Daphne Bavelier

VITAL STATS:
Phone: 585-275-0695 (for main lab)
Office: Meliora 403
E-mail: daphne@bcs.rochester.edu

See Curriculum vitae for more information

Ashley Anderson

POSITION:
Ph.D candidate (Sept. '06-present)

EDUCATION:
B.S. Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University (2006)

VITAL STATS:
Phone: 585-275-0751
Office: Meliora 408
E-mail: aanderson@bcs.rochester.edu

INTERESTS:
Work- brain plasticity, hemispheric differences, vision
Nonwork- soccer, baseball, Star Wars, world religions, travelling

Elizabeth Hirshorn

POSITION:
Ph.D. Candidate (Sept 05 - Present)

EDUCATION:
B.A. Cognitive Science and Spanish, Wellesley College (2003)

VITAL STATS:
Phone: 585-275-3075
Office: Meliora 409
E-mail: ehirshorn@bcs.rochester.edu

INTERESTS:
Work: I am interested in how early language experience affects brain plasticity and reading ability in the deaf . I am also interested in how deafness may lead to differences in short term memory mechanisms.
Non-Work: Learning languages and keeping up with the ones I know, fiddle, bbq, Philadelphia Eagles, traveling and visiting friends in interesting places.

FUTURE GOALS:
I hope that my research will lead to improved techniques for
attaining high levels of literacy in the deaf.

Ruyuan Zhang

POSITION:
Ph.D. Candidate (Sept 10 - Present)

EDUCATION:
XXXXX

VITAL STATS:
Phone: XXX
Office: XXXX
E-mail: XXXXX

INTERESTS:
XXX

FUTURE GOALS:
XXX

More information coming soon

Julia Föecker

POSITION:
Post-Doctoral Fellow (Sept 2010 - Present)

EDUCATION:
Ph.D.: University of Hamburg (2010)
Master Equivalent Degree (Psychology):
University of Giessen (2006)

VITAL STATS:
Phone: 585-275-0695
Office: 404 Meliora Hall
E-mail: jfoecker@bcs.rochester.edu

INTERESTS:
Work: neural-plasticity, attentional brain networks, multisensory processing, fundamental visual functions, action video game training.
Non-Work: travelling, art, theatre, cinema, yoga, swimming.

Indu Vedamurthy

POSITION:
Post-Doctoral Fellow (XXX - Present)

EDUCATION:
XXXXX

VITAL STATS:
Phone: XXX
Office: XXXX
E-mail: XXXXX

INTERESTS:
XXX

FUTURE GOALS:
XXX

More information coming soon

Peter Hauser

POSITION:
Collaborating Researcher
Clinical Neuropsychologist
Assistant Professor of Psychology
College of Liberal Arts
Rochester Institute of Technology

EDUCATION:
B.A. Philosophy and Psychology, Central Connecticut State University M.A.
American Sign Language Linguistics, Gallaudet University
M.A. Psychology, Gallaudet University
Ph.D. Clinical Psychology, Gallaudet University
Post Doc: University of Rochester Medical Center, Departments of Neurology
and Psychiatry. Neuropsychology fellowship

VITAL STATS:
TTY/FAX: 585-475-4556
E-mail: hauser@mail.rit.edu

INTERESTS:
Neuropsychological assessment of language and memory in Deaf children and
adults and sign language neurolinguistics.

FUTURE GOALS:
Complete a study in sign language neurolinguistics that Daphne, Ted, and
Elissa cannot criticize! Develop memory and language neuropsychological
measures that can be used with Deaf patients.

Riccardo Pedersini

POSITION:
Post-Doctoral Fellow (XXX - Present)

EDUCATION:
XXXXX

VITAL STATS:
Phone: XXX
Office: XXXX
E-mail: XXXXX

INTERESTS:
XXX

FUTURE GOALS:
XXX

More information coming soon

POSITION:
Research Assistant

EDUCATION:
BA in Religion (2007)
Temple University

VITAL STATS:
Office: Meliora 133
E-mail: eklobusicky@bcs.rochester.edu

INTERESTS:
Work - Perception (particularly in synaesthesia), plasticity, goal-directed action, development, pathologies of mind and brain, social processing, memory.
Non-work - Cooking, literature, world religions, politics, computer programming.

FUTURE GOALS:
Graduate school in Cognitive Neuroscience.

POSITION:
Research Assistant

EDUCATION:
BS in Neuroscience
University of Rochester (2009)

VITAL STATS:
Office: Meliora 133G
E-mail: kmedford@bcs.rochester.edu

INTERESTS:
Work - Visual attention in video game players and the effects of video games on cognitive aging.
Non-work - Running, cooking, organizing the Stem Cell Research Fundraiser at the University of Rochester

FUTURE GOALS:
Gain further research experience while applying to graduate schools next year.

POSITION:
Research Assistant

EDUCATION:
BA in Psychology
Colgate University (2010)

VITAL STATS:
Office: Meliora 133L
E-mail: tjacques@bcs.rochester.edu

INTERESTS:
Work - Mathematic ability in videogame players, expert performance, visual perception, multisensory integration

FUTURE GOALS:
Gain research experience in Rochester while I investigate what sort of graduate program best suits my research interests.

Bjorn Hubert-Wallander
Bjorn is now a graduate student at the University of Washington.

Renjie Li
Renjie is currently working at Blizzard Entertainment.

Angela Hauser
Angela is now working at RIT as a full-time sign language interpreter for the deaf.

Matt Dye
Matt is now a faculty member in Speech and Hearing Sciences at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is continuing his studies of cross-modal plasticity in deaf children and running the American Sign Language program.

Adam Katz
Adam is now a Post-Baccalaureate Fellow at the National Institute of Mental Health in the Laboratory for Behavioral Neuroscience under Jacqueline Crawley.

Mike Sugarman
Mike is working as a Special Education Teacher at the New England Center for Children.

MaryJo Maciejewski

Rebecca Achtman
Rebecca is now an assistant professor in the Department of Psychology at Nazareth College.

David Feder

C. Shawn Green
Shawn is now a post-doctoral associate in the Kersten Computational Vision Lab at the University of Minnesota.

Nina Fernandez
Nina is now a graduate student in Speech-Language Pathology at Boston University.

Mithun Mukherjee
Mithun is working as a technology licensing associate at the Office of Technology Transfer at the University of Rochester Medical Center. He is also a part-time student at the Simon School of Business.

Arnaud Guidon
Arnaud is a Ph.D. student in the Biomedical Engineering program at Duke University. He is working in Allen Song's laboratory at the Brain Imaging and Analysis Center on developing acquisition methods for enhancing spatial and temporal resolution of functional MRI.

Shannon Bailey
Shannon is a game programmer at Bethesda Softworks in Rockville, MD.

Matt Hall
Matt is currently a Ph.D candidate at the University of California at San Diego.

Raylene Harris
Raylene is an assistant professor in the department of psychology at Gallaudet University.

Jennifer Vannest
Jennifer is now a research assistant professor in the Division of Neurology and Pediatric Brain Imaging Research Program at Cincinatti Children's Hospital Medical Center.

Aparna Sapre
Aparna now works as a Technical Manager at Optra systems, located in Pune, India. She manages the development of medical imaging applications.

Aaron J. Newman
Aaron is now an associate professor of cognitive neuroscience and the director of the Neurocognitive Imaging Laboratory at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Julie Cohen
Julie is a Ph.D. candidate in the Cognitive Developmental Neuroimaging Lab at the Institute of Child Development at the University of Minnesota.

Dave McColgin
Dave earned his B.A. in BCS in 2003. He went on to study Human-Computer Interaction at Georgia Tech and now researches and designs tools for information visualization at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. He went from 96 days of sunshine to 300 and still gets better skiing.

Mrim Boutla
Mrim is now an MBA career coach at the Kelley School of Business, Indiana University.

France Ginchereau
Working at the Episcopal Center for Children in Washington, DC.

Jutta VanStean

Keith Schneider
Keith works at the Rochester Center for Brain Imaging in Rochester, NY.

Tony Monacelli
In his own words: I am currently working at the U of R Medical Center in Charles Duffy's Visual Orientation Laboratory, examining spatial disorientation in aging and Alzheimer's Disease. This fall I will begin graduate school in the U of R's doctoral program in clinical psychology, working with Dante Cicchetti.

Andrea Tomann

Craig Brozinsky
Craig is currently working toward a PhD in UCDavis's Psychology Program, investigating human memory through brain imaging and patient work.

Jason Proksch

Robert Baldwin

Chloe Hutton
Chloe is a research fellow in the physics group at the Wellcome Department of Imaging Neuroscience in London. She is working on methods for correcting distortions in functional imaging data, and on measurements of cortical anatomy in structural MRI.

Teresa Mitchell
Teresa is now a faculty member at the University of Massachusetts Medical School's Shriver Center in Waltham, Massachusetts where she is studying the development of visual perception in deaf infants, children, and adults. More info...