Cognitive Experiments Models
& Neuroscience Lab
Principal Investigator

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David (Dave) Huber, PhD
Professor,
Dept. of Psychological and Brain Sciences
Dave
received his PhD from the University of Indiana. He was a faculty member
at the University of Maryland and at UC San Diego before joining UMass
Amherst in 2013. He is trained in mathematical modeling, cognitive experiments and brain imaging techniques to investigate
perception, memory, and attention.
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Postdocs

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Patrick Sadil
PhD
Student, Depart. of Psychological and Brain Sciences
psadil [at] psych [dot] umass [dot] edu
Patrick completed his PhD at UMass in 2020. He is interested in the
neural mechanisms of visual memory and perception. Projects include neuromodulation
modeling of fMRI data and investigations of sequential dependencies.
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Graduate Students

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Len
Jacob
PhD
Student, Neuroscience and Behavior Program
ljacob [at] psych [dot] umass [dot] edu
Len
received his BS in Biological Sciences from the Federal University of Rio
de Janeiro. He is interested in computational neuroscience, modeling EEG,
and A.I. techniques applied to cognition and neuroscience.
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Tejas Savalia
PhD
Student, Depart. of Psychological and Brain Sciences
tsavalia [at] psych [dot] umass [dot] edu
Tejas received his MS in CSE from IIIT
Hyderabad. He is interested in developing computational models using
Machine Learning techniques to explain neural functions. Current projects
include implicit and explicit learning in motor adaptation.
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Mar Nikiforova
PhD
Student, Depart. of Psychological and Brain Sciences
mnikiforova [at] umass [dot] edu
Mar
received a BS from Rutgers in 2018. They are interested in visual cognition
and perception. Projects include perceptual processing without awareness
and the neural mechanisms underlying shifts of attention.
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Lab Affiliates
Member of CEMNL works closely with the computational
Memory and Perception (cMAP) lab
at
UMass Amherst. Members of the cMAP lab include:

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Rosie Cowell, PhD
Associate
Prof., Depart. of Psychological and Brain Sciences
Rosie
received her BA from the University of Cambridge, UK, and her PhD from
the University of Oxford, UK. She joined the faculty of UMass Amherst in
the fall of 2013. Her research into memory and perception uses
computational cognitive neuroscience, cognitive psychology
and fMRI.
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Merika Wilson
Postdoc,
Depart. of Psychological and Brain Sciences
Merika completed her PhD at UMass in 2020. She is interested in
understanding the neural basis of recognition memory impairments. Her
current project examines visual object processing in healthy subjects
using fMRI to test a theory of brain damage-induced amnesia.
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Natasha de la Rosa Rivera
PhD
Student, Neuroscience and Behavior program
Natasha received her BS in Biochemical and Biophysical Sciences from the
University of Houston in 2015. In the past couple of years her work has
focused on human visual attention in brainstem regions and early visual
cortex. She is interested in understanding the neural mechanisms and
functional connectivity underlying human visual perception.
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Lab Alumni (incomplete list)
William Hopper
(2019 PhD alumnus; now
lecturer at Smith College)
Jeffery Durbin (2019 masters alumnus, now MS/PhD
student in the Biostatistics at the University of Kansas)
Kevin W. Potter (2018 postdoc alumnus, now Research
Fellow, Massachusetts General Hospital)
Lucas Huszar
(2017 undergrad thesis
alumnus, now PhD student at New York University)
Nicholas Blauch
(2017 undergrad thesis
alumnus, now PhD student at Carnegie Mellon University)
Yoonhee
Jang (2012 postdoc
alumnus, now faculty at University of Montana)
Cory
A. Rieth (2012 PhD alumnus, now staff scientist
at Pacific Science & Engineering)
Xing
Tian (2008 PhD
alumnus, now faculty at NYU Shanghai)
Eddy
J. Davelaar (2006 postdoc alumnus; now faculty at
Birkbeck College)
Woo
Young Chun (2004
postdoc alumnus; now faculty at Chungnam National
University)
Faculty Collaborators
(incomplete list)
Diane
Pecher (Erasmus University)
Rene Zeelenberg (Erasmus University)
Richard Shiffrin (Indiana University)
Kang Lee (Univeristy
of Toronto)
Piotr Winkielman (UC San Diego)
John Wixted (UC San Diego)
Tom Wallsten (University of Maryland)
Mike Dougherty (University of Maryland)
Hal Sigall (University of Maryland)
Sarah Mednick (UC Riverside)
Christoph Weidemann (Swansea University)
Ed Vul (UC San Diego)
Tracy
Tomlinson (U
of Maryland)
Nitin Gupta (Indian Institute of Technology)
Patrice
Rusconi (U
of Surrey)
Hal Pashler (UC San Diego)