Postdoctoral Researchers

Ph.D. Psychology, University of Toronto (2024)

M.A., Psychology, University of Toronto (2019)

B.S. Psychology, University of California, Davis (2015)

Nichole received her B.S. in Psychology at the University of California, Davis where she worked with Dr. Arne Ekstrom studying spatial cognition. After graduating, she spent three years working as the lab manager/junior speciailist in Dr. Charan Ranganath's Dynamic Memory Lab where she studied various aspects of episodic memory and collaborated on projects investigating temporal memory and schemas as well as cognitive maps and decision-making. She began graduate school in 2018 at the University of Toronto under co-supervision from Dr. Morgan Barense and Dr. Morris Moscovitch. She received her M.A. in 2019 and her Ph.D. in 2024. Her graduate work investigated hippocampal gradients of autocorrelation and how they are related to behavior and memory dysfunction. Now as a postdoctoral scholar, she aims to continue using her autocorrelation method to investigate how the brain processes complex, naturalistic events and to investigate how event boundaries structure our memory at retrieval. Outside of work Nichole spends her time doing yoga, playing volleyball, cooking elaborate meals, and exploring new bars and restaurants in St. Louis. She also occasionally convinces Adi to accompany her on random adventures to the car wash and to meet with strangers from Facebook marketplace.

Ph.D. Cognitive/Human Factors, Kansas State University (2021)

M.S. Experimental Psychology, Kansas State University (2019)

B.S. Psychology, Mississippi State University (2015)

Maverick is a postdoctoral scholar in the lab. He is interested in studying how we make sense of the world, how our understanding of the world influences what we attend to, perceive, and later remember, and how these processes change across the lifespan. Maverick enjoys watching documentaries, learning Python and R, fishing, drinking coffee, and eating good food.

Ph.D. Psychology (Integrative Neuroscience), University of Chicago (2024)

M.S., Biomedical Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University (2019)

Hayoung is a cognitive neuroscientist and a postdoctoral research fellow at the Center for Theoretical and Computational Neuroscience. Her work combines functional magnetic resonance imaging, naturalistic behavioral experiments, and computational modeling to understand the neural and computational mechanisms of higher-order cognition in humans. At WashU, Hayoung is working with Jeff and ShiNung toward modeling higher-order cognition and multiscale neural dynamics. Outside the lab, you can find Hayoung spending time in Forest Park and exploring St. Louis!

Postdoctoral Scholar, University of California, Davis (2021-2023)
Ph.D. Cognitive Psychology, Johns Hopkins University (2021)
M.A. Cognitive Psychology, Johns Hopkins University (2018)
M.S. Electrical & Computer Engineering, North Carolina State University (2016)
M.S. Physics, BITS-Pilani, India (2013)
B.E. Electronics & Communications Engineering, BITS-Pilani, India (2013)

If you are reading this after Nichole’s bio, this is the said Adi! If not, well, he’s still Adi anyway. Adi is interested in understanding how events are represented in the mind and the brain. During graduate school at Johns Hopkins where he trained as a vision scientist, Adi worked with Dr. Jon Flombaum on how we visually perceive and process time. After his PhD, he spent 2 years working with Dr. John Henderson at University of California, Davis, studying how people process spatiotemporal continuities when viewing naturalistic movies. During this time, he became interested in how we think about event representations. He now works with both Jeff and Zach to study this question. Adi loves to chat about event representations and all things cognition. If you happen to spot him at a conference, feel free to go say hi! Outside of work, Adi spends his time biking, walking, cooking, and thinking about how to buy his next guitar. He recently went to the Pacific Northwest for a short trip and is fully convinced that he now has a new personality and outlook towards life. Whatever makes him happy!