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| First Name | Last Name | Lab | Research Project | Graduation Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Qiong | Cao | Feigenson | On the Role of Explanation-Seeking on Inferences and Learning in Early Childhood Education | 2024 Fall |
| Clarice | Diebold | Moss | Minding the Gap: Echolocating Bats Modify Behavior to Contend with Missing Sensory Information | 2024 Fall |
| Caitlin | Corona-Long | Gallagher/Bakker | Amyloid, Tau, and Neurodegeneration: Isolating Preclinical Targets of AD | 2024 Summer |
| Makaela | Nartker | Firestone/Egeth | What do the inattentionally blind see? A signal detection approach to visual awareness | 2024 Spring |
| Vyash | Puliyadi | Knierim | Neural Representations of Landmarks and Goals in the Hippocampal Formation | 2024 Spring |
| Yun-Fei | Liu | Bedny | Neural Recycling for Programming: Exploring the Cognitive and Neural Substrates of a Culturally-Invented Symbol System | 2024 Spring |
| Alex | Mitko | Fischer | Insight Into the Mental Machinery of Intuitive Physics Through Individual Differences | 2023 Summer |
| Zekun | Sun | Firestone | Cognitive Consequences of Visual Complexity | 2023 Spring |
| Shima | Rahimi Moghaddam | Honey | Costs and Benefits of Integrating Information Sequences | 2023 Spring |
| Emily | Sanford | Halberda | Exploring the Limits of Approximate Number Perception | 2022 Summer |
| Chenxiao | Guan | Firestone | The Perception of Possibility | 2022 Summer |
| Tara | Ghazi | Courtney | On the Representation of Spatial and Temporal Structures: Effects in Human Visuospatial Working Memory | 2022 Spring |
| Garima | Shah | Mysore/Adwanikar | Representation of Anxiety-like States by Prefrontal Neuronal Ensembles | 2022 Fall |
| Qian | Yu | Halberda | The Representation of Visual Working Memory: Where, What and How | 2022 Fall |
| Shanmukha Aditya | Upadhyayula | Flombaum | Visual Time | 2021 Summer |
| Hsiang Yun Sherry | Chien | Honey | Neural and Computational Principles of Real-World Sequence Processing | 2021 Summer |
| Tabitha | Kim | Janak | Encoding and Enhancement of the Motivation to Consume Alcohol by the Central Nucleus of the Amygdala | 2021 Summer |
| Jasmin | Perez | Feigenson | Cognitive Consequences of Surprise and Explanation-Seeking in Early Development | 2021 Summer |
| Chao Iven | Yu | Moss | Sonar-Guided Navigation and Hippocampal Encoding in the Echolocating Bat | 2021 Summer |
| Kurt | Fraser | Janak | Setting the Occasion for Reward-Seeking in Brain and Behavior | 2021 Spring |
| You-Ping | Yang | Stuphorn | Primate Anterior Insular Cortex Represents Economic Decision Variables Postulated by Prospect Theory | 2021 Spring |
| Kevin | Himberger | Honey | Reconsidering Visual Statistical Learning: Effects of Attention, Assessment, and Associability | 2021 Spring |
| Seah | Chang | Egeth | Two Mechanisms of Attention: How Enhancement and Suppression Contribute to Visual Selection | 2021 Spring |
| Brittney | Boublil | Moss | Mechanosensory Feedback for Flight Control and Prey Capture in the Echolocating Bat | 2021 Fall |
| Hannah | Schryver | Mysore | Functional Properties of Inhibitory Neurons in the Avian Midbrain Attention Network | 2021 Fall |
| Sarah | Cormiea | Fischer | Interactions with Language in Human Olfactory Perception | 2021 Fall |
| Judy | Kim | Bedny | "Visual" knowledge in the absence of visual experience | 2020 Summer |
| Giulia | Elli | Bedny | I see what you mean: The role of sensory experience in shaping the cognitive and neural basis of concepts | 2020 Spring |
| Juliana | Popovitz | Mysore | Multidimensional Approach to Investigating Neural Mechanisms of Anxiety Outcomes Following Traumatic Brain Injury in Mice | 2020 Spring |
| Li | Guo | Fischer | The interaction of intuitive physics with attention and perception | 2020 Fall |
| Te | Jones | Moss | Environmental Clutter Elicits Behavioral Adaptations During Natural Behaviors in Echolocating Bats | 2020 Fall |
| Michelle | DiBartolo | Courtney | “Can't Let it Go”: The Persistence of Cue-Driven Reward-Seeking Despite Goal-Related Consequences | 2019 Fall |
| Tammy | Tran | Gallagher | The Influence of Objects-in-Context in the Lateral and Medial Entorhinal Cortex | 2019 Fall |
| Corbin | Cunningham | Egeth | The Dark Side of Attention: Inhibition of Distractor Information Facilitates Attention | 2018 Summer |
| Jinjing (Jenny) | Wang | Feigenson | Numerical Approximation in Early Development: Effects of Experience on a Core Cognitive System | 2018 Summer |
| Michaela (Ela) | Warnecke | Moss | Adaptations to changes in the acoustic scene of the echolocating bat | 2018 Summer |
| Feitong | Yang | Flombaum | The Formats of Position Representations in Vision | 2018 Spring |
| Shipra | Kanjlia | Bedny | Preservation and Plasticity in the Neural Basis of Numerical Thinking in Blindness | 2018 Fall |
| Rita | Loiotile | Bedny | Evidence for Extreme Cortical Flexibility: Higher Cognitive Functions in "Visual" Cortices of Blind Individuals | 2018 Fall |
| Felipe | Schiffino | Holland | Pearce-Hall Attention for Learning Parameter: Memory Substrates | 2017 Spring |
| Mark | Schurgin | Flombaum | From Short-Term Tolerance to Long-Term Recognition in Human Visual Memory | 2017 Spring |
| Ninad | Kothari | Moss | Orienting in 3D Space: Behavioral and Neurophysiological Studies in Big Brown Bats | 2017 Fall |
| Stephanie | Leal | Yassa/Egeth | Emotional Modulation of Episodic Memory and Translational Applications to Aging and Depression-Related Cognitive Impairment | 2016 Summer |
| Zhe (Kitty) | Xu | Yantis/Courtney | The Neural Basis of Cognitive Control of Movement Inhibition | 2016 Summer |
| Zheng | Ma | Flombaum | The Prevalence of Correspondence Computations in Visual Processing | 2016 Spring |
| Judith | Asem | Holland | Spatial strategy selection in the submerged T-maze | 2015 Summer |
| Tashina | Graves | Egeth | The Role of Learning in Resistance to Capture by Physically Salient Irrelevant Singletons | 2015 Summer |
| Hrag | Pailian | Halberda | Costs of Manipulating Information in Visual Working Memory | 2015 Summer |
| Anthony | Sali | Yantis/ Courtney | Spontaneous and Learned States of Preparatory Attentional Control | 2015 Summer |
| Aimee | Stahl | Feigenson | The Role of Surprise in Early Learning | 2015 Summer |
| Jeffrey | Mayse | Gallagher | The Role of the Basal Forebrain in Cognitive Inhibition | 2015 Spring |
| Beau | Alward | Ball | Anatomical specificity of the action of testosterone in relation to the regulation of birdsong and the underlying neuroplasticity | 2015 Fall |
| Onur | Iyilikci | Ball | Interactions between the medial preoptic nucleus and mesolimbic reward pathways in the regulation of sociosexual behaviors. | 2015 Fall |
| Yi-Shin | Sheu | Courtney | Cognitive Control of Abstract Task Rules | 2015 Fall |
| Brian | Anderson | Yantis/ Courtney | Value-driven attentional capture: Exploring the influence of reward history on involuntary attentional selection | 2014 Summer |
| Darko | Odic | Halberda | Objects and Substances in Vision, Language, and Development | 2014 Summer |
| Melvin | Rouse | Ball | Testosterone Induction of Male Typical Song and Associated Neural Plasticity in Adult Female Canaries and European Starlings | 2014 Summer |
| Gi Yeul | Bae | Flombaum | Correspondence Computations in Visual Cognition | 2014 Spring |
| Xiaomo | Chen | Stuphorn | The Functional Role of Supplementary Eye Field Underlying Value-based Decision Making | 2014 Fall |
| Stephen | Chang | Holland | The Neural Basis of Autoshaped Lever Pressing | 2013 Summer |
| Amy | Clements-Stephens | Shelton | Characterizing Visual-Spatial Processing within a Dorsal/Ventral Framework | 2013 Spring |
| Amy | Spiegel (Stocker) | Gallagher | Hippocampal Interneuron Integrity in a Rat Model of Neurocognitive Aging and Voluntary Exercise | 2013 Spring |
| Hee Yeon | Im | Halberda | An Exploration of Ensemble Visual Processing through Perception, Attention, and Memory | 2013 Fall |
| Sarah | Stamper | Fortune | Making Sense: Weakly Electric Fish Modulate Sensory Feedback via Social Behavior and Movement | 2012 Summer |
| Caroline | Montojo | Courtney | Rule and Item Information in Working Memory | 2012 Spring |
| Mariko | Moher | Feigenson/ Halberda | Selection and representation of multiple items in working memory by infants | 2011 Summer |
| Jeffrey | Moher | Egeth | The role of explicit inhibition in attention and visual search | 2011 Summer |
| Tyler | Stevenson | Ball | The social and photoperiodic regulation of Gonadotropin Releasing-Hormone-1 | 2011 Spring |
| Arnold | Bakker | Gallagher | The functional significance of increased hippocampal activity in older adults at risk for Alzheimer's disease | 2011 Fall |
| Steven | Marchette | Shelton | Object properties and spatial references: variability, cue strength, and selection priorities | 2011 Fall |
| Hayley | Kleitz Nelson | Ball | Comparative Approaches to the Study of Dopamine and Male Sexual Motivation: What Can Japanese Quail (Coturnix Japonica) Teach Us? | 2010 Summer |
| Adam | Greenberg | Yantis | Uncertainty as a Guiding Principle in the Strategic Allocation of Attention to Objects | 2010 Spring |
| Yu-Chin | Chiu | Yantis | Moment-by-moment tracking of attentional fluctuation in the human brain | 2010 Fall |
| Benjamin | Tamber-Rosenau | Yantis | Neural Mechanisms of Cognitive Control in Short-Term Memory | 2010 Fall |
| Ezequiel | Galarce | Holland | Cue-induced Changes in Motivation for Food: The Effect of Cues Associated with Scarce Foods on Food Procurement and Consumption | 2009 Spring |
| Carly | Leonard | Egeth | Capacity Limits and the Attentional Blink | 2009 Spring |
| Jean-Marie | Maddux | Holland | The Roles of Rat Medial Prefrontal Cortex Subregions in Attention for Action and Attention for Learning | 2009 Spring |
| Michael | McDannald | Holland | The Behavioral and Neural Mechanisms Underlying Conditioned Suppression | 2009 Spring |
| Michael | Saddoris | Gallagher | Complementary Roles for Gustatory Cortex and Basolateral Amygdala in the Encoding of Sensory Specific Associative Outcome Representations | 2009 Spring |
| Jennifer | Zosh | Feigenson | Beyond "What" and "How Many": An Investigation of Working Memory for Objects in Infancy | 2009 Spring |
| Todd | Kelley | Yantis | Learning to attend: effects of practice on information selection | 2008 Spring |
| Yoh Yoko | Okado | Stark | The reconstruction of true and false memories | 2008 Spring |
| Charles | Pickens | Holland | The role of mediodorsal thalamus in devaluation tasks | 2008 Spring |
| Seema | Sayala | Courtney | The effects of working memory practice on information representation | 2008 Spring |
| Naohide | Yamamoto | Shelton | Modality dependence and independence in human spatial memory | 2008 Spring |
| Brock | Kirwan | Stark | Overcoming interference: pattern separation processes in the medial temporal lobe | 2007 Spring |
| Melanie | Palomares | Egeth | Normal and abnormal development of visuospatial integration: a perspective from Williams Syndrome | 2007 Spring |
| Christina | Castelino | Ball | Behavioral and noradrenergic regulation of context-dependent immediate-early gene (zenk) expression in male zebra finches (Taeniopygia guttata) | 2006 Spring |
| Michael | Proulx | Egeth | Top-down and bottom-up processes in visual search | 2006 Spring |
| Jennifer | Roth | Courtney | Controlling the contents of working memory: updating and maintaining items from different sources | 2006 Spring |
| John | Serences | Yantis | Voluntary and stimulus-driven attentional control in human cortex | 2006 Spring |
| Katherine | Helm | Gallagher | Forebrain regulation of hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis function: role in aging and neurodegenerative disease | 2004 Spring |
| Andrew | Leber | Egeth | On the maintenance and switching of attentional set | 2004 Spring |
| Takehiko | Nakama | Yantis | Analysis of Execution Costs for QuickSelect. | 2004 Spring |
| Joseph | Sala | Courtney | Active maintenance and the binding of information during working memory | 2004 Spring |
| Jennifer | Sartor | Ball | The role of variation in singing behavior in the regulation of seasonal neuroplasticity in European starlings | 2004 Spring |
| Sarah | Shomstein | Yantis | Multimodal control of selective attention: the role of parietal cortex during attentional shifts | 2004 Spring |
| Staci | Bilbo | Nelson | The neuroendocrine-immune axis in Siberian hamsters: proximate mechanisms underlying seasonal changes in sickness behavior and immune function | 2003 Spring |
| Elizabeth | Johnson | Jusczyk | Word segmentation during infancy: the role of subphonemic cues to word to boundaries | 2003 Spring |
| Melanie | Soderstrom | Jusczyk | The acquisition of inflection morphology in early perceptual knowledge of syntax | 2003 Spring |
| Joseph | Casto | Ball | Development and hormonal regulation of sex differences in the song system of European starlings: Sturnus vulgaris | 2002 Spring |
| Derrick | Parkhurst | Neibur | Selective attention in natural vision: using computational models to quantify stimulus-driven attentional allocation | 2002 Spring |
| Robert | Rauschenberger | Yantis | When something old becomes something new: spatiotemporal object continuity and attentional capture | 2002 Spring |
| Larence | Becker | Egeth | Attending over space and objects | 2001 Spring |
| Deborah | Drazen | Nelson | Neuroendocrine mechanisms underlying seasonal changes in immune function and energy balance | 2001 Spring |
| Deborah | Duffy | Ball | Endocrine-immune interactions and the relationship with courtship behavior in European starlings | 2001 Spring |
| Ruth | Tincoff | Jusczyk | Infants' attention to phonemic and nonphonemic vocalizations and its role in word learning | 2001 Spring |
| Barry | Vaughan | Yantis | Gone but not forgotten: characteristics of the occluded scene | 1998 |
| Anne | Hillstrom | Yantis | Repetition effects in visual search | 1995 |
| Douglas | Johnson | Yantis | Representations and item-specific learning in lexical decision | 1992 |
| Toby | Mordkoff | Yantis | A unified model of visual attention | 1991 |