Trent is a recent UChicago graduate with BA’s in Neuroscience and Visual Arts on the Pre-Med track. He is very interested in the overlap between the arts and neuroscience, particularly the impact that visual stimulus can have on our memories and how we interact with out environment. In his free time, Trent loves to paint, draw, and listen to music.

trentdavis(at)uchicago(dot)edu

Brady is a postdoctoral scholar in the Brain Bridge Lab interested in how we can improve memory in everyday life through encoding techniques and the creation of highly memorable stimuli. He is also interested in how symbols of all kinds (e.g., !@#$%) are stored and retrieved from memory. In his free time, Brady enjoys camping, finding new coffee shops, and taking long trips on his motorcycle.

bradyr(at)uchicago(dot)edu

Cambria is a third-year doctoral student in the Cognitive Psychology program. Before joining the Brain Bridge Lab, she majored in Biological Basis of Behavior at the University of Pennsylvania, and spent two years as a post-baccalaureate research fellow at the National Institute of Mental Health. She is broadly interested in memorability across sensory modalities, and is currently investigating the consistencies in the voices people remember and forget. Cambria loves crafting, thrifting, and checking out live music around Chicago.

crevsine(at)uchicago(dot)edu

Emma is a third-year PhD student in the Cognitive Psychology program. She graduated with a B.S. in Neuroscience from The Ohio State University in 2019 before working as a lab manager / research assistant at Vanderbilt University for two years. Emma is interested in taking advantage of multiple methods, such as drawing and EEG, to study how (and what) we forget as well as how our memory representations change over time. In her free time, she likes to read, knit, and try to make the prettiest farm in her favorite video game, Stardew Valley.

emegla(at)uchicago(dot)edu

Hannah is broadly interested in how students learn, think, and apply knowledge in novel situations. Currently, she is interested in examining (1) the memorability of gestures in STEM learning; (2) the mechanisms behind gestures that promote STEM learning using brain imaging methods.

hannahguo(at)uchicago(dot)edu

Shikang is a master student in the MAPSS program. He is a recent UAlberta graduate with honors BSc in psychology. He is interested in the process of episodic memory encoding and retrieval, particularly in the interplay between memorability and attention on subsequent episodic memory retrieval. In his free time, he enjoys painting, cooking and playing video games.

Hannah is a first-year MACSS student. She discovered her condition of aphantasia, an inability to visualize in one’s mind, during her high school years. This discovery sparked her research interest in understanding how aphantasia affects various cognitive functions, particularly memory. Her current research primarily focuses on the impact of aphantasia on visual working memory. Additionally, she is exploring the relationship between the vividness of an individual’s visual imagery and their visual working memory capabilities.

Sam is a third-year triple majoring in Psychology, Anthropology, and History. He is particularly interested in the role that the five senses have in relation to the strength of memories. In his free time, he enjoys playing adventure games, reading fantasy novels, and cooking.

Esther is a third-year majoring in Data Science and minoring in Computational Neuroscience. She enjoys exploring how the brain functions and is eager to combine psychology with the application of data science and machine learning to help better understand the human mind. This past year Esther has been interning for a pharmaceutical company based in Boston building Python functions, creating compliance reports, and making presentations to implement data science into the field of medicine. She enjoys playing soccer in her free time and exploring new restaurants and bakeries downtown.