Lab News

Cheers to yet another inspiring writing retreat! Excited to see our hard work pay off as we gear up to submit our manuscripts and share some new work soon!

Our graduate student Merve attended the 66th TeaP (Conference of Experimental Psychologists) in Regensburg, Germany! She presented her poster titled “Does Reward Induce Shifts in Learning-Guided Reactive Control?”.

In the high-pressure arena of the 3MT® competition for the Mark S. Wrighton Award on Aging, our graduate student Merve showcased her collaborative research with Dr. Julie Bugg and Dr. Todd Braver. 3MT is an academic competition where PhD students present their research to a general audience in 3 minutes. Congrats, Merve!

We recently gathered for a productive writing retreat to work on our manuscripts. Excited for more fruitful writing retreat days ahead!

We attended the Psychonomic Society’s 64th Annual Meeting in San Francisco! Our graduate students Maddie Valdez and Merve Ileri-Tayar, and our post-doc Matt Welhaf presented their work. Also, our former graduate student Jackson Colvett presented a study co-authored by undergraduate researchers Logan Wetz and Ishaan Alva.

Exciting times ahead as we welcome our two newest PhD students, Maddie and Chris, to the team. To kick off the academic year and celebrate the new faces in the lab, we hit the trails for a lab hike and a picnic. Welcome aboard, you two!

We celebrated the end of the academic year and Jackson’s graduation together! As we celebrate the achievements of this year, we are also excited about the promising opportunities that await us! P.S. We would like to thank Control and Decision Making Lab for a very competitive cornhole game!

Our graduate student Merve Ileri-Tayar successfully defended her master’s thesis titled “Between-Task Transfer of Learned Control Settings: How Far Can It Go?”. Congrats, Merve!

Our Mind, Brain, & Behavior students presented their posters at the Mind, Brain, & Behavior poster session! Amina Stern presented her poster titled “Item-Specific Control Under Perceptual Load” and Peter Ochalek presented his poster titled “Can You Pay Attention? The Influence of Explicit Expectations on Cognitive Control”. They worked on their research projects with our […]

Our undergraduate researcher Logan Wetz presented his poster titled “Transfer of Cognitive Control Settings with Response Modality as a Boundary” at the Undergraduate Research Symposium at WashU! Dr. Jackson Colvett mentored his undergraduate thesis. Great work, Logan!

Jackson Colvett successfully defended his thesis titled “Putting Attentional Control on the Map: An Investigation of Meaningful Boundaries and Context-Specific Control” and received his PhD! Dr. Colvett will continue his academic journey at Berry College as a tenure-track faculty! It was a privilege to have him in our lab and we congratulate him on his […]

Our lab was at the Psychonomic Society’s 63rd Annual Meeting! Our graduate students Jackson Colvett and Merve Ileri-Tayar presented their work. We are looking forward to Psychonomics 2023!

Look how happy we are when writing! We got together for a lab writing retreat over coffee and snacks, and worked on our manuscripts!

To kick off the new year and welcome Eldad who is a visiting researcher from Israel, we had a potluck-style lab get-together and enjoyed the great weather together!