People

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.

Beth studies attention and memory in scenes. She previously worked as a trainee with Chris Baker at the NIH and with Doug Davidson at the Basque Center for Cognition, Brain, and Language. Check out her work here!

Cat is interested in how the neurocognitive systems underlying perception, which mediate how we interact with our environment, drive plasticity throughout development. In applying this broader question to the visual domain, she hopes to better understand the mechanisms at play, and clarify how these mechanisms might contribute to the etiology of neurodevelopmental disorders, like ASD, Schizophrenia, and ADHD. 

Harry graduated from UC Davis in 2022 with degrees in Psychology and Cognitive Science, went to NYU for a MA in psychology before coming back as a PhD student! He's interested in VR and attention during naturalistic behaviors. 

Makayla studies how we use context-based predictions to help guide visual attention. She primarily utilizes EEGs/ERPs to better understand these processes. She developed these interests while completing her undergrad at UC Merced studying the neural underpinnings of cognitive control.

Andrea is a visiting graduate student from Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca. He's interested in real-world behaviors like driving, distraction, and the cognitive neuroscience of attentional control. He's also an avid photographer and mountaineer!