2012-2013 TRAINEES -- REU Program
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Althoff, Alric
Email: aalthoff@ucsd.edu
UCSD; Lab: de Sa |

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Bseiso, Dina
Email: dbseiso@ucsd.edu
UCSD; Lab: Cottrell |

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Campos, Sofia
Email: svcampos@ucsd.edu
UCSD; Lab:
Chiba |

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D'Angelo, Sarah
Email: sdangelo@ucsd.edu
UCSD; Lab: Chukoskie / Sejnowski |

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Dykstra, Karmen
Email: kldykstra@gmail.com
UCSD; Lab: Bartlett |

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Florian-Ospina, Diana
Email: carolina_1893@hotmail.com
Mesa/City; Lab: Clark |

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Hernandez, Claudia
Email: linx_mouse@yahoo.com
Miramar/City; Lab: Clark |

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Kappe, Aaron
Email: akappe@ucsd.edu
UCSD; Lab: Sejnowski |

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Lam, Cindy
Email: cklam@ucsd.edu
UCSD; Lab:
Chiba |

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McQueen, Nicolas
Email: nicolas.mcqueen@gmail.com
Mesa/City; Lab: Deak? |

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Metzler, Andy
Email: ametzler@ucsd.edu
UCSD; Lab: Sejnowski / Behrens |
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Ray, Nicholas
Email: nisbetterthana@att.net
Mesa; Lab: Cottrell
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Schuster, Luisa
Email: luisa.schuster1986@gmail.com
City; Lab: Chukoskie / Chiba
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Stillerman, Benjamin
Email: bstiller@ucsd.edu
UCSD; Lab: de Sa
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Tonnesen, Alexandra
Email: alitonnesen@gmail.com
UCSD; Lab: Clark |
Former REU Trainees |
2011-2012 TRAINEES -- UNDERGRADUATES
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Barrios, Jose
Email:
jlbarrios22@gmail.com
University of Victoria;
Lab: Tanaka; Network: PEN
Research Interests: visual cognition |

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Blount, Aaron
Email: aaronblount4@yahoo.com
Virginia State University; Lab: Serpell; Network: TRN
Research Interests: models of perceptual categorization |

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Bunce, Billy
Email: hurricane577@gmail.com
Vanderbilt;
Lab: Palmeri; Network: PEN
Research Interests: models of perceptual categorization |

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Choi, Suhwan
Email: suc024@ucsd.edu
UCSD; Lab: Cottrell; Network: PEN
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Collendrino, Celica
Email: CCol3074@students.vsu.edu
Virginia State University; Lab: Serpell; Network: TRN
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Floyd, Riaun
Email: jackie.floyd@vanderbilt.edu
Vanderbilt; Lab: Gauthier; Network: PEN
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Li, Rentao
Email: reli@ucsd.edu
UCSD; Lab: Cottrell |

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Mitchell, Bradley
Email: bradley.k.mitchell@colorado.edu
University of Colorado;
Lab: Mozer; Network: IMS
Research Interests: |

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Trees, Jason
Email: jason.trees@mail.com
INC;
Lab: Poizner; Network: SMN TRN
Research Interests: |

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Umakantha, Akash
Email: akash.umakantha@vanderbilt.edu
Vanderbilt;
Lab: Palmeri; Network: PEN
Research Interests: computational neuroscience |

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Xiao Luo, Anna
Email: x2luo@ucsd.edu
UCSD; Lab: Cottrell |

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Zhu, Alexander
Email: alexzhu94@gmail.com
UCSD;
Lab: Cottrell; Network: PEN
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2011-2012 TRAINEES -- GRADUATE STUDENTS

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Ahmad, Sheeraz
Email: shezzy153@gmail.com
UCSD; Lab:
Angela Yu; Network: PEN
Research Interests: modeling the dynamics of perception/attention mechanisms. |

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Anderson, Emily
Email: ebanders@ucsd.edu
Salk Institute; Lab: Chiba; Network: IMS
Research Interests:
awake, behaving electrophysiology; temporal dynamics of visual feature integration; visual attention |

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Breuer, Andreas
Email: abreuer@uvic.ca
Website: http://ca.linkedin.com/pub/andreas-breuer/17/33/907
Univ. of Victoria; Lab: Bub; Network: PEN
Research Interests: awareness associated with familiarity, greater positive affect -- and how memory may function in relation to unconsciously perceived stimuli
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Cipollini, Ben
Email: bcipolli@ucsd.edu
Website: http://www.cogsci.ucsd.edu/~bcipolli/
UCSD; Lab: Cottrell; Network: PEN
Research Interests: functional lateralization, white matter connectivity, spike timing over varying distances |

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Cui, Tingting
Email: ttcui@eng.ucsd.edu
UCSD; Lab: Cottrell
Research Interests: |

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de Barbaro, Kaya
Email: kaya@ucsd.edu
UCSD; Lab: Deak; Network: SIN
Research Interests: Infant parent interactions and development of attention and early language skills |

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Deriso, Dave
Email: dderiso@ucsd.edu
UCSD; Lab: Bartlett; Network: SIN
Research Interests: designing brain-computer interfaces for cognitive treatment
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Dundas, Eva
Email: edundas@andrew.cmu.edu
Carnegie Mellon; Lab: Behrmann; Network: PEN
Research Interests: the neural mechanisms mediating the development of higher level visual processing. In particular, the development of face processing abilities in individuals with autism
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Ellis, Erica
Email: emellis@ucsd.edu
SDSU/ UCSD; Lab: Deak; Network: SIN
Research Interests: including early language development and word learning in young children with and without language delay |

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Gelfand, Hanna
Email: hgelfand@ucsd.edu
UCSD; Lab: Deak; Network: SIN
Research Interests: language development, particularly relating to childhood language disorders |

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Gibson, Amy
Email: amyntt@gmail.com
University of Queensland; Lab: Wiles; Network: SMN
Research Interests: |

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Gordon, Iris
Email: rakshar42@yahoo.ca
Univ. of Victoria; Lab: Tanaka; Network: PEN
Research Interests: event-related potentials (brain responses that are directly the result of a thought or perception) as well as expert training and face recognition |

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Grosmark, Andres
Email: grosmark@pegasus.rutgers.edu
Rutgers; Lab: Buzsaki; Network: IMS
Research Interests: understanding how the hippocampal output affects computation in the prefrontal cortex |

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Hagen, Simen
Email: shagen@uvic.ca
University of Victoria; Lab: Tanaka; Network: PEN
Research Interests: Expertise Face Recogniton EEG |

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Harrison, Stephenie
Email: stephenie.harrison@vanderbilt.edu
Vanderbilt; Lab: Gauthier; Network: PEN
Research Interests: examining the interaction between expertise and viewpoint invariance |

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Huh, Ben Dongsung
Email: dongsunghuh@gmail.com
Salk Institute; Lab: Sejnowski; Network: SMN
Research Interests: optimality principle and learning in biological motor control system |

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Isett, Brian
Email: brian.isett@bekeley.edu
UCSD; Lab: Feldman; Network: SMN
Research Interests: |

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Jones, Jason
Email: jasonj@ucsd.edu
UCSD; Lab: Pashler; Network: IMS
Research Interests: human learning; computational models of learning and memory |

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Kanan, Christopher
Email: ckanan@ucsd.edu
Website: http://cseweb.ucsd.edu/~ckanan/
UCSD; Lab: Cottrell; Network: PEN
Research Interests: machine learning, object recognition and primate vision |

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Karnowski, Jeremy
Email: Jeremy.karnowski@gmail.com
UCSD; Lab: Yu; Network: PEN
Research Interests: active vision in environments with reward uncertainty and spatial distributions of unequal information availability. |

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Koerner, Adam
Email: askoerner@gmail.com
UCSD; Lab: de Sa; Network: IMS
Research Interests: brain-computer interfaces and neurolinguistics |

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Leeds, Daniel
Email: dleeds@andrew.cmu.edu
Carnegie Mellon; Lab: Tarr; Network: PEN
Research Interests: computational models of brain mechanisms |

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Li, Qi
Email: qililaimend@gmail.com
Univ. of Pittsburgh; Lab: Munro; Network: SMN
Research Interests: temporal analysis
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Liao, Yu
Email: liaoyumail@gmail.com
UCSD; Lab: Deak; Network: SIN
Research Interests: focus on how infants and children develop their understanding of intention mental state and intentionality of action |

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Lin, Yi Ching
Email: linyichen670507@yahoo.com
Virginia State University; Lab: Serpell; Network: SIN
Research Interests: Self-regulated learning; the roles of affect and feedback in learning
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Lindsey, Rob
Email: robert.lindsey@colorado.edu
Univ. of Colorado; Lab: Mozer; Network: IMS
Research Interests: machine learning, nonlinear and chaotic dynamics and cognitive modeling |

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Liu, Estella
Email: hliu6@buffalo.edu
Univ. of Buffalo; Lab: Mercado; Network: SMN
Research Interests: auditory perceptual learning and audiovisual integration |

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Malave, Vicente
Email: vicente.malave@gmail.com
UCSD; Lab: Poizner; Network: SMN
Research Interests: Understanding neural representations with fMRI and MVPA |

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Malmir, Mohsen
Email: mmalmir@eng.ucsd.edu
UCSD; Lab: Cottrell; Network: PEN
Research Interests: |

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Mollison, Matt
Email: matthew.mollison@colorado.edu
University of Colorado; Lab: Curran; Network: PEN
Research Interests: Psychology and Neuroscience |

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Mullane, Mary D.
Email: md.mullane.ucsd@gmail.com
UCSD; Lab: Chiba; Network: IMS
Research Interests: sensory integration in the perception and expression of emotion and interactions between neural process underlying emotive states and those associated with learning, memory an decision making |

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Mullen, Tim
Email: tmullen@cogsci.ucsd.edu
UCSD; Lab: de Sa / Makeig; Network: IMS
Research Interests: brain machine interfaces and dynamics of information flow in cortical networks during cognitive information processing |

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Noh, Eunho
Email: eunoh@ucsd.edu
UCSD; Lab: de Sa; Network: SMN
Research Interests: including classification algorithms for EEG analysis |

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Patel, Jagdish
Email: jagdish@pegasus.rutgers.edu
Rutgers; Lab: Buzsaki; Network: IMS
Research Interests: hippocampus: 3-D topogrpahy of oscillatory activity in the behaving rat |

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Peters, Sue
Email: sp@suepeters.com
Rutgers; Lab: Benasich; Network: SMN
Research Interests: |

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Purcell, Braden
Email: purcelba@gmail.com
Vanderbilt; Lab: Palmeri; Network: PEN
Research Interests: computational modeling |

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Rieth, Cory
Email: crieth@ucsd.edu
University: UCSD; Lab: Cottrell/Huber; Network: PEN
Research Interests: Encompassing areas of perception, learning and memory – specifically how the mind processes dynamic input to extract useful information, including how perception and memory operate, how these processes are learned and how the relevant information is represented in the brain. |

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Ross, David
Email: rossd@cardiff.ac.uk
Vanderbilt; Lab: Gauthier; Network: PEN |

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Salamanca, Linda
Email: lindap.phan@gmail.com
SDSU; Lab: Reilly; Network: SIN
Research Interests: the development of facial expression production and temporal integration with speech and gesture |

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Saulter, Leah
Email: LSau0381@students.vsu.edu
Virginia State University; Lab: Serpell; Network: SIN
Research Interests: Learning-related stress and anxiety; academic performance among minority students |

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Sigurdardottir, Heida Maria
Email: heida_sigurdardottir@brown.edu
Brown; Lab: Sheinberg; Network: PEN
Research Interests: vision, objects, actions, plasticity |

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Stevenson, Cory
Email: cesteven@ucsd.edu
UCSD; Lab: Poizner; Network: SMN
Research Interests: hippocampal electrophysiology
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Sullivan, David
Email: davidsul@pegasus.rutgers.edu
Rutgers; Lab: Buzsaki; Network: IMS
Research Interests: hippocampal electrophysiology |

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Talbott, Walter
Email: wtalbott@gmail.com
UCSD; Lab: de Sa / Movellan; Network: IMS
Research Interests: multi-modal sensory interpretation and perception |

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Till, Bernie
Email: bctill@ece.uvic.ca
University of Victoria; Lab: Bub; Network: PEN
Research Interests: Motion Capture |

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Tong, Matt
Email: mhtong@cs.ucsd.edu
Website: http://cseweb.ucsd.edu/~mhtong/
UCSD; Lab: Cottrell; Network: PEN
Research Interests: salience, visual attention andvisual search |

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Trottier, Leo
Email: leo@cogsci.ucsd.edu
UCSD; Lab: de Sa; Network: SMN
Research Interests: the timing of perisaccadic visual processing using multi-modal temporal order judgments |

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Van Gulick, Ana Beth
Email: ana.e.van.gulick@vanderbilt.edu
Vanderbilt; Lab: Gauthier; Network: PEN
Research Interests: visual object recognition including perception, categorization and memory in visual expertise |

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Velu, Priya
Email: priyavelu@gmail.com
UCSD; Lab: de Sa; Network: IMS
Research Interests: devleopment of a brain-computer interface for walking plus analysis of EEG signal modulation for walking in populations with motor impairments |

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Wang, Panqu
Email: wangpanqumanu@gmail.com
UCSD; Lab: Cottrell; Network: PEN
Research Interests: |

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Whitehill, Jacob
Email: jake@mplab.ucsd.edu
UCSD; Lab: MP Lab; Network: SIN
Research Interests: machine learning and its applications to computer vision; face analysis; automated tutoring systems |

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Wilder, Matt
Email: mattwilder.cu@gmail.com
Univ. of Colorado; Lab: Mozer; Network: IMS
Research Interests: Understanding the temporal components of cognition using probabilisitic models
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Williams, Rankin
Email: rankin.williams@vanderbilt.edu
Vanderbilt; Lab: Gauthier; Network: PEN
Research Interests: exploring competition and interference between multiple domains of perceptual expertise
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Wisniewski, Matthew
Email: mgw@buffalo.edu
Univ. of Buffalo; Lab: Mercado; Network: SMN
Research Interests: how training with sound modifies auditory perceptual performance and electrophysiological responses |

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Wu, Tingfan
Email: t3wu@ucsd.edu
UCSD; Lab: MP Lab; Network: SIN
Research Interests: machine learning and computer vision, with current work on vision-based facial expression acquisition and analysis |

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Wyatte, Dean
Email: Dean.Wyatte@colorado.edu
Univ. of Colorado; Lab: O-Reilly; Network: IMS
Research Interests: the effect of recurrent dynamics on object recognition |

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Xu, Buyun
Email: elikaskywalker@gmail.com
Univ. of Victoria; Lab: Tanaka; Network: PEN
Research Interests: how individual life experiences shape and modify the processes of high-level vision, especially face recognition abilities of those with autisim or hearing impairments |
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Zavala, Corrine
Email: cjzavala@ucsd.edu
UCSD; Lab: Deak; Network: SIN
Research Interests: examining infant stress reactivity and its relation to social, intellectual and emotinal development during the first year of life
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2011-2012 TRAINEES -- POST-DOCS

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Belluscio, Mariano
Email: mbellu@andromeda.rutgers.edu
Rutgers; Lab: Buzsaki; Network: IMS
Research Interests: how the coordinated activity of neurons supports cognitive processes in the brain |

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Birardeau, Gabrielle
Email: gabrielle.girardeau@gmail.com
Rutgers; Lab: Buzsaki; Network: IMS
Research Interests: neural correlates of normal language processing and the dynamic interplay of sensory imput and internalized knowledge in decoding language |

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Blank, Michelle
Email: m.blank.phd@gmail.com
Rutgers; Lab: Tallal; Network: SMN
Research Interests: neural correlates of normal language processing and the dynamic interplay of sensory imput and internalized knowledge in decoding language
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Fujisawa, Shigeyoshi
Email: fujisawa@andromeda.rutgers.edu
Rutgers; Lab: Buzsaki; Network: IMS
Research Interests: physiological mechanism of memory formation
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Heath, Scott
Email: scott.heath@uqconnect.edu.au
University of Queensland; Lab: Janet Wiles; Network: SMN
Research Interests:
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Hernandez, Manuel
Email: manueleh@gmail.com
UC San Diego; Lab: Poizner; Network: SMN
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Herzmann, Grit
Email: grit.herzmann@googlemail.com
Univ. of Colorado; Lab: Curran; Network: PEN
Research Interests: measuring event-related brain potentials to investigate the processes of learning, memory and perceptual expertise, as well as face and object recognition |

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Ignacio, Matthew
Email: matt.b.ignacio@gmail.com
Lab: Reilly
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Khalil, Alexander
Email: akhalil@ucsd.edu
UCSD; Lab: Chiba; Network: IMS
Research Interests: stems from doctoral work in ethnomusicology, focusing on musical synchrony and the development of temporal perception in children |

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Koyama, Maki
Email: makisophiakoyama@gmail.com
Rutgers, CMBN; Lab: Benasich; Network: IMS SMN TRN
Research Interests: MRI & EEG/ERP, Development of Functional Networks in Infants, Dyslexia |

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Minces, Victor
Email: victorminces@yahoo.com
UCSD; Lab: Chiba; Network: IMS
Research Interests: interacting memory systems within the temporal dynamics of the world
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Miyakoshi, Makoto
Email: mmiyakoshi@ucsd.edu
UCSD; Lab: Makeig; Network: IMS SIN
Research Interests: sensory perceptual learning, rodent behavior |

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Miyashita, Toshio
Email: tmiyashita@berkeley.edu
UC Berkeley; Lab: Feldman; Network: SMN
Research Interests: sensory perceptual learning, rodent behavior |

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Musacchia, Gabriella
Email: gm377@rutgers.edu
Rutgers; Lab: Benasich; Network: SMN
Research Interests: Auditory neuroscience, cognition, development, language, music |

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Nestor, Adrian
Email: anestor@andrew.cmu.edu
Carnegie Mellon; Lab: Behrmann; Network: PEN
Research Interests: structure in face representation, face recognition, image segmentation |

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Newman, Erik
mail: enewman@ucsd.edu
UCSD; Lab: Jernigan; Network: SIN
Research Interests: a better understanding of individual differences that predict differential responses to academic and clinical intervention methods. |

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Nishimura, Mayu
Email: mayu@cmu.edu
Carnegie Mellon ; Lab: Behrmann; Network: PEN
Research Interests: the mechanisms underlying face and object perception |

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Nolan, Christopher
Email: cnolan@itee.uq.edu.au
Univ. of Queensland; Lab: Wiles; Network: IMS
Research Interests: Computational modelling; spatial memory, navigation, hippocampus modelling, spiking neural networks, episodic memory |

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Ortiz-Mantilla, Silvia
Email: sortizma@andromeda.rutgers.edu
Rutgers; Lab: Benasich; Network: SMN
Research Interests: normal cognitive and language development (structure, EEG/ERP, behavior) |

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Park, Cheolsoo
Email: chp033@ucsd.edu
UCSD INC; Lab: Poizner; Network: SMN TRN
Research Interests: Brain Computer Interface (BCI), Neuroscience, Multivariate Signal Processing, Time-Frequency Analysis, Statistical Signal Processing |

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Popescu, Andrei
Email: andpopes@gmail.com
UC Berkeley; Lab: Poo; Network: SMN
Research Interests: dynamic changes in inner-structure interactions during learning |

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Pyles, John
Email: jpyles@cmu.edu
Carnegie Mellon; Lab: Tarr; Network: PEN
Research Interests: biological motion perception, social cognitive neuroscience, object and motion perception, funcitonal neuroimaging |

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Richler, Jennifer
Email: jennifer.j.richler@vanderbilt.edu
Vanderbilt; Lab: Palmeri/ Gauthier; Network: PEN
Research Interests: the cognitive mechanisms involved in visual object recognition and categorization, and how these processes are modulated by experience |

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Robinson, Alan
Email: aerobins@cogsci.ucsd.edu
UCSD; Lab: de Sa; Network: IMS
Research Interests: sequence-dependent visual plasticity |

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Rogowsky, Beth
Email: brogowsky@gmail.ciom
Rutgers; Lab: Tallal; Network: SMN
Research Interests: educational translational research on the writing skills of entering freshmen who are required to take developmental writing classes |

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Roux, Lisa
Email: lisa.roux.pro@gmail.com
NYUMC; Lab: Buzsaki; Network: IMS
Research Interests: Using optogenetic tools, I am interested in dissecting the role played by different cell types in oscillation patterns such as theta rhythm or ripple events |

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Simpkins, Alex
Email: alex@casimpkinsjr.radiantdolphinpress.com
Univ. of Washington; Lab: Todorov; Network: SMN
Research Interests: active exploration, coordinated control, learning and control theory |

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Snider, Joe
Email: oldstyle_joe@yahoo.com
UCSD; Lab: Poizner; Network: SMN
Research Interests: merging current theoretical and experimental understanding of learrning, especially as it pertains to motion |

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Stratton, Peter
Email: stratton@itee.uq.edu.au
Univ. of Queensland; Lab: Wiles; Network: IMS
Research Interests: Computational neuroscience, spikes, oscillations, plasticity |

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Wu, Ying
Email: ywu@sccn.ucsd.edu
UCSD; Lab: Makeig; Network: SIN
Research Interests: social cognition, gesture, language and embodiment |
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Xu, Min
Email: longinsky@gmail.com
UC Berkeley; Lab: Yang Dan; Network: SMN |
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2011-2012 RESEARCHERS
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Brown, Tim
Email: ttbrown@ucsd.edu
Neuroscience
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Chukoskie, Leanne
Email: leanne@salk.edu
Salk Institute & UCSD; Network: IMS
Research Interests: the influence of prior experience on saccade (small rapid eye movement) choice. Also Asst. Director for Research, Special Projects, at Autism Speaks |

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Church, Barbara
Email: bchurch@buffalo.edu
Univ. at Buffalo/ SUNY; Network: SMN
Research Interests: Temporal dynamics of perceptual representation, learning, and memory. |

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Forster, Deborah
Email: forster@cogsci.ucsd.edu
UCSD; Network: SIN
Research Interests: primatology |

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Iversen, John
Email: jiversen@ucsd.edu
UCSD; Lab: Makeig
Research Interests: the use of music perception and production as a tool for the study of complex brain processes
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Jew, Carol
Email: caroljew@cmu.edu
Carnegie-Mellon University; Lab: Tarr
Research Interests:
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Moldakarimov, Samat
Email: Samat@salk.edu
Salk Institute; Lab: Sejnowski; Network: SMN
Research Interests: the neural bases of learning; in particular, how neuromodulators affect learning |

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Peterson, David
Email: dp@ucsd.edu
UCSD; Lab: Poizner; Network: SMN
Research Interests: rewarded learning and brain oscillations in humans |

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Quinn, Laleh
Email: lquinn@ucsd.edu
UCSD; Network: IMS
Research Interests: temporal correlative activity of single unit, multi-unit and local field potentials in awake, behaving animals
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Robledo, Marybel
Email: marybel.robledo@gmail.com
UCSD; Network: SIN
Research Interests: cognitive development, infant-parent communication |
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Smith, Christine
Email: cnsmith@ucsd.edu
UCSD; Network: IMS
Research Interests: behavioral neuroscience |
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Wu, Ying
Email: yingchoon@gmail.com
UCSD; Lab: Makeig/ Jung; Network: SIN
Research Interests: social neuroscience, gesture, human interaction, learning, problem solving, and insight |
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