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Director:
Lisa D. Sanders

Postdocs:
Mara Breen
Amy Joh

Graduate students:
Lori Astheimer
Will Bush
Ahren Fitzroy
Nick Planet

Undergraduates:
Vicki Ameral
Molly Chilingerian
Nick Druar
Russell Hill
Alex Rabkin
Kat Sayles
Ashley Winn

Associates in other labs:
Jane Ashby
Tony Mccaffrey
Michael Ross
Nikkia Sawyer
Adrian Staub
Yibei Shen

 
 
Lisa Sanders
 

Lisa is our fearless leader in the wild world of ERP.
 
Lori Astheimer
 

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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.
 
Will Bush
 

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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.
 
Ahren Fitzroy
 

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Ahren makes with the music.
 
Molly Chilingerian
 

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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.
 
Ashley Winn
 

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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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