Background
Cambria is a doctoral student in the Cognition program working with Wilma Bainbridge. She graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 2019 with a B.A. in Biological Basis of Behavior. She then worked as a post-baccalaureate research fellow in the Lab of Brain and Cognition at the National Institute of Mental Health.
Research Interests
Cambria is broadly interested in using neuroimaging and behavioral measures to study recall and memorability of images. She hopes to investigate memorability of real-world stimuli across multiple sensory modalities.
Background
Anita is a doctoral student in the Integrative Neuroscience program at the University of Chicago working with Greg Norman. Anita completed her bachelors in Neuroscience and Psychology at Duke University in 2016 and went on to spend three years in New York City as a research assistant for the Child Mind Institute's Healthy Brain Network. She recently completed the Master of Arts Program in the Social Sciences (MAPSS) at the University of Chicago.
Research interests
Anita is broadly interested in taking a multidisciplinary approach to understanding social processes. She seeks to apply this knowledge to elucidate how psychosocial and biological processes can go awry in individuals experiencing psychopathology, with a focus on the role of [social] stress in the etiology and maintenance of internalizing disorders.
Background
Katie is a doctoral student in the Integrative Neuroscience Program, currently working with Howard Nusbaum. In 2019, Katie received her B.A. in Neuroscience and Psychology from the University of Chicago.
Research Interests
Katie is broadly interested in the neural mechanisms of perceptual and motor learning. She explores these interests in a variety of contexts, ranging from sleep physiology to the brainstem encoding of sound.
Background
Sabina is a doctoral student in the Integrative Neuroscience program working with Greg Norman. She graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with a B.S. in Molecular & Cellular Biology and Behavioral Neuroscience in addition to a minor in Chemistry. Following graduation, she worked as the lab manager of a neuroendocrinology and mood disorders lab at the University of Illinois at Chicago, where she studied the biological mechanisms contributing to depression, stress, and suicidal thoughts & behaviors.
Research Interests
Sabina is broadly interested in exploring the epigenetic and hormonal mediators of dysregulated behavior. More specifically, she is interested in examining how neuroendocrine day-length signals influence dysregulated ingestive behavior, reproductive function, and psychopathology.
Background
Euan is a doctoral student in the Cognition program working with Dr. Akram Bakkour. He received his B.A. in Psychology from New York University, where he completed a thesis under the supervision of Dr. Catherine Hartley. After graduating, he worked as a Research Specialist with Dr. Sharon Thompson-Schill at the University of Pennsylvania.
Research Interests
Euan’s research addresses how the brain forms and flexibly updates memories to support decision making across task contexts. He is particularly interested in using a combination of fMRI and computational modeling to understand these processes within a reinforcement learning framework.
Background
Jadyn is a doctoral student in the Computational Cognitive Neuroscience program working with Yuan Chang Leong. Jadyn graduated from Washington University in St. Louis with a B.A. in Philosophy-Neuroscience-Psychology in 2020. Following graduation, she worked as a full-time research assistant at Northwestern University, where she studied executive functioning in individuals with psychosis-risk and internalizing disorders.
Research Interests
Jadyn is broadly interested in the neural mechanisms of cognitive control and decision-making, and how they interact with affect and motivation.
Background
Nicole is a doctoral student in the Cognition program working with David Gallo. She received her B.A. in Psychology at West Chester University in 2015. Following graduation, Nicole worked as a Research Specialist and Lab Manager at the University of Pennsylvania, Computational Memory Lab with Dr. Michael Kahana.
Research Interests
Nicole is interested in investigating memory deficits in cognitively-healthy older adults and exploring the neural processes necessary for cognitive preservation and compensation as we age.
Background:
Emma is a doctoral student in the Cognition program working with Wilma Bainbridge. Before coming to the University of Chicago, she worked with Dr. Geoff Woodman and Dr. Ashleigh Maxcey at Vanderbilt University for two years. Emma earned a B.S. in Neuroscience from The Ohio State University in 2019.
Research Interests:
Emma is interested in using neuroimaging and drawing methods to better understand how (and what) we remember and why (and what) we forget. She is also interested in the organization of our memory representations.
Background
Michelle is a doctoral student and Institute of Education Sciences fellow in Developmental Psychology working with Susan Goldin-Meadow. She graduated with a B.S. in Psychology, an additional major in Global Studies, and a minor in Arabic Studies from Carnegie Mellon University in 2020. During her time at Carnegie Mellon, Michelle worked as a research assistant and laboratory manager at Dr. David Rakison’s Infant Cognition Lab, where she conducted research on the role of second-order correlation learning in infant language acquisition. She was also granted a summer research fellowship to conduct language education research at the University of Haifa in Haifa, Israel with Drs. Yafit Gabay and Avi Karni, and Dr. Lori Holt from Carnegie Mellon University. In 2021, Michelle graduated with an Ed.M. in Human Development and Psychology from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. While at Harvard, Michelle worked as a graduate research assistant for Project Zero’s Global Children project, led by Dr. Veronica Boix Mansilla and Devon Wilson.
Research Interests
Michelle is interested in exploring communication in different learning and teaching environments across cultures, along with the relationship between language and learning motivation, particularly through conducting cross-cultural and interdisciplinary research.
Background
Alex is a doctoral student in Developmental Psychology working with Amanda Woodward and Alex Shaw. He graduated from Carleton College in 2019 with a B.A. in Psychology and English Literature and then completed a M.S. in Psychological Science at SUNY New Paltz in 2021. During and following his master's degree he was a research assistant for Harvard University's Culture, Cognition, and Coevolution Lab and The Music Lab, helping to develop global databases of story and song to assess cross-cultural universals and variation in psychology.
Research Interests
Alex is interested in how we acquire, understand, and create the unspoken rules and norms of social life. He is also interested in how relationships like friendship, kinship, and the caregiver-child bond create moral obligations, expectations, and tradeoffs between values that don't necessarily hold for interactions between strangers. Lately, he has been thinking about the nature of infants' social evaluations.