Letty is a doctoral student in the Integrative Neuroscience program working with Howard Nusbaum.
Background
Aidan is a doctoral student in the Integrative Neuroscience program working with Ed Vogel in the Awh/Vogel lab. He graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2019 with a B.S. in Cognitive Psychology.
Research Interests
Aidan is broadly interested in the relationships between attention, working memory, and visual awareness. He is focused on questions like “What types of attention affect what we see?” and “How is our visual perception morphed by the contents of working memory?”
Background
Hannah is a doctoral student in the Cognition program working with Susan Goldin-Meadow and Wilma Bainbridge. She received her B.S. in Cognitive Science and B.A. in Linguistics from UCLA in Spring 2021.
Research Interests
Hannah is broadly interested in how students learn, think, and apply knowledge in novel situations. Currently, she is interested in examining the mechanisms behind gestures that promote STEM learning using brain imaging methods.
Background
Anna is a doctoral student in the Cognition program working with Monica Rosenberg. She previously worked as a post-baccalaureate fellow in the National Institute of Mental Health after receiving undergraduate degrees in psychology and neurobiology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2018.
Research Interests
Anna is interested in using brain imaging to investigate the neural underpinnings of attention. She hopes to investigate which neural aspects are shared across types of attention and contexts and which are different.
Background
Qiongwen (Jovie) is a doctoral student in the Integrative Neuroscience program working with Jean Decety. She received her B.A. in Psychology and Neuroscience in 2020 at the University of Southern California, where she worked with John Monterosso on self-control and intertemporal decision-making.
Research Interests
Qiongwen (Jovie) is interested in empathy, morality, and decision making. Specifically, she is interested in how different factors such as culture, socioeconomic status, and mental disorders affect people’s moral judgment and how neuroscience methods can help explain the reasons behind.
Background
Jake is a doctoral student in the Developmental Psychology program working with Dr. Susan Levine. He graduated from Williams College in 2014 with honors and a B.A. in Psychology. Jake then spent several years working in education in Singapore before returning to psychological research. Prior to starting graduate school, Jake served as a research assistant and lab manager in the Cognitive Development Lab at the University of Chicago.
Research
Jake’s research explores conceptual development with a focus on mathematical symbols and notations. Specifically, he is interested in how linguistic input and spatial representations impact children’s understanding of mathematical concepts. Through this research, Jake hopes to better understand the basic cognitive processes that drive learning and identify mechanisms to close achievement gaps in mathematics.
Background
Zeynep is a doctoral student in the Cognition program working with Boaz Keysar. She received both her BA and MA in Psychology from Koç University. During her graduate studies, she worked in the Language and Cognition Lab under the guidance of Dr. Tilbe Göksun and studied the bi-directional interaction between language and emotion processing.
Research Interests
Broadly, Zeynep is interested in understanding whether and how the language we speak affects our everyday decisions, interactions and experiences.
Background
Tesnim is a doctoral student in the Cognition program working with David Gallo. She graduated from the University of Louisville with a B.A. in Psychology and a minor in English Literature in 2019. Following graduation, she worked as the lab manager of a memory and cognition lab at the University of Louisville, where she studied memory enhancement in educational and forensic domains, individual differences in memory ability, and the cognitive mechanisms of memory.
Research Interests
Tesnim’s research interests encompass the theoretical and applied dimensions of human memory and learning. Broadly speaking, she seeks to ascertain how metacognition affects mnemonic processes, how the relationship between metacognition and memory is impacted by aging and other factors, and whether metacognitive beliefs can be harnessed to produce positive behavioral outcomes.
Background
Gaby is a doctoral student in the Integrative Neuroscience program at the University of Chicago and is working under Dr. Marc Berman. She received her B.S. in Psychology and completed minors in neuroscience and music technology in the spring of 2018 at the City University of New York – Brooklyn College.
Research Interests
Gaby's interests predominately lie in how different environmental/experiential factors and genetic factors interact to affect cognition and brain morphology across the human lifespan.