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Ph.D. 2008Post Doctoral Research Fellow at University of California, Davis |
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Tamara BondPh.D. 2006Cognitive Science & Behavioral Neuroscience: Multimodal integration and enhancement; errors in multimodal integration and the formation of illusions or hallucinations; the impact of peripheral and central nervous system impairment on perception and auditory-visual integration; sensory impairments and daily functioning. |
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M.A. 2008Lauren will focus her Masters work on individual differences in emotional attribution. |
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M.A. 2008Kate is interested in emotional language comprehension in children with autism and right hemisphere damaged (RHD) stroke patients. Particular attention is paid to prosody, or the melody of speech, via pitch. A second line of research looks at metaphor training in RHD patients. |
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M.A. 2009Veronica is interested in understanding the way the brain processes reward-specific information. Her research focuses on examining the role of dopamine activity in the performance of previously acquired reward-directed behavioral responses as well as neuronal activity of nucleus accumbens cells during behavioral responses to reward-predictive environmental cues. |
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M.A. 2009Fred is interested in studying the social, cognitive, and biological correlates of emotion regulation. |
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M.A. 2009Joy's research focuses on examining the social functions of emotions, and how context, goals, and personality traits influence emotional preference. |
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M.A. 2009Kate’s research focuses on children’s understanding of different aspects of emotion. She studies children’s attributions of emotion to facial expressions, stories of the causes and behavioral consequences of emotion, and full-body emotional displays to determine which one better taps children’s emotion concepts, and how these concepts change through the preschool years and beyond. |
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Ph.D. 2009Her current research includes a collaborative evaluation project conducted with Moroccan activists exploring the effectiveness of a women’s leadership program, Leading to Choices, on participant’s conceptualization of the self as well as the impact on her participation in the family, community, and professional lives. In addition, Alexandra is focusing on the trends of discourse in the women’s rights movements in the Global South, with particular emphasis on the successful campaign in Morocco to change the Moudawana or personal status code. |
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Ph.D. 2009Mary is interested in the economic and social conditions of low-wage earning families, the factors affecting these conditions, and the relation between these factors and family decision-making and well-being. |
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M.A. 2009Jonathan is a first year Master's student in the BA/MA program. His research interests are focused on the conscious and unconscious influence of music on emotion and memory. Jonathan hopes to learn how exposure to music while simultaneously processing visual stimuli can modulate the accuracy and vividness of one's memory for an emotional event. |
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Ph.D. 2008Stacee studies environmental influences in the development of working memory. She focuses on the role extracurricular activities, particularly organized sport participation, play on cognitive development. In addition to sports, her current research includes other activities that may be involved in enhancing the development of working memory across the lifespan. |
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Ph.D. 2008I am interested in the cognitive and neural organization of the human haptic (touch) sensory system. Specifically, I am studying how the organization of our visual system can inform our understanding of the possible organization of our haptic system. |
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Ph.D. 2009Danielle works with Dr. Michael Numan researching the interactions between hormones, the hypothalamus, and the limbic system in the regulation of maternal behavior in rats. More specifically, she is investigating the role of dopaminergic neural systems in the control of maternal behavior, which might include a facilitatory action of dopamine on the nucleus accumbens and the hypothalamus. This research will contribute to our understanding of neural circuits and mechanisms which regulate basic motivational states. |
