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Research Experience

GT Cognitive Motor Control Laboratory

Laboratory of Dr. Lewis Wheaton, Ph.D.

Atlanta, GA

Undergraduate Project: Developing a Model for Apraxia

  • fMRI - Evaluated the neural mechanisms of complex action representations which support the comprehension of tools in the healthy young brain

Other:

  • EEG - Examined how neural networks are affected by reduced somatosensation during action encoding

  • Eye Tracking - Evaluated gaze position as a means of understanding hierarchical action organization in advanced toolmaking

  • fMRI - Evaluated neural substrates of somatic action encoding in both healthy individuals and amputees when observing interactions between a hand or fictive amputee device and an object target

  • Eye-Tracking-electroencephalography (EEG) - Examined patterns of parietofrontal event-related potentials (ERPs) underlying the perception of complex tool-use affordances

INSEAD, Paris

Laboratory of Dr. Hilke Plassmann, Ph.D.

Paris, France

Project: Susceptibility to Marketing Actions during Pleasantness Evaluation: Insights into How Price and Health Claims Affect Flavor Processing

  • fMRI imaging and development of Voxel Based Morphometry (VBM) analysis procedure for the Plassmann lab

  • Worked in collaboration with the Ecole Normale Superieure Economic Decision-Making Group

  • Documented results in both French and English

  • Adapted my work and communication style to meet French cultural norms

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Publication resulting from my work: 

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/273314435_Individual_Differences_in_Marketing_Placebo_Effects_Evidence_from_Brain_Imaging_and_Behavioral_Experiments 

WVU Center for Neuroscience

Laboratory of Dr. Albert Berrebi, Ph.D.

Morgantown, WV

Project: Effects of Leading Marker Duration in an Auditory Gap Detection Task

  • Examined effects of the functional inactivation of brainstem neurons on the temporal processing of acoustic stimuli in the auditory midbrain

  • Surgery, perfusion, and tissue processing

Evolutionary Development

Laboratory of Dr. Todd Streelman, Ph.D.

Atlanta, GA

Project: Analyzing GAD65 Expression as an Indicator of Brain Diversity in Cichlid Ecotypes

  • Cloned and analyzed expression patterns of the GAD65 gene in different species of cichlids

  • Probe design, in-situ hybridization, imaging, and sectioning of embryos

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