Deborah Cesarini
Coordinator of DIBS Methods Meetings. PhD student at Duke University working with Drs. Walter Sinnott-Armstrong and Scott Huettel on how real and fictional narratives influence people's moral cognition, with a focus on developing interventions to enhance moral decision-making.
Kevin O'Neill
Postdoc at University College London working on metacognition and causal reasoning. Former PhD student at Duke University with Drs. Felipe De Brigard and John Pearson. Founder of DIBS Methods Meetings.
Miles Martinez
PhD student at Duke University working with Dr. John Pearson to develop and apply computational methods to understand the neural bases of natural learning.
Raphael Geddert
Senior Associate Data Scientist at Gilead Sciences. Former PhD student at Duke University working with Dr. Tobias Egner on cognitive control.
Ari Khoudary
PhD student in Cognitive Science at UC Irvine working with Drs. Megan Peters and Aaron Bornstein to study how humans use past experiences to behave more adaptively in the present.
Shenyang Huang
Applied Scientist at Microsoft AI working on improving people’s search experiences with Bing. Former PhD student at Duke University working with Drs. Roberto Cabeza, Simon Davis, and Felipe De Brigard on the behavioral and neural attributes of human memory.
Pranjal Gupta
Data scientist. Former PhD student at Duke University working with Dr. John Pearson on online dimensionality reduction.
Nathan Liang
PhD student in Social & Personality Psychology at Cornell University working with Dr. Laura Niemi on social learning and moral reasoning.
Allie Sinclair
Assistant Professor at Rice University studying how people update their memories, beliefs, and behaviors. Former PhD student in Cognitive Neuroscience at Duke University working with Dr. Alison Adcock and Dr. Gregory Samanez-Larkin studying how people learn from error.
Anne Draelos
Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan applying machine learning and statistical techniques to facilitate real-time analysis of neural and behavioral data. Former postdoc at Duke University working with Dr. John Pearson developing a real-time neural analysis platform.
Audrey Siqi-Liu
Postdoc at George Washington University working with Drs. Stephen Mitroff and Dwight Kravits on questions about visual cognition. Former PhD student at Duke University working with Drs. Tobias Egner and Marty Woldorff to study adaptive cognitive flexibility.
Breanna Nguyen
Post-baccalaureate researcher at Duke University working with Dr. Walter Sinnott-Armstrong on computational cognition, the natural environment and mental health, experimental philosophy, and modeling moral decisions.
Daniela DeAlbuquerque
MD-PhD Student in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Duke University working with Dr. John Pearson to apply modern machine learning and data science techniques to develop new methods for brain imaging analysis.
Yaohui Ding
Postdoctoral associate at Duke University working with Dr. Kevin LaBar on neural computational modeling of affect and emotion, brain connectivity, and psychophysiology.
Gabriela Fernandez Miranda
PhD student at Duke University working with Dr. Felipe De Brigard to understand the effect that forgiveness has on traumatic memories in the context of war.
Kaylee Miceli
PhD student at Duke University working with Drs. Cristina Salvador and Felipe De Brigard on how memory and self differ across cultures with varying levels of interdependence.
Liz O'Gorman
Former PhD student at Duke University working with Dr. John Pearson on real-time adaptive experimental methods and deep learning.
Trevor Alston
PhD student at Duke University working with Dr. John Pearson to build a real-time tool for detecting latent patterns for oscillatory neural data.
Clara Sandu
Lab manager and research associate at Duke University working with Dr. Scott Huettel on the cognitive underpinnings of complex social behavior and decision-making, including processes such as empathy/theory of mind, sensory perception, attention, memory, and imagination.
Helen Vonderhaar
Lab manager and research associate at Duke University working with Dr. Rick Hoyle in the Center for the Study of Addictive Risk and Resilience.
Ilayda Orhan
PhD student at Duke University working with Dr. Maureen Craig on how people conceptualize different social inequalities and what leads them to act in ways that either mitigate, maintain or exacerbate these inequalities.
Jade Terry
PhD student at Duke University working with Drs. Scott Huettel and Greg Samanez-Larkin on the influence of social inequalities and social status in decision making.
Jaime Rios
PhD student at Duke University working with Dr. Tobias Egner on "Sequential Control" or the dynamic trial to trial changes that take place throughout control-based behavior
Jim Zhang
PhD student at Duke University working with Dr. Tobias Egner on how subjective experiences arise from neural activity, the application of stimulation (TMS) to improve semantic memory in MCI adults, and the influence of episodic memory on cognitive control levels.
Ken Roberts
Lab manager at Duke University working with Dr. Marty Woldorff to apply emerging methodological techniques to investigate the neural basis of cognitive processes.
Lucas Bellaiche
PhD student at Duke University working with Dr. Kevin LaBar on interdisciplinary research avenues at the intersection of creativity and emotion.
Xinhao Wang
PhD student at Duke University working with Dr. Roberto Cabeza on verbal insights using functional magnetic resonance imaging data, hoping to investigate the role of hippocampus and its associated networks.