Graduate Students
![]() | Rachel Aaron Graduate Student | Email (615) 322-5588 428 Wilson Hall |
Faculty Advisor: Sohee Park Clinical Science |
![]() | Charissa Andreotti Graduate Student | Email Lab Website (615)-343-8720 Hobbs 310 |
Faculty Advisor: Bruce Compas Clinical Science attention, stress, coping, emotion regulation, executive function, cortisol |
![]() | Thomas Armstrong Graduate Student | Email Website (615) 322-5527 313 Wilson Hall |
Faculty Advisor: Bunmi Olatunji Clinical Science |
![]() | Adrienne H. Arrindell Graduate Student | Email (615) 343-1486 311 Wilson Hall |
Faculty Advisor: David Schlundt Clinical Science |
![]() | Michele Athay Graduate Student | Email Lab Website |
Faculty Advisor: Leonard Bickman Quantitative Methods |
![]() | Lewis Baker Graduate Student | Email Lab Website Hobbs 207 |
Faculty Advisor: Daniel Levin Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience Interested in perspective taking, perception of agency & cognitive film theory. |
![]() | Pooja Balaram Graduate Student | Email (615) 322-5522 312 Wilson Hall |
Faculty Advisor: Jon Kaas Neuroscience |
| Sara Beck Graduate Student | Faculty Advisor: John Rieser Music Perception/Cognition | ||
![]() | Heather Bemis Graduate Student | Email Lab Website 615-343-8720 Hobbs 310 |
Faculty Advisor: Bruce Compas Clinical Science |
![]() | Taylor Benson Graduate Student | Email (615) 343-1486 311 Wilson Hall |
Faculty Advisor: Sohee Park Clinical Science |
| Alex Bettis Graduate Student | |||
![]() | Mustafa Bilge Graduate Student | Email (615) 343-4229 420 Wilson Hall |
Faculty Advisor: Geoffrey Woodman Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience |
![]() | Patrick Bissett Graduate Student | Email Lab Website 2489531611 633 Wilson Hall |
Faculty Advisor: Gordon Logan Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience |
| Jonathan Cayce Graduate Student | Faculty Advisor: Anna Roe Interdisciplinary | ||
![]() | Christina Cerkevich Graduate Student | Email (615) 343-4883 604 Wilson Hall |
Faculty Advisor: Jon Kaas Neuroscience Studying the structure and function of sensory systems using a variety anatomical and fucntional techniques |
![]() | Xiaoli Chen Graduate Student | Email (615) 322-4286 415 Wilson Hall |
Faculty Advisor: Timothy McNamara Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience |
![]() | Kao-Wei Chua Graduate Student | Lab Website |
Faculty Advisor: Isabel Gauthier Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience |
![]() | Michele A. Cox Graduate Student | Email Lab Website Website 615-343-6970 309 Wilson Hall |
Faculty Advisor: Alexander Maier Neuroscience Neurological Basis of Visual Perception |
| Nathan Dankner Graduate Student | Faculty Advisor: Elisabeth Dykens Clinical Science | ||
![]() | Leandra Desjardins Graduate Student | Email Lab Website |
Faculty Advisor: Bruce Compas Clinical Science |
![]() | Kacie Dougherty Graduate Student | Email Lab Website 615-322-5527 313 Wilson Hall |
Faculty Advisor: Alexander Maier Neuroscience |
![]() | Ayzit Doydum Graduate Student | Email Lab Website Hobbs 203 |
Faculty Advisor: Bruce McCandliss Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience |
![]() | Madeleine Dunn Graduate Student | Faculty Advisor: Bruce Compas Clinical Science | |
| Erin Edminston Graduate Student | |||
![]() | Aysu Erdemir Graduate Student | Email Website |
Faculty Advisor: John Rieser Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience |
![]() | Lindsay Downs Evans Graduate Student | Faculty Advisor: Judy Garber Clinical Science | |
![]() | Qianqian Fan Graduate Student | (615) 343-1486 311 Wilson Hall |
Faculty Advisor: Bunmi Olatunji Clinical Science |
| Reuben Fan Graduate Student | Email Lab Website (615) 322-5549 006 Wilson Hall |
Faculty Advisor: Anna Roe Interdisciplinary | |
![]() | Anat Fintzi Graduate Student | Email Lab Website 615-936-8020 634 Wilson Hall |
Faculty Advisor: Rene Marois Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience |
| Jennifer Foss-Feig Graduate Student | Clinical Science sensory and perceptual processing and integration in autism spectrum disorders | ||
| Sarah Frankel Graduate Student | Faculty Advisor: Judy Garber Clinical Science | ||
![]() | Emily R. Fyfe Graduate Student | Email 218 Hobbs |
Faculty Advisor: Bethany Rittle-Johnson Developmental Science |
![]() | Catherine Gallerani Graduate Student | Faculty Advisor: Judy Garber Clinical Science | |
![]() | Dipanwita Ghose Graduate Student | Email Lab Website 615-936-7104 Medical research Building 3 , Suite 7110 |
Faculty Advisor: Mark Wallace Neuroscience Multisensory information processing by the brain |
| David C Godlove Graduate Student | Email Website |
Faculty Advisor: Jeffrey Schall Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience Interdisciplinary I study mechanics and executive control in the ocular motor system. | |
![]() | Franklin Godwin Graduate Student | Email (615) 322-5594 Wilson Hall |
Faculty Advisor: Rene Marois Neuroscience |
| Chang Gu Graduate Student | Faculty Advisor: Bruce McCandliss Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience | ||
![]() | Suk Won Han Graduate Student | Email Website (615) 322-5596 517 Wilson Hall |
Faculty Advisor: Rene Marois Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience |
![]() | Qiliang He Graduate Student | Email Lab Website 615-638-2664 415D Wilson Hall |
Faculty Advisor: Timothy McNamara Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience |
![]() | Allan (A.J.) Heritage Graduate Student | Email Lab Website (615) 343-7614 605 Wilson Hall |
Faculty Advisor: Geoffrey Woodman Faculty Advisor: David Zald Clinical Science Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience My current research is focusing on individual differences in desire for and liking of reward as they relate to basic cognitive processes and behavioral performance. |
![]() | Jane Hirtle Graduate Student | Faculty Advisor: Amy Needham Developmental Science | |
![]() | Alicia Hymel Graduate Student | Faculty Advisor: Daniel Levin Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience | |
| Walter Jermakowicz Graduate Student | Faculty Advisor: Vivien Casagrande Interdisciplinary | ||
![]() | Yaoguang Jiang Graduate Student | Email (615) 343-4531 413 Wilson Hall |
Faculty Advisor: Vivien Casagrande Neuroscience |
![]() | Loran Kelly Graduate Student | Email (615) 322-5588 428 Wilson Hall |
Faculty Advisor: David Schlundt Clinical Science |
![]() | Joseph Kim Graduate Student | Email Lab Website (615) 343-7614 605 Wilson Hall |
Faculty Advisor: David Zald Clinical Science Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience |
![]() | Namsoo Kim Graduate Student | (615) 322-5540 402 Wilson Hall |
Faculty Advisor: Geoffrey Woodman Neuroscience |
| Katy Korelitz Graduate Student | Email 615-601-1326 314 Hobbs |
Faculty Advisor: Judy Garber Clinical Science | |
| Andriy V. Koval Graduate Student | Email Website 302 Hobbs |
Faculty Advisor: Joe Rodgers Quantitative Methods modeling interface design, visual statistics, graphical analysis in R | |
| James Kragel Graduate Student | Faculty Advisor: Brandon Ally Interdisciplinary | ||
![]() | Kelsey Laird Graduate Student | Faculty Advisor: Lynn Walker Clinical Science | |
![]() | Miriam Lense Graduate Student | Email Lab Website Website |
Faculty Advisor: Elisabeth Dykens Clinical Science |
![]() | Keji Li Graduate Student | Email Lab Website Website (615) 343-4531 413 Wilson Hall |
Faculty Advisor: Vivien Casagrande Neuroscience Early Visual Processing, pulvinar and feedback in V1 |
![]() | Margarita Lorence Graduate Student | Email (615) 343-6970 309 Wilson Hall |
Faculty Advisor: David Schlundt Clinical Science |
| Roan Marion Graduate Student | Faculty Advisor: Vivien Casagrande Interdisciplinary | ||
| Katherine McEldoon Graduate Student | Email Lab Website Website |
Faculty Advisor: Bethany Rittle-Johnson Developmental Science Development of mathematical reasoning, cognitively-guided instructional techniques | |
| Maureen McHugo Graduate Student | Email (615) 343-4531 413 Wilson Hall |
Faculty Advisor: David Zald Interdisciplinary | |
![]() | Daniel Miller Graduate Student | Faculty Advisor: Jon Kaas Neuroscience | |
![]() | Liane Moneta-Koehler Graduate Student | Email Lab Website |
Faculty Advisor: Bruce McCandliss Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience |
| Doug Morse Graduate Student | Faculty Advisor: John Rieser Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience | ||
![]() | Neal W Morton Graduate Student | Email Lab Website (615) 322-5595 516 Wilson Hall |
Faculty Advisor: Sean Polyn Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience |
| Lexa Murphy Graduate Student | Email Hobbs 307A |
Clinical Science I am interested in parent-child communication in families affected by childhood cancer | |
| Michael C. Nelson Predoctoral Student Institute of Education Sciences Predoctoral Fellow | Email Website |
Faculty Advisor: David Cordray Quantitative Methods Interdisciplinary Employing diverse methods (IRT, HLM) to assess intervention fidelity. Optimizing research designs for RCTs. | |
| Ngoc-Quynh Nguyen Graduate Student | Faculty Advisor: Bahr Weiss Clinical Science | ||
| Barbara O' Brien Graduate Student | Email (615) 322-5596 517 Wilson Hall |
Faculty Advisor: Jon Kaas Interdisciplinary | |
![]() | Katherine O'Doherty | Email 417 Hobbs |
Faculty Advisor: Georgene Troseth Developmental Science |
| Maria Osina Graduate Student | Faculty Advisor: Megan Saylor Developmental Science | ||
![]() | Hyunyoung Park Graduate Student | Email 429 Wilson Hall |
Faculty Advisor: Geoffrey Woodman Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience |
![]() | Young Eun Park Graduate Student | Lab Website 517 Wilson Hall |
Faculty Advisor: Frank Tong Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience |
| Corinne Perkins Graduate Student | Faculty Advisor: Leonard Bickman Quantitative Methods | ||
![]() | Joel Peterman Graduate Student | Email (615) 343-7614 605 Wilson Hall |
Faculty Advisor: Sohee Park Clinical Science |
![]() | Sonia Poltoratski Graduate Student | Lab Website Website |
Faculty Advisor: Frank Tong Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience |
| Jennifer Potts Graduate Student | Faculty Advisor: Bruce Compas Clinical Science | ||
![]() | Braden Purcell Graduate Student | Email Lab Website Website (513) 309-3830 516 Wilson Hall |
Faculty Advisor: Thomas Palmeri Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience I use computational modeling and single-unit recordings in non-human primates to study neural mechanisms of visual attention and decision making. |
![]() | Robert Reinhart Graduate Student | Email Lab Website (615) 322-5540 402 Wilson Hall |
Faculty Advisor: Geoffrey Woodman Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience |
| Michelle Reising Graduate Student | Faculty Advisor: Bruce Compas Clinical Science | ||
| Kristen Robinson Graduate Student | Faculty Advisor: Bruce Compas Clinical Science | ||
![]() | Emily Rockoff Graduate Student | Email 615-322-5548 404 Wilson Hall |
Faculty Advisor: Jon Kaas Neuroscience |
![]() | Kathryn Roeder Graduate Student | Faculty Advisor: David Cole Clinical Science | |
| Colleen Russo Graduate Student | Email Lab Website 417 Hobbs |
Faculty Advisor: Georgene Troseth Developmental Science | |
![]() | Katie Ryan Graduate Student | Email Lab Website 615-936-8033 226 Wilson Hall |
Faculty Advisor: Isabel Gauthier Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience face recognition, individual differences, expertise |
| Silvia Samanez Larkin Graduate Student | Email (615) 343-0056 314 Hobbs |
Faculty Advisor: Judy Garber Clinical Science Emotion Regulation, Coping, Executive Function, Anxiety and Depression in Children and Adolescents | |
| Eva Sawyer Graduate Student | Faculty Advisor: Jon Kaas Interdisciplinary | ||
| Grace Shelby Graduate Student | Faculty Advisor: Lynn Walker Clinical Science | ||
![]() | Jianhong Shen Graduate Student | Email Lab Website Website 615-322-5596 517 Wilson Hall |
Faculty Advisor: Thomas Palmeri Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience I am currently most interested in face perception and expertise related work. |
| Katherine Shepard Graduate Student | Faculty Advisor: Kathleen Hoover-Dempsey Developmental Science | ||
![]() | Amanda Sherman Graduate Student | Email Lab Website (615) 936-2747 |
Faculty Advisor: Lynn Walker Clinical Science |
| Carolyn Shivers Graduate Student | Faculty Advisor: Elisabeth Dykens Developmental Science | ||
![]() | Keneisha R. Sinclair Graduate Student | Email Lab Website |
Faculty Advisor: David Cole Clinical Science |
| Stijn Smeets Graduate Student | Faculty Advisor: David Lubinski Quantitative Methods | ||
![]() | Kristy Snyder Graduate Student | Email Lab Website Website (615) 322-1795 631 Wilson Hall |
Faculty Advisor: Gordon Logan Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience |
| Evan Sommer Graduate Student | Faculty Advisor: David Cordray Quantitative Methods | ||
| Gillian Starkey Graduate Student | Lab Website |
Faculty Advisor: Bruce McCandliss Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience | |
| Cong Tran Graduate Student | Faculty Advisor: Bahr Weiss Clinical Science | ||
| Nam Tran Graduate Student | Faculty Advisor: Bahr Weiss Clinical Science | ||
![]() | Ana Beth Van Gulick Graduate Student | Email Lab Website Website (615) 936-8033 226 Wilson Hall |
Faculty Advisor: Isabel Gauthier Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience Research Interests: Object recognition and categorization, Perceptual expertise, Learning and memory, Perception and cognition interaction, Methods: Psychophysics and neuroimaging |
![]() | Maria Vazquez Graduate Student | Email Website 320 Hobbs |
Faculty Advisor: Megan Saylor Developmental Science |
| Jennifer Vega Graduate Student | |||
![]() | Megan Viar-Paxton Graduate Student | Email Lab Website (615) 322-5522 312 Wilson Hall |
Faculty Advisor: Bunmi Olatunji Clinical Science |
![]() | Kelly Haker Watson Graduate Student | Email Lab Website 615-322-6613 311 Hobbs |
Faculty Advisor: Bruce Compas Clinical Science coping, emotion regulation, stress, socialization, temperament, executive function, parent-child interaction, parental depression |
| Sarah Wiesen Graduate Student | Email Lab Website 201 Hobbes |
Faculty Advisor: Amy Needham Developmental Science | |
![]() | Melonie Williams Graduate Student | Email Lab Website (615) 343-9492 604 Wilson Hall |
Faculty Advisor: Geoffrey Woodman Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience I am interested in the visual working memory system and how we process and maintain object information. I am also interested in understanding the relationship between working memory and visual selection. |
| Jeremy Winberry Graduate Student | Email Lab Website (615) 322-5549 |
Faculty Advisor: Anna Roe Neuroscience Optical Imaging of Tactile Perception | |
| Janet Yarboi Graduate Student | Email Lab Website Hobbs 310 |
Faculty Advisor: Bruce Compas Clinical Science | |
![]() | Jennifer Yih Graduate Student | Email Website Hobbs 207 |
Faculty Advisor: Craig Smith Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience Quantitative Methods I am interested in how people experience and manage their emotion in their everyday lives. |
| Rachel Zelkowitz Graduate Student | Faculty Advisor: David Cole Clinical Science |






























































