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Director:
Lisa D. Sanders
Postdocs:
Mara Breen
Matt Collins
Graduate students:
Lori Astheimer
Will Bush
Ahren Fitzroy
Nick Planet
Chance Richiedei
Undergraduates:
Vicki Ameral
Molly Chilingerian
Nick Druar
Russell Hill
Mike Kostka
Richard McGuire
Alex Rabkin
Kat Sayles
Aleksey Volkov
Ashley Winn
Associates in other labs:
Jane Ashby
Amy Joh
Tony Mccaffrey
Michael Ross
Adrian Staub
Yibei Shen
Ben Zobel
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Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience and Behavior Program. My interests in auditory perception and selective attention have led to collaborations with others is cognitive psychology, neuroscience, linguistics, communication disorders, developmental psychology, music, and medicine. |
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Lori is a 3rd year graduate student in the Neuroscience & Behavior Program whose primary research interests are language perception and brain plasticity. Specifically, she is interested in how listeners use basic attentional mechanisms to process the rapidly changing acoustic information that comprises natural speech, and how these listening strategies are influenced by an individual's unique linguistic experience. She is currently using ERPs to study how listeners use temporally selective attention during speech perception to enhance processing at times when word onsets occur, since these instances are especially informative. |
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Mara is a postdoctoral fellow studying language processing. She is exploring, with ERPs, how attention is recruited for the processing of information structure. She also studies how prosodic context influences the parsing of ambiguous linguistic material. Finally, she uses ERPs to study how linguistic experience can alter perception. |
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Will is in his 3rd year in the Neuroscience and Behavior doctoral program. His research is focused on the spatial and temporal distribution of visual attention. His current studies focus on using ERPs to describe a gradient of endogenous spatial attention. Will is also the current lab web guru. |
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Ahren Is a 1st year graduate student in the Neuroscience and Behavior progam. He is interested in the similarities and differences between music and language perception. |
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Nicolas is a first year graduate student in the Cognitive Psychology program. He
is currently investigating the effectiveness of rhythmic cues for temporally
selective attention. He also enjoys playing scrabble and making other people in
the lab feel uncomfortable. |
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Molly is a
psychology major/senior with plans to graduate in december and hopefully
continue onto grad school the next year fr clinical psychology. She is a research
assistant here in the lab and has been involved in some way in almost every
experiment. Lisa Sanders' Sensation and Perception class drew her into the lab
and since then she has learned things that she would never otherwise experience. |
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Ashley Winn is a third-year student currently working on her English major,
Psychology minor, and Teaching degree. In the lab she enjoys assisting in
experiments, reviewing journal papers, and generally helping out whenever
needed. She is particularly interested in how selective attention plays into
listening to music and speech. |
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Yibei is a 2nd year graduate student in the NSB program. She is a pharmacology student in Jerry Meyer’s lab. She also works with Lisa on a project that involves the phonological violations of language processing.
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Russell is a senior psychology major and research assistant in the lab with
plans to continue studying neuroscience in grad school. He is currently working
on AtTimeSeq to study how temporal auditory selective attention differs when
attending totimes and sequential positions in strings of multiple stimuli. He
also likes long walks on the beach and climbing. |
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Kat is a senior year Psychology major, Portuguese minor and research assistant in the NCaP lab with plans to obtain her doctoral degree in clinical psychology. She recently finished running a study looking at the effects of temporally selective attention in and how listeners preferentially process onsets in continuous streams of sound with her lab partner Vicki. She is also the UMass captain on the Five College Sailing Team. |
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Alex is a senior neuroscience major with plans to attend Dental School next fall. He is running the Short Stories experiment as part of his honors thesis for Commonwealth College. The research, which involves listening to four short stories, deals with the differences in processing syntactical and phonological errors. Alex is also a tour guide at the University as well as a Supplemental Instructor for Psych 330 (Behavioral Neuroscience). . |
