Welcome two first year PhD students
Sahere Varastegan and Inik Kim have officially joined our lab! Check out their research training and interests here
MSRIP presentations
The two MSRIP undergraduate researchers, Ahmed Alghorydh and Gabbriele LaBranche, presented their summer research projects, at the annual MSRIP conference.
R’Psych presentations by two Undergraduate students
Congratulations to Lin and Kitzia for their excellent presentations at 2023 R’Psych! Lin has accepted a Research Associate position at Cedars Sinai Medical Center. Kitzia has just started her lab manager position with our LC project.
Newly Minted PhD: Dr. Lilian Azer
Congratulations to Dr. Azer! Lilian graduated from UCR with a BA in 2014 and then a MA in clinical psychology from CalState in 2017. After this brief detour, for lack of a better word, Lilian came back and joined our CCN program as a PhD student. Lilian’s research focuses on the impacts of various health-related…
UCR press release on our handgrip aging paper
Older adults are more easily distracted: Finding highlights age-related declines in short-term memory, cognitive control
Congratulations to Zane
After receiving a NIH K99 award, Zane will be starting his tenure-track faculty position and “Integrative Cognition and Neuroscience” lab at the University of Maryland in January 2024! Congratulations!
UCR press release on our face memory paper
“Celebrities can be easily spotted on the street, although the internet is also flooded with celebrity lookalikes and hilarious “celebrity sightings” where strangers were mistaken as celebrities. These seemingly contradictory “celebrity sightings” phenomena widely reported on social media bring up a question; are celebrity faces remembered more precisely (and hence more recognizable) but less accurately (with biases where…
Newly Minted PhD: Hyung-Bum Park
Congratulations to Dr. Park, our newly minted Ph.D. Dr. Park uses sophisticated experimental and computational methods to assess a unique aspect of memory representation, the precise correspondence between external stimulus and internal representation (i.e., accuracy). Since memory accuracy and various experimental effects on it are captured as μ (μs) in Park’s model, Park has officially…