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.

David's work in the lab takes us in a new direction to test how cognitive and perceptual demands impact postural control. 

Shea was an undergraduate at Cal Poly Pomona. 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.

​Raisa is a graduate student in the neuroscience grad group. She is interested in studying how well humans remember multidimensional objects, ranging from artificially created stimuli to those that are socially relevant, such as human faces.

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. 

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.