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Cognition & Perception PhD Students

Student	Affiliations	Research question (one per lab)
Elizabeth Allen	Cognition & Perception	For children and for adults, what counts as a good answer to a why-question?
Robert Colner	Cognition & Perception
Nina Curley	Cognition & Perception	What are the behavioral and neural similarities between appetitive and aversive learning?
Eric DeWitt	Cognition & Perception Developmental	What are the neural mechanisms that underlie decision making and how can we integrate neural, behavioral and economic models of human choice?
Katherine Duncan	Cognition & Perception
Emma Ferneyhough	Cognition & Perception
John Franchak	Cognition & Perception
Stuart Fuller	Cognition & Perception	How does attention affect stimulus appearance?
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?
Holly Gerhard	Cognition & Perception	How does the visual system accomplish color constancy?
Simone Gill-Alvarez	Cognition & Perception Developmental	How do children and adults develop behavioral flexibility - the ability to adapt their movements to changes in local conditions?
Anna Marie Giordano	Cognition & Perception	How does attention affect the temporal aspect of visual information processing?
Craig Glaser	Cognition & Perception
Catherine Hartley	Cognition & Perception
Katrin Herrmann	Cognition & Perception
Yun-Xian Ho	Cognition & Perception	How do we perceive three-dimensional texture, roughness?
Aaron Hoffman	Cognition & Perception	How do people discover useful information?
Akiko Ikkai	Cognition & Perception	How do our brains plan, remember, execute and evaluate motor actions?
Shaziela Ishak	Cognition & Perception Developmental	How do infants learn to make adaptive motor decisions in risky situations?
Kyeong Jin Tark	Cognition & Perception
Shin Woo Kim	Cognition & Perception	What is the role of causal reasoning in categorization and induction?
Samuel Ling	Cognition & Perception	How does attention affect how we see?
Andrea Martin	Cognition & Perception	What is the role of memory and attention in human sentence processing?
Goran Milovanovic	Cognition & Perception	How does background knowledge interact with empirical data in concept learning and how do we construct features of concepts in the light of prior knowledge?
Barbara Montagna	Cognition & Perception	How does covert attention affect spatial and temporal aspects of vision, such as spatial resolution and perceived flicker rate?
Leila Montaser Kouhsari	Cognition & Perception	Where in the visual pathway do we process illusory contours?
Ilke Oztekin	Cognition & Perception	How do we retrieve information from working memory?
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)
Bernhard Staresina	Cognition & Perception	What are the neurocognitive mechanisms of memory encoding and retrieval?
Hadley Tassinari	Cognition & Perception	Can human subjects optimally combine prior information with current evidence during a rapid motor task?
Shih-Wei Wu	Cognition & Perception	How do humans plan movements in environments where explicit costs and benefits are specified?
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