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Graduate student in the Remage-Healey lab

Advisor: Mariana Pereira

Research Interests: Auditory attention, speech perception, and the relationship between attention and language skills in children and adults

I am broadly interested in perception and cognition, and how they change (or don’t) during childhood. My work focuses on how children represent space in the world around them, and how they use their understanding of spatial information to help learn what numbers are and how to use them. Similarly, I am interested in how children use spatial representations to understand how objects move in the world (‘intuitive physics’) and how to move them in their mind (‘mental rotation’). My research program uses both behavioral and neural (fMRI) methods, in both young children and adults.

Evolutionary Genomics

Advisor: Ilia Karatsoreos
Research interests: I study metabolism at the organismal and cellular level, and specifically how it is affected by circadian rhythms and endocannabinoid signaling

Associate Professor; Chair of Neuroscience, Department of Psychology, Amherst College

Professor of Biological Sciences and Neuroscience, Smith College

Advisor: Gerald B. Downes
Research interests: The function, development, and evolution of neural circuits underlying cognition, Advisor: Gerald B. Downes

We seek to understand the principles of how social and defensive stimuli are encoded in the activity of neurons, and how this process can be modulated by behavior state, experience, and neuromodulation.