Joy got started in the business with Michael Spivey at Cornell University. She then moved to Carnegie Mellon for grad school with Marlene Behrmann. After that she went to UCL for a postdoc with Jon Driver and then to UCD with Ron Mangun. She was lucky to have been in the lab of caring mentors and brilliant scientists.
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Postdoctoral Researchers
Joe (Zhiheng) Zhou, Ph.D.
zhzhou44@gmail.com |
Joe's research focuses on understanding the relationship between attention and perception. He got his undergraduate and master’s training at Southeast University in China, during which he developed interests in cognitive and brain science. He moved to the US and received his PhD from the University of Nevada, Reno, where he worked with Dr. Lars Strother.
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Joe graduated from Tufts University in 2011 with a BA in Psychology soon followed by a MA in Psychology from Yonsei University in 2014. He joined the lab in 2019 after getting his PhD from George Washington University working with Sarah Shomstein. He is interested in understanding how semantic knowledge influences visual perception and attention. Outside of the lab, Joe spends too much time researching how to brew the perfect cup of coffee and how not to drop cards when shuffling them.
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Graduate Students
Xinger Yu
xeyu@ucdavis.edu |
Shea Duarte
seduarte@ucdavis.edu |
Shea is a second year graduate student in psychology. Her research interests lie in multisensory processing, attention, and how these processes interact. She is particularly interested in using virtual reality to study these phenomena in increasingly naturalistic, yet controlled environments.
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