Congratulations to Our Newest PhDs!

The Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences is proud to announce ten graduates who successfully completed the PhD program and defended their dissertations in the 2024-2025 academic year.

Robust and Generalizable Representations in the Hippocampus
Hung-Tu Chen

Gaze in Context: Individual and Group Differences in Real-World Visual Attention
Amanda Haskins

Psychophysical and Pharmacological Models of Visual Hallucination
Nathan Heller

Neural Patterns Reflect Semantic Representations in Novice Sign Language Learners
Megan Hillis

Building Blocks of Modal Thought Across Species and Development
Catherine Holland

Investigating the Human Face Processing Network: Insights from Acquired Prosopagnosia and Hyperfamiliarity for Faces
Marie-Luise Kieseler

Behavioral and Neural Effects of Distributing Visual Attention Across Location and Feature Space
Mert Ozkan

Behavioral and Neural Evidence for Perceptual Inference of Position
Sharif Saleki

Behavioral and Neural Microstructures of Dynamic Cue-Motivated Behaviors
Erica Townsend

The Effect of the Social Environment on Individuals’ Friendships, Beliefs, and Well-Being
Christopher Welker

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Lisa D. Aubrey