Graduate Students & Postdoctoral Researchers
POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCHERS
Dan Denis, Ph.D.
Department of Psychology
Kristin Sanders, Ph.D.
Department of Psychology
Kristin's research examines the intersection of sleep, memory, and creative problem solving. In particular she is interested in how memory representations change over time and how these changes can elicit solutions to previously unsolved problems. In a recent paper, she demonstrated that reactivating memories of previously unsolved problems during sleep increased the chance of participants solving those problems the following morning.
Dr. Sander's CV HERE
GRADUATE STUDENTS
Antonio Martinez-Tlatenchi
Department of Psychology
Clinical Program
Antonio's research focuses on stress and emotional memory with a focus on neuroendocrine systems. Specifically, he is interested in how stress-response related hormones, such as cortisol and testosterone, influence underlying memory formation systems. His clinical interests revolve around how dysregulation in stress hormone systems may contribute to maladaptive memory formation processes often seen in psychological disorders such as PTSD.
Antonio's current project investigates the joint effects of testosterone and cortisol (i.e., Dual Hormone Hypothesis) on emotional memory formation, cognitive appraisal, and other cognitive processes.
Jovian Lam
Department of Psychology
Clinical Program
Carissa DiPietro
Department of Psychology
Cognition, Brain, and Behavior Program
Carissa's primary interests are related to learning, stress, and episodic memory in college student populations. Her current research investigates which learning strategies provide the greatest protection against stress-induced memory impairments, as well as how different learning strategies interact with sleep to influence later memory.
Xinran Niu
Department of Psychology
Cognition, Brain, and Behavior Program
Xinran is generally interested in examining sleep-related characteristics and cognitive factors (specifically memory consolidation and emotion regulation) as risk and protective mechanisms of internalizing symptomatology. Her current project investigates how the tripartite model of depression and anxiety interacts with sleep to predict memory biases for emotional information.
LAB MANAGER & RESEARCH ASSISTANT
Mia Utayde
Department of Psychology
Mia is interested in understanding the cognitive and affective mechanisms disrupted in anxiety and depressive disorders. She is currently working on a project examining how interactions between emotion regulation, trait anxiety, and age influence emotional memory.
GRADUATE & POSTDOCTORAL ALUM
Chaz Rich, M.A.
Sara Kim, Ph.D.
Sara Alger, Ph.D.
Researcher, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research
Tony Cunningham, Ph.D.
Member of the Faculty of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
CV | Twitter
Enmanuelle Pardilla-Delgado, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Scholar, Familial Dementia Neuroimaging Lab,
Massachusetts General Hospital / Harvard Medical School
Stephen Mattingly, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Scholar, University of Notre Dame
Alexis Chambers, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience, North Central College