Principal Investigator

Taraz Lee
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@tarazlee on twitter

Assistant Professor
Department of Psychology
Research Interests: Cognitive Control, Skilled Action, Motivation, Choking Under Pressure

Senior Research Scientist

James Brissenden
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Graduate degrees: PhD in Psychological and Brain Sciences, Boston University; MA in Psychological and Brain Sciences, Boston University
Undergraduate degree: B.S. in Psychology, University of Oregon
Research Interests: Cerebellar contributions to visual attention and working memory

Graduate Students

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Jadyn Collado
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Program: Psychology, Ph.D.
Area: Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience
Year: 1
Undergraduate Degree: B.S. in Psychology, Human & Organizational Development, Vanderbilt University
Research Interests: Motor Skill Acquisition, Predictive Processing, Visuocognitive Adaptation
Research Methods: iEEG, TMS, Computational Modeling

Rupsha Panda
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Program: Psychology, Ph.D.
Area: Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience
Year: 5
Undergraduate Degree: B.S. in Cognitive Science, UC Santa Cruz
Research Interests: cognitive motor interactions, motor skill acquisition, embodied cognition
Research Methods: fMRI, TMS, eye-tracking

Jacob Sellers
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Program: Psychology, Ph.D.
Area: Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience
Year: 5
Undergraduate Degree: B.S. Neurosciences, The Ohio State University (BOOOOOO!)
Research Interests: Cognitive control
Research Methods: Forced-response, computational modeling, TMS, fMRI

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Shannon Stokes ([email protected])

Program: Psychology, Ph.D.
Area: Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience
Year: 1
Undergraduate Degree: B.S. Neuroscience, University of Iowa
Research Interests: Cognitive control, functional connectivity, working memory
Research Methods: fMRI, TMS

Lab Alumni

Quynh Nguyen
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Current Position: Machine Learning Scientist
Graduate Program: Psychology, Ph.D.
Area: Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience
Undergraduate Degree: B.S. in Bioengineering, UC San Diego
Research Interests: Deep learning, computational psychology, natural language processing
Research Methods: fMRI, TMS

Tyler Adkins

Current Position: Customer Engineer at Soda
Graduate Program: Psychology, Ph.D.
Area: Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience
Undergraduate Degrees: B.A. in Philosophy and B.A in Cognitive Science (Honors), University of Michigan
Research Topics: Goal-directed control of attention and movement, conscious awareness, predictive processing
Research Methods: fMRI, TMS, computational modeling, behavioral testing, philosophical analysis