The Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences is proud to announce five graduates who successfully completed the PhD program and defended their dissertations in the 2020-2021 academic year.
Dr. Katherine Alfred
Dissertation: "Deductive Reasoning: The Structure of Mental Models and Reasoning in Everyday Life" Adviser: Associate Professor David Kraemer
Program: Psychological and Brain Sciences
What's next: Dr. Alfred will be continuing her work with Professor Kraemer as a post-doctoral Research Associate at Dartmouth.
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Dissertation: "Building Relationships Through Dynamic Interactions"
Adviser: Assistant Professor Luke Chang
Program: Cognitive Neuroscience
What's next: Dr. Cheong is headed to Facebook in San Francisco where he will be a Quantitative UX Researcher.
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Dissertation: "Dynamic Coding of Motivationally-Relevant Information in the Rodent Nucleus Accumbens"
Adviser: Associate Professor Matthijs van der Meer
Program: Psychological and Brain Sciences
What's next: Dr. Gmaz is headed to London to work as a post-doctoral researcher in Juan Gallego's lab at Imperial College.
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Dissertation: "Characterizing Sharp-Wave Ripple Content in Response to Novel Behaviorally-Relevant Shortcuts"
Adviser: Associate Professor Matthijs van der Meer
Program: Cognitive Neuroscience
What's next: Dr. Irvine is taking some time to enjoy her two young daughters before transitioning to industry.
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Dissertation: "Behavioral and Neural Contributions to Cue-Driven Motivation"
Adviser: Associate Professor Kyle Smith
Program: Psychological and Brain Sciences
What's next: Dr. Smedley is continuing at Dartmouth as a post-doctoral Research Associate research with Professor Smith, as a as well as teaching a Dartmouth undergraduate course on learning.