Beyzanur Arican Dinc

Graduate Student

Beyza's research focuses on how we can develop and maintain healthy relationships and how our social ties can enhance our well-being through interpersonal emotion regulation.

Nadezhda Barbashova

Graduate Student

Cora Baron

Graduate Student

Cora is primarily interested in how emotions, social identity, and culture influence people's close relationships. She is especially curious about individual differences in support-seeking and caregiving behavior in romantic relationships.

Selin Bekir

Graduate Student

Dylan Benkley

Graduate Student

Dylan is interested in understanding humans' evolved mechanisms for cooperation as well as the evolved social functions of emotions.

Henry Biedron

Graduate Student

Henry Biedron's research focus investigates questions concerning motivated social cognition, collective action, intergroup relations, and social justice. He hopes to study how moral evaluations and system justifying motivations might influence collective actions such as strikes and protests.

Julia Brzac

Graduate Student

Ryan Alejandro Cabrera

Graduate Student

Ryan is primarily interested in animal models of drug addiction to inform addiction etiology and treatment. More specifically, his research examines the influence of AMPA and NMDA-types of glutamate receptors in stimulant drug (methamphetamine, cocaine) addiction and incubation of craving.

Fernando Cano

Graduate Student

Fernando's research focuses on examining the neurobiological mechanisms that underpin the incubation of drug craving. He uses operant-conditiong paradigms and conducts immunoblot studies to investigate potential sex differences in 1) cue-elicted responding tasks and 2) the biomolecular correlates during this incubation of drug craving phenomenon. Fernando graduated with a B.S in Biological Sciences from the University of California, Irvine in 2018. He graduated with a M.S in Biology from the California State University of Los Angeles in 2020.

Tikal Catena

Graduate Student

Carly Chak

Graduate Student

Carly is broadly interested in attentional priority within working memory. Using electroencephalography (EEG), her current research explores how different components of attentional capture modulate the contents of working memory over time. She is also interested in understanding how working memory representations might be further modulated when these different components compete for attentional priority.

Amber Xuqian Chen

Graduate Student

Amber studies how individuals' biases and social behaviors might emerge into a collective phenomenon through the lens of morality, utilizing the combination of neuroimaging and big data analytics.

Ashley J. Coventry

Graduate Student

Ashley's research examines human relationships and mate preferences using an evolutionary psychological framework. She is primarily focused on examining these preferences in LGBTQ+ and consensually non-monogamous populations.

Lee Qianqian Cui

Graduate Student

Broadly, Lee is interested in the dynamics of perceiving others in various social contexts, and how biased attitudes and evaluations can impact, and be impacted by, this process. She's also interested in how AI techniques can perceive this process and to what extent they are biased to certain social groups when perceiving humans.

Cynthia Delgado

Graduate Student

Elise Deng

Graduate Student

Courtney Durdle

Graduate Student

Nicole Emmons

Graduate Student

Nicole's research employs electrical-based aptamer sensors to enable highly temporally resolved measurements of drug distribution within physiological compartments, including the subcutaneous space and the brain.

Sierra Feasel

Graduate Student

Guillem Fernández Villà

Graduate Student

Guillem is interested in how acculturation processes occur at societal and individual levels, and how they can be facilitated in a way that supports people's wellbeing.

Leah Gano

Graduate Student

Leah is primarily interested in using augmented reality to understand cognition and brain function in real-world tasks and activities.

Anusha Garg

Graduate Student

Anusha's research focuses on validating and using the Think Aloud method to study the stream of consciousness, including its contents, structure, and qualities of thoughts.

Benjamin Gelbart

Graduate Student

W. Connor Gibbs

Graduate Student

Connor's research is broadly about transitions and change. His work includes research on veterans transition to civilian employment and cultural implications for changes in personal control.

Hayley Giffin

Graduate Student

Hayley's main research interest is the impact of culture on social relationships and decision making, especially between individuals with different cultural identities. She is also interested in sustainability, well-being, and group dynamics.

Diego Gonzalez

Graduate Student

Hannah Grotzinger

Graduate Student

Hannah's research uses dense-sampling and neuroimaging methods to study the impact of endogenous sex hormone fluctuations on brain function.

Goirik Gupta

Graduate Student

Justin Haiman

Graduate Student

Justin's research examines the stochastic processes that guide serotonergic axon growth. He uses primary neuronal cultures and other advanced experimental techniques to accomplish his work.

Nicole Han

Graduate Student

Nicole's research focuses on human and machine visual intelligence in tasks such as face recognition, gaze perception, and gaze-following. She's also interested in applying AI models to support human performance in relevant visual tasks.

Paige Harris

Graduate Student

Amelia Haruka Harrison

Graduate Student

Amelia is interested in understanding the neural and cognitive mechanisms associated with manipulation of visual attention by studying behavior in tandem with functional brain data.

Kevin Honeywell

Graduate Student

Jocelyn Huerta

Graduate Student

Laura Huerta Sanchez

Graduate Student

Allesandra Iadipaolo

Graduate Student

Allesandra is interested in using neuroimaging methods to investigate the relationships between sex steroid hormones, cognition, and brain structure/function in the context of health conditions impacting women (e.g., depression, anxiety, chronic pain, endometriosis).

Bailey Immel

Graduate Student

Byron Johnson

Graduate Student

Srijita Karmakar

Graduate Student

Srijita is interested in how humans perform complex visual perceptual tasks (such as, gaze-following) in an automatic and efficient manner, and how and why humans and AI differ in such seemingly simple visual tasks.

Madhuri Kashyap

Graduate Student

Margo Le

Graduate Student

Sara Leslie

Graduate Student

Sara's research examines confidence and metacognition in the context of decision-making and memory, investigating their cognitive and neural bases and the interplay of confidence with choice.

Dharma Lewis

Graduate Student

Luna Li

Graduate Student

Luna is interested in reasoning and decision-making under uncertainty.

Yanming (Alison) Li

Graduate Student

Alison’s research focuses how internal information (e.g., goal or memory) influences the encoding of visual information, and the subjective, involuntary nature of conscious perception.

Mengsi Li

Graduate Student

Mengsi is interested in the neural underpinnings of emotion and emotional memory in complex real-world episodes. Her current research focuses on the interactions of emotion and temporal coding (time perception and temporal memory) and their implications for emotional wellbeing.

Danny Lim

Graduate Student

Danny is interested in understanding how visual information is processed in the brain using computational models.

Jungbin Lim

Graduate Student

Shannon M. Lopez

Graduate Student

Shannon is primarily interested in how the effects of alcohol use disorders (AUDs) influence changes in behavior and neurocircuitry.

Ava (Qingting) Ma de Sousa

Graduate Student

Broadly, Ava's work examines social identity, intergroup relations, and emotion using social psychological, neuroscientific and computational methods.

Parsa Madinei

Graduate Student

Hossein Mehrzadfar

Graduate Student

Hossein’s research focuses on understanding the similarities and differences between humans and Deep Learning models in scene understanding and visual attention.

Mitch Munns

Graduate Student

Mitch's research involves the connection between spatial thinking and learning abstract information, such as representing a complex lecture with a diagram.

Elle Murata

Graduate Student

Elle’s research probes the neuromodulatory impact of sex steroid hormones on brain morphology, connectivity, and cognition.

Shravan Murlidaran

Graduate Student

Devlin O'Keefe

Graduate Student

Devlin's research interests are focused on behavioral responses to threat and appeals that promote efficacy, primarily explored in the contexts of health and climate change.

Josh Ortega

Graduate Student

Josh’s research explores the psychology of art and dreams, and how these domains can contribute to a richer understanding of creativity.

Michael Osfeld

Graduate Student

Michael's research interests encompass the fields of learning science and evolutionary psychology.

Diego Padilla Garcia

Graduate Student

Viki Papadakis

Graduate Student

Sophie Peterson

Graduate Student

Sophie's research investigates the neural mechanisms involved in context-dependent reward prediction and decision making.

Sarah Purnell

Graduate Student

Sarah is interested in how stimuli and context affect attention and how these are processed and represented in the brain.

Liz Quinn-Jensen

Graduate Student

Rammy Salem

Graduate Student

Oya Serbest

Graduate Student

Oya is primarily interested in how multilingual environments shape children's understanding of social groups and the roots of stereotyping based on religious ideologies.

Shivang Shelat

Graduate Student

Shivang's research centers on spontaneous cognition (i.e., mind-wandering) and how it affects memory, perception, and attention. He also applies principles in attention neuroscience to optimize human-computer interactions.

Henri Etel Skinner

Graduate Student

Henri researches the attentional and decision making processes involved in our ability to sustain attention.

Shreya Sodhi

Graduate Student

Shreya's research examines how children reason about and use various social categories. Currently, her work focuses on how children conceptualize national identity and immigration.

Danielle Sogbesan

Graduate Student

Danielle is broadly interested in examining the behavioral and neurological adjustments that occur following prolonged drug use. Her current research involves the use of electrochemical aptamer based sensors to understand neuropharmacology and variability in pharmacokinetics using rat models.

Carlos Sosa Colindres

Graduate Student

Joanne Stasiak

Graduate Student

Joanne’s research employs psychophysiological methods to examine the processes underlying awareness of emotional responding with the goal of identifying the various cues individuals use to form perceptions of and understand their complex affective experiences.

Hannah Stone

Graduate Student

Daniel Thayer

Graduate Student

Lexie Topete

Graduate Student

Lexie's research primarily focuses on large scale spatial cognition/navigation ability, and various factors associated with our ability to acquire spatial knowledge of an environment (e.g., GPS use, endocrine aging, and environment structure).

Celine Tsoi

Graduate Student

Lily Turkstra

Graduate Student

Lily’s research interests include the neuropsychological components of vision loss, prosthetic vision rehabilitation strategies, and accessibility design.

Miriam Urie

Graduate Student

Miriam is interested in optimal ways to build and maintain transferable, long-term knowledge in the minds of learners.

Kayla Wang

Graduate Student

Kayla is primarily interested in exploring the utility of EAB (Electrochemical Aptamer-Based) sensors for neuropharmacology in rodents, in the hopes of getting a better understanding of addiction models and underlying circuitry.

Chuyi Yang

Graduate Student

Chuyi is broadly interested in how children conceptualize and understand their many social relationships. More specifically, Chuyi is interested in how children conceptualize nuanced friendships and how these conceptualizations influence prosocial and antisocial behavior.

Asa Young

Graduate Student

Asa's research focuses are in the mapping of neural oscillations, their variability, and relationship to other oscillations across scales as relevant to phenomenological experience.

Lu Zang

Graduate Student

Lu’s research examines how future time perspective, as an individual difference and cultural orientation, is mediated by construal level in shaping human relations, and well-being outcomes.

Fangzheng Zhao

Graduate Student

Fangzheng's research is dedicated to integrating cognitive psychology theories into multimedia learning platforms, such as video lessons and instructional games.

Shangcheng Zhao

Graduate Student

Shangcheng's primary interest lies in understanding the mechanisms and consequences of social learning, particularly how social impressions evolve dynamically during social interactions and how individuals learn to adapt their behavior in new environments.

Mable Zhou

Graduate Student

Mable is interested in using virtual reaility technologies (head mounted display, omnidirectional treadmill) to study individual differences in navigation abilities.