Cognition & Perception — Selected Recent PhDs

Recent PhDs from our program are now postdocs and faculty at various universities and researchers in key industries. Beyond the PhD Advisor listings here, consult individual faculty pages for mentoring at other levels and institutions. For most students, PubMed links are supplied to help you find some of their publications. However, many students also have publications in journals not included in PubMed, and you may find additional publications in other databases such as PsychInfo (from within NYU), ISI Web of Science, Scirus.

	Dr. Katja Doerschner PhD 2006 Advisor: Larry Maloney
	Dr. Sara Levens PhD 2006 Advisor: Elizabeth Phelps
	Dr. Amy Joh PhD 2006 Advisor: Karen Adolph
	Dr. Andreas Olsson Post-Doctorate Student Columbia University PhD: 2006 Learning From and About Others: The Cognitive Neuroscience of Social Fear Learning Advisor: Elizabeth Phelps
	Dr. Tali Sharot Post-Doctoral Fellow New York University PhD 2006 Advisor: Elizabeth Phelps
	Dr. Dima Amso Assistant Professor of Psychology in Psychiatry Cornell University Advisor: Scott Johnson
	Dr. Jacquline Snyder Post-Doctorate/Visiting Researcher Karolinska Institute State Research University in Sweden
	Dr. Stephani Foraker Instructor University of Chicago PhD: The Mechanisms Involved in the Pronominence of Referent Representations During Pronoun Conference Advisor: Brian McElree
	Dr. Lisa Feigenson Assistant Professor, Dept. of Psychological & Brain Sciences Johns Hopkins University PhD 2003: On the computations underlying infants' representation of objects and number Advisor: Susan Carey PubMed
	Dr. Karen S. Frieder Psychologist North Central Bronx Hospital PhD 2003: Negative priming and covert attention: Implications for studying clinical populations with attentional deficits Advisor: Marisa Carrasco PubMed
	Dr. Justin Halberda Assistant Professor, Dept. of Psychological & Brain Sciences Johns Hopkins University PhD 2003: Word-learning as logical inference: Disjunctive syllogism and the word-learning strategy mutual exclusivity across development Advisor: Susan Carey PubMed
	Dr. Ipek Oruc Postdoctoral Researcher, Dept. of Psychology University of British Columbia PhD 2003: Three studies on perception of texture-defined form and depth cue combination Advisor: Mike Landy PubMed
	Dr. Melissa Allen Preissler Postdoctoral Fellow Psychology Dept. & Child Study Center Yale University PhD 2003: Picture representation in children with autism and normally developing 24-month-old toddlers Advisor: Susan Carey PubMed
	Dr. Cigdem Penpeci Talgar Assistant Research Scientist, Institute for Pediatric Neuroscience New York University Child Study Center (working with Xavier Castellanos) PhD 2002: Characterizing the attentional mechanisms that affect perception Advisor: Marisa Carrasco PubMed
	Dr. Glen M. Doniger Cognitive Neurophysiology Laboratory, Cognitive Neuroscience and Schizophrenia Program Nathan Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research PhD 2001: High-density electrical mapping of perceptual closure processes Advisor: Gay Snodgrass PubMed
	Dr. Sarah E. Berger Assistant Professor, Derner Institute of Advanced Psychological Studies Adelphi University PhD 2000: Cognition in locomotion: Infants' executive functioning in goal-directed locomotor tasks Advisor: Karen Adolph PubMed
	Dr. Jin Fan Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry Mount Sinai School of Medicine PhD 2000: Functional magnetic resonance imaging of source versus fact memory Advisor: Gay Snodgrass PubMed — "J. Fan AND (Sackler OR Posner)"
	Dr. Patrick O. Dolan Assistant Professor of Psychology Drew University PhD 1999: Response biases, implicit learning, and the effects of age Advisor: Larry Jacoby PubMed — "P.O. Dolan NOT nursing"
	Dr. Joong Nam Yang Research Associate NASA Ames Research Center (working with Jeff Mulligan) PhD 1999: Illuminant estimation in surface color perception Advisor: Larry Maloney PubMed — "J.N. Yang AND perception"
	Dr. Wayne Yang (formerly Wei Yang) Co-founder and Chief Technical Officer (CTO) Mintel Learning Technology, Inc. PhD 1999: Lifetime of human visual sensory memory: Properties and neural substrate Advisor: Marisa Carrasco PubMed — "W. Yang AND memory"
	Dr. Yaffa Yeshurun Assistant Professor of Psychology University of Haifa, Israel PhD 1999: How does attention aid visual perception? Support for enhanced resolution Advisor: Marisa Carrasco PubMed — "Y. Yeshurun AND attention"
	Dr. Hikari Kinjo School of Social Information Studies Otsuma Women's University, Japan PhD 1998: Recognition memory vs. source memory: A comparison of their time-course in a speed-accuracy trade-off paradigm Advisor: Gay Snodgrass PubMed — "H. Kinjo AND (snodgrass OR memory)"
	Dr. Gisela Jia Assistant Professor of Psychology Lehmann College, City University of New York (CUNY) PhD 1998: Beyond brain maturation: The critical period hypothesis in second language acquisition revisited Advisors: Doris Aaronson, Brian McElree, and Martin D.S. Braine PubMed does not include the journals in which Dr. Jia has published. Please consult other databases such as PsychInfo or ISI Web of Science. Scirus - "Jia, G. and language"
	Dr. Peter D. Sparks Department of Psychology & Center for Neuroscience University of Colorado at Boulder PhD 1998: The role of the septal complex in the modulation of emotion Advisor: Joseph LeDoux PubMed — "P.D. Sparks NOT emission NOT magnetization"
	Dr. S. Sabina Wolfson Associate Research Scientist, Psychology Dept. Columbia University (working with Norma Graham) PhD 1998: Thrice rice: Three studies in texture perception Advisor: Mike Landy PubMed
	Dr. Tanya Yuditsky HOCSR Usability Assessments Federal Aviation Authority (FAA) Technical Center PhD 1998: Picture naming and picture fragment identification: An investigation using a priming paradigm Advisor: Gay Snodgrass PubMed does not include the journals in which Dr. Yuditsky has published. Please consult other databases such as PsychInfo or ISI Web of Science.
	Dr. Maria A. Morgan Postdoctoral Fellow Laboratory of Neurobiology and Behavior Rockefeller University (working with Donald Pfaff) PhD 1997: Prefrontal cortex subregions and their involvement in the acquisition and extinction of conditioned fear Advisor: Joseph LeDoux PubMed — "M. Morgan AND (ledoux OR pfaff OR rockefeller)"
	Dr. Yingrui Yang Assistant Professor Depts. of Cognitive Science & Decision Sciences and Engineering Systems Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute PhD 1996: Predicting the difficulty of predicate-logic inference problems: An empirical examination of a predicate logic model Advisor: David P. O'Brien and Gay Snodgrass PubMed — "Y. Yang AND (logic OR Rensselaer OR Johnson-Laird)"
	Dr. Mark J. Young Human Factors/Interface Designer Discreet Systems PhD 1996: The internal representation of visually perceived three-dimensional shape: A test for metric structure on local surface patches Advisor: Mike Landy PubMed — "M. Young AND Landy"
	Dr. Janet Mindes Investigator & Associate Fellowship Director Rosenthal Center Columbia University PhD 1995: The relationship between affect and recognition memory for reproductions of paintings Advisor: Gay Snodgrass PubMed
	Dr. Miriam Z. Mintzer Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences Johns Hopkins University PhD 1995: The cost of surface change in recognition memory for pictures and words Advisor: Gay Snodgrass PubMed
	Dr. Russell G. Phillips Deltagen Inc. PhD 1994: Hippocampal and amygdala interactions in the formation of emotional memories to context: Fear and loathing in context Advisor: Joseph LeDoux PubMed — "R. Phillips AND (LeDoux OR Sapolsky)"
	Dr. Patricia J. Brooks Associate Professor of Psychology College of Staten Island, CUNY PhD 1993: What do children know about universal quantifiers? Advisor: Martin D.S. Braine PubMed includes only some of the journals that Dr. Brooks has published in. Scirus - "Brooks, P.J. and children"
	Dr. Pamela Dalton Associate Member Monell Chemical Senses Center PhD 1993: Context effects on item and source memory Advisor: Gay Snodgrass PubMed — "P. Dalton AND perception"
	Dr. R. Brooke Lea Associate Professor of Psychology Macalester College PhD 1993: The time course of propositional-logic inferences in text comprehension Advisor: Martin D.S. Braine PubMed
	Dr. Yael Cycowicz Cognitive Electrophysiology Laboratory New York State Psychiatric Institute PhD 1992: Suppression of spontaneous cortical activity during visual and verbal tasks Advisor: Lloyd Kaufman PubMed
	Dr. Ira A. Noveck Team Leader of Reasoning, Development, and Pragmatics Institut des Sciences Cognitives Centre National de Recherche Scientifique Lyon, France PhD 1992: How is performance on the selection task affected by pragmatic reasoning schemas? Advisor: Martin D.S. Braine PubMed Scirus
	Dr. Shui-I Shih Lecturer, Department of Psychology University of Southampton PhD 1992: Attentional components in early visual processing: A strength model of visual selective attention Advisor: George Sperling PubMed
	Dr. Joshua A. Solomon Senior Lecturer in Optometry Applied Vision Research Centre, City University, London PhD 1992: 2nd-order processes in the human perception of motion and texture Advisor: George Sperling PubMed — "J.A. Solomon AND (perception or mathematica)"
	Dr. Maria Kambouri Lecturer, Institute of Education University of London PhD 1991: Knowledge assessment: A comparison between human experts and computerized procedures Advisors: Jean-Claude Falmagne and Mike Landy PubMed does not include the journals in which Dr. Kambouri has published. Please consult other databases such as PsychInfo or ISI Web of Science. Scirus
	Dr. Kisok Kim Associate Professor of Psychology, Department of Psychology Iona College, New Rochelle, NY PhD 1991: Recognition memory: the effect of speed versus accuracy instructions and study time in the mirror effect Advisor: Murray Glanzer PubMed — "K. Kim AND memory"
	Dr. Daniel Kiper Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter (Research Associate) Institute of Neuroinformatics University of Zurich and Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich PhD 1991: The spatial vision of monkeys with experimental strabismus Advisor: Tony Movshon PubMed
	Dr. Sophie Wuerger Lecturer in Cognitive Science and Cognitive Neuroscience Department of Psychology University of Liverpool, UK PhD 1991: Depth interpolation, structure-from-motion for chromatic and luminance stimuli, and color appearance under chromatic adaptation Advisors: Mike Landy and John Krauskopf PubMed
	Dr. Karl Gegenfurtner Professor Dept. of Psychology Giessen University, Germany PhD 1990: Iconic memory, color discrimination and contrast detection Advisors: George Sperling, John Krauskopf, and Tony Movshon PubMed
	Dr. Suzan Uysal Clinical Instructor, Dept. of Anesthesiology, Mount Sinai School of Medicine & Staff Neuropsychologist, Phelps Hospital, North Tarrytown & Adjunct Faculty, Psychology Dept., NYU PhD 1990: The effects of chronic naltrexone treatment on lateral hypothalmic self-stimulation, stimulation-escape and stimulation-induced feeding Advisor: Ted Coons PubMed — "S. Uysal AND (Mt.Sinai OR Carr OR Reich)"