Doctoral student in Developmental Psychology

jakeb@uchicago.edu

Jake is a doctoral student in the Developmental Psychology program working with Susan Levine.

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Cristina Carrazza

Doctoral student in Developmental Psychology

cristinac@uchicago.edu

Cristina is a doctoral student in the Developmental Psychology program working with Susan Levine.

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Haerin Chung

Doctoral student in Developmental Psychology

haerinchung@uchicago.edu

Haerin is doctoral student in the Developmental Psychology program working with Amanda Woodward.

Gisella Diaz

Doctoral student in Integrative Neuroscience

gisella@uchicago.edu

Gisella is a doctoral student in the Integrative Neuroscience program working with Ed Awh.

Tess Fulcher

Doctoral student in Developmental Psychology

mtfulcher@uchicago.edu

Tess is a doctoral student in the Developmental Psychology program working with Amanda Woodward.

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Nicole Hakim

Doctoral student in Integrative Neuroscience

nhakim@uchicago.edu

Nicole is a doctoral student in the Integrative Neuroscience program working with Ed Vogel and Ed Awh. She is broadly interested in individual differences in visual attention, perception and working memory.

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Rui He

Doctoral student in Integrative Neuroscience

ruihe@uchicago.edu

Rui is a doctoral student in the Integrative Neuroscience program working with Leslie Kay.

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Gabriella Hirsch

Doctoral student in Cognition

gvhirsch@uchicago.edu

Gabriella is a doctoral student in the Cognition program working with David Gallo.

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Hannah Hok

Doctoral student in Developmental Psychology

hok@uchicago.edu

Hannah is a doctoral student in the Developmental Psychology program working with Alex Shaw.

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Yu Ji

Doctoral student in Integrative Neuroscience

yuji1@uchicago.edu

Yu is a doctoral student in the Integrative Neuroscience program working with Leslie Kay.

Yagmur Deniz Kisa

Doctoral student in Cognition

ykisa@uchicago.edu

Yagmur is a doctoral student in the Cognition program working with Susan Goldin-Meadow and Daniel Casasanto.

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Mitchell Landers

Doctoral student in Developmental Psychology

msblanders@uchicago.edu

Mitchell is a doctoral student in the Developmental Psychology program working with Alex Shaw.

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Ka Ying (Becky) Lau

Doctoral student in Cognition

beckylau@uchicago.edu

In 2012, Becky began her doctoral studies at the University of Chicago working with Boaz Keysar. She is broadly interested in perspective-taking, decision making, and multilingualism. Her current project examines how language influences negotiation outcomes.

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Ashley Leung

Doctoral student in Developmental Psychology

ashleyleung@uchicago.edu

Ashley is a doctoral student in the Developmental Psychology program.

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Pablo Lopez Trujillo

Doctoral student in Cognition

plopeztrujillo@uchicago.edu

Pablo is a doctoral student in the Cognition program working with Howard Nusbaum. He received his B.A. in Linguistics and B.A. in Neuroscience from the University of Chicago in the spring of 2019.

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Jenny Lu

Doctoral student in Developmental Psychology

jennylu@uchicago.edu

Jenny is a doctoral student in the developmental program working with Susan-Goldin-Meadow and Amanda Woodward. She is broadly interested in the interplay of gesture and language in sign and spoken languages.

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Nicole Miller

Doctoral student in Cognition

nicolemiller@uchicago.edu

Nicole is a doctoral student in the Cognition program working with David Gallo.

Nikolay Nichiporuk

Doctoral student in Integrative Neuroscience

nichiporuk@uchicago.edu

Nikolay Nichiporuk is a doctoral student in the Integrative Neuroscience program working with Steven Shevell. 

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Madeleine Oswald

Doctoral student in Developmental Psychology

moswald@uchicago.edu

Maddy is a doctoral student in the Developmental Psychology program working with Susan Levine. 

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Jaelyn Peiso

Doctoral student in Social Psychology

jaepeiso@uchicago.edu

Jaelyn Peiso is a doctoral student in the Social Psychology program working with Steve Shevell.

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Katherine Reis

Doctoral student in Integrative Neuroscience

kreis@uchicago.edu

Katherine Reis is a doctoral student in the Integrative Neuroscience program working with Howard Nusbaum.

Jonathan Riggle

Doctoral student in Integrative Neuroscience

jpriggle@uchicago.edu

JP is a doctoral student in the Integrative Neuroscience program working with Brian Prendergast.

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Radhika Santhanagopalan

Doctoral students in Developmental Psychology

radhikas@uchicago.edu

Radhika is a doctoral student in Developmental psychology working with Katherine Kinzler.

Kathryn Schertz

Doctoral student in Integrative Neuroscience

kschertz@uchicago.edu

Kate is a doctoral student in the Integrative Neuroscience program working with Marc Berman. She is broadly interested in how one’s physical environment affects physical and mental health, with a focus on the different influences of natural and built environments on attention and fatigue

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Andrew Sheriff

Doctoral student in Integrative Neuroscience

asheriff@uchicago.edu

Andrew is a doctoral student in Integrative Neuroscience working with Leslie Kay. He is interested in the role of the hippocampus in spatial memory and attention, in relation to sensory and cortical circuits.

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Emily Slezak

Doctoral student in Integrative Neuroscience

easlezak@uchicago.edu

Emily is a doctoral student in the Integrative Neuroscience program working with Steve Shevell. She received her B.S. in Psychology from the University of Washington in 2014 where she worked with Steve Buck on human color vision. 

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Andrew Stier

Doctoral student in Integrative Neuroscience

andrewstier@uchicago.edu

Andrew is a doctoral student in the Integrative Neuroscience program working with Marc Berman.

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Elayne Teska

Doctoral Student in Cognitive Psychology and Comparative Human Development

teskae@uchicago.edu

Layne is a doctoral student in the cognitive program and the Department of Comparative Human Development working with Susan Goldin-Meadow and Lindsey Richland. At the University of Chicago, she is an Institute of Education Sciences Pre-Doctoral Fellow as well as a Chicago Center for Teaching Fellow.

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Anirudh Tiwathia

Doctoral student in Cognition

atiwathia@uchicago.edu

Anirudh is currently enrolled in the Joint PhD program in Psychology (Cognition Area) and Business (Behavioral Science at the Center for Decision Research). He is interested in studying judgment & decision making (JDM), especially the role of attention in choice behavior. 

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John Veilette

Doctoral student in Integrative Neuroscience

johnv@uchicago.edu

John Veilette is a doctoral student in the Integrative Neuroscience program working with Howard Nusbaum.

Elayne Vollman

Layne is a doctoral student in the cognitive program and in the Department of Comparative Human Development working with Susan Goldin-Meadow.

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Kevin Wei

Doctoral student in Social Psychology

kwei17@uchicago.edu

Kevin is a doctoral student in the Social Psychology program. He is interested in studying implicit bias and motivated reasoning. 

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Ziwei Zhang

Doctoral student in Cognition

zz112@uchicago.edu

Ziwei is a doctoral student in the Cognition program working with Monica Rosenberg. 

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