Director

Thackery Brown, Ph.D.

Thackery received his Ph.D. in Psychology from Boston University under the mentorship of Dr. Chantal Stern, and completed his postdoctoral training at Stanford University with Dr. Anthony Wagner. He is an Assistant Professor in the School of Psychology at Georgia Institute of Technology, a member of the Center for Advanced Brain Imaging (CABI) and Georgia Tech Neuroscience, and a Network Scholar of The MacArthur Foundation Research Network on Law and Neuroscience.

 

 

 

Post-doctoral Fellows

Qiliang He, Ph.D.

  • qiliang.he at psych.gatech.edu

Graduate Students

Jancy Liu, M.S.

Doctoral Candidate in Economics (Economics)

  • jancyll at gatech.edu

Paulina Maxim, B.S.

Doctoral Candidate in Cognition and Brain Science (Psychology)

  • paulina.maxim at gatech.edu

Yiren Ren, M.S.

Master’s thesis: Cross-modal schema effect of music pairing on shape sequence acquisition

Doctoral Candidate in Cognition and Brain Science (Psychology)

  • yiren at gatech.edu

Research Assistants

Rida Ahmed – Psychology

  • rahmed61 at gatech.edu

Zoe Altizer – Neuroscience

  • zaltizer at gatech.edu

Elizabeth Beveridge – Neuroscience

  • ebeveridge at gatech.edu

Katie Davis – Architecture

  • kdavis322 at gatech.edu

Sydney DeFelice – Neuroscience

  • sdefelice3 at gatech.edu

Jyotleen DeWal – Neuroscience

  • jdewal3 at gatech.edu

Megan Kemp – Psychology

  • mkemp at gatech.edu

Julia Milner – Neuroscience @ St. Mary’s College of MD

  • jpmilner at smcm.edu

Kelsey Mo – Psychology

  • kmo30 at gatech.edu

Rishi Nair – Neuroscience

  • rnair66 at gatech.edu

Lucy Niu – Neuroscience

  • lniu9 at gatech.edu

Felipe Oliveira – Neuroscience

  • foliveira8 at gatech.edu

Avery Pope – Neuroscience

  • averypope at gatech.edu

Ashley Salen – Psychology

  • asalen at gatech.edu

Sharnitha Sudhaher – Neuroscience

  • ssudhaher3 at gatech.edu

Kevin Thompson – Neuroscience

  • kthompson303 at gatech.edu

Lane Vacala – Biological Sciences

  • lvacala3 at gatech.edu

Vanessa Vargas – Neuroscience

  • vvargas at gatech.edu

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Some of the crew – Fall 2021

Lab Alumni

Sarah Redmond – Neuroscience

Sharon Flores – Neuroscience

Kayla Collins – Psychology

Lou Eschapasse – Neuroscience

Sarah Ogletree – Psychology

Anna Zagora – Neuroscience

Molina Zhang – Emory U: Neuroscience

Victoria Pfennig – Neuroscience

Rhea Nichani – Neuroscience

Senior Thesis: The Role Gender Plays in Spatial Navigation and Recall Ability

Rahul Thimmugari – Neuroscience

Senior Thesis: Gamma-frequency entrainment audiovisual 40 Hz fljcker

Maddy Hammond – Neuroscience

Derek Matthews – Biomedical Engineering

Jon Starnes, M.A.

Sarah Freeman – Neuroscience

Senior Thesis: Stress effects on the ability to learn statistical regularities about our world

Sai Nakirikanti – Neuroscience

Senior Thesis: The Role of Basal Forebrain  Degeneration and Cortisol as Biomarkers Mediating Alzheimer’s Disease Pathology: A Machine Learning Approach

Tal Ben-Yishai – Neuroscience

Senior Thesis: Characteristic Neural Firing Profiles in Different Hippocampal Subfields for Successful and Unsuccessful Memory

Andrew Han – Computer Science

Senior Thesis: The Effects of Boundary Manipulations on Navigational Abilities

Tanya Churaman – Computer Science

Senior Thesis: How Cognitive Load Difficulty Affects Cognitive Mapping and Individual Differences in Navigation

Deepika Pahari – Biochemistry

Samar Abdelmageed – Psychology

Brandon Cho – Northwestern U: Neuroscience

Sarah Goodroe – Psychology

Senior Thesis: Which Navigation Strategy is Best?  The Importance of Spatial Strategy in a Landmark-free Environment is Moderated by Sense of Direction and Prior Learning