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Graduate Students

Embodied cognition; AR/VR technology; human-computer interaction in pedagogy

Lab Affiliation:
Aguirre–Munoz
CIS Graduate Student Chanuwas Aswamenakul

Wealth inequality, political structure, cultural evolution, agent-based models

Lab Affiliation:
Marghetis, Smaldino
CIS graduate student Polyphony J. Bruna

Computational modeling, cognitive alignment, language emergence and change, artificial intelligence

Lab Affiliation:
Spivey, Kello
CIS Graduate Student Ellis Cain

Changes in language usage, semantics, natural language processing

Lab Affiliation:
Ryskin
Sam Cerey

Motor learning/control, cognitive resource limits, nonlinear analysis, Cognitive motor interaction, NOISE

Lab Affiliation:
Balasubramaniam
Cognitive and Information Sciences Graduate student Rachel Casper

Language acquisition, lexical access, bilingualism, executive functions, language change

Lab Affiliation:
Aguirre–Munoz, Bortfeld
Joshua Clingo

Meaning, eudaimonia, consciousness/experience, happiness, wellbeing, self, connection, altered states, psychedelics

Lab Affiliation:
Yoshimi, Jennings, Holbrook

Human-computer interaction, human-robot interaction, evolutionary psychology, technology and cognition, decision-making

Lab Affiliation:
Holbrook
Alexander Dayer

Perception, action, philosophy of mind, skill

Lab Affiliation:
Jennings

Dynamical Systems,
Neural Networks,
Attractor Topology 

Lab Affiliation:
Yoshimi
Cognitive and Information Sciences Graduate student Yasemin Gokcen

Cognitive modeling, cognitive neuroscience, language

Lab Affiliation:
Noelle
Mariel Grace Gonzales

Crossmodal perception, audiovisual illusions

Perception of errors, the role of uncertainty in consciousness

Lab Affiliation:
Backer, Shahin
Helia Hosseinpour

Decision-making, risk and uncertainty, visual cognition and emotions

Lab Affiliation:
Padilla
Zunaira Iqbal

Bilingual language processing, audiovisual speech perception, phonetic representations

Lab Affiliation:
Backer, Shahin, Spivey
Jaskanwaljeet Kaur

Motor control and learning; dynamical systems; cognitive aging; and human-computer interaction

Lab Affiliation:
Balasubramaniam
Emilio Jon Christopher Lobato

Science literacy, pseudoscience, conspiracy ideation, conspiracy beliefs, paranormal beliefs

Lab Affiliation:
Holbrook, Hicks

Embodied cognition, dynamical systems theory, ecological psychology, phenomenology 

Lab Affiliation:
Marghetis, Spivey

Computational Cognitive Neuroscience, Cognitive Control, Working Memory, Decision Making, and EEG.

Lab Affiliation:
Noelle
Graduate Student David Marcos Cuesta

Computational Cognitive Neuroscience, Consciousness, Executive Functions, Embodied Cognition, Mental representations, Neural Networks, Artificial intelligence, Cognitive Robotics

Lab Affiliation:
Yoshimi, Spivey
Cognitive and Information Sciences Graduate student Cody Moser

Collective intelligence, evolution, complex adaptive systems, systems collapse, Austrian economics, agent-based models

Lab Affiliation:
Smaldino
Benjamin Nguyen

Communication, complexity, data science, dynamics, embodiment, emergence, gesture, language

Lab Affiliation:
Spivey

Metaphor, gesture, embodied cognition

Lab Affiliation:
Marghetis
CIS graduate student Liza Oh

Variability in skill learning, cognitive neuroscience, artificial intelligence

Lab Affiliation:
Backer, Marghetis, Shahin, Yoshimi

Cultural evolution, decision-making under risk and uncertainty, cooperation, hierarchy, kinship

Lab Affiliation:
Smaldino

Consciousness, philosophy of mind, artificial intelligence, computational cognitive neuroscience

Lab Affiliation:
Yoshimi, Backer

Judgement/Decision-Making, Emotion, Problem-Solving, Mental Health, and Cognitive processes pertaining to social interactions with oneself and others in the environment

Lab Affiliation:
Marghetis

Language and Cognition; STEM Education, Bilingualism/Biliterarcy, Equity-Centered Assessment, Teacher Development

Alejandra Santoyo

Music cognition & perception, multimodal integration, music-language interaction

Lab Affiliation:
Backer, Shahin

Bilingualism and cognition, bilingualism in education, language and thought, metaphor

Lab Affiliation:
Aguirre–Munoz

Multimodal integration, Developmental cognitive neuroscience

Lab Affiliation:
Backer, Bortfeld

Foraging behavior, ecological psychology, neural networks, decision-making

Lab Affiliation:
Noelle
Cognitive and Information Sciences Graduate student Maribel Viveros

cognitive neuroscience applications in instructional design and content sequencing for STEM learning, oculomotor behaviors, and eye-tracking

Lab Affiliation:
Aguirre–Munoz
CIS graduate student Tevin Williams

Interpersonal coordination, language, music improvisation, music cognition

Lab Affiliation:
Ryskin, Spivey