| Student | | | Affiliations | Research question (one per lab) |
| Nina Curley |
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Cognition & Perception |
What are the behavioral and neural similarities between appetitive and aversive learning? |
| Katja Doerschner |  | | Cognition & Perception | What information about the light field does the visual system represent when estimating the color of matte surfaces, and what cues does it use to extract this information from the scene? |
| Jacqueline Fulvio | | | Cognition & Perception | How do people fill in the missing portions of objects that are subject to occlusion by camouflage or other objects that vary in their degree of transparency/opacity? |
| Celia Gonzalez | | | Social
Developmental | How do people manage their membership in social groups, and how does this shape their thoughts about themselves and others? |
| Yun-Xian Ho | | | Cognition & Perception
| How do we perceive three-dimensional texture, roughness? |
| Aaron Hoffman | | | Cognition & Perception | How do people discover useful information? |
| Laura Kressel | | | Social | How are our decisions influenced by temporal perspective? |
| Alison Ledgerwood | | | Social | Why do people believe in the American Dream and other system-justifying ideas? (with John Jost)
How do social groups influence our attitudes outside of awareness? (with Shelly Chaiken) |
| Samuel Ling | | | Cognition & Perception | How does attention affect how we see? |
| Andreas Olsson | | | Cognition & Perception | What are the neural and cognitive processes involved in learning emotionally significant information from, and about, others? |
| Ilke Oztekin | | | Cognition & Perception | How do we retrieve information from working memory? |
| Elizabeth Parks-Stamm |
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Social |
When do strategies help or hamper goal pursuit? How do conscious and nonconscious goal pursuit differ? How do we interpret nonconsciously-activated goal striving? How can subtyping be used to protect the self? |
| Franco Pestilli | | | Cognition & Perception
| How does spatial covert attention affect contrast sensitivity at attended and unattended locations? |
| Hugh Rabagliati | | | Cognition & Perception
Developmental | What mechanisms do infants use to discover and then acquire language? |
| Sarah Shuwairi Carton | | | Cognition & Perception
Developmental
| How do coherent object representations develop in early infancy? (with Scott Johnson)
What are the cognitive and neural mechanisms underlying our perception of continuous and coherent 3D objects under conditions of occlusion? (with Scott Johnson, Clay Curtis, and Nava Rubin) |
| Peter Sokol-Hessner | | | Cognition & Perception
| What is the neural basis of a decision? |
| Kasey Soska | | | Cognition & Perception
Developmental
| How does the perception of 3D objects develop over the first year of life? (with Scott Johnson)
How does infant manual exploration develop in various postures? (with KarenAdolph) |
| Hulda Thórisdóttir | | | Social | What causes people to become either politically liberal or conservative? |
| Shih-Wei Wu | | | Cognition & Perception | How do humans plan movements in environments where explicit costs and benefits are specified? |
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