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Professor Holly A. Taylor, Ph.D.
Lab Director; Director of the Graduate Program

Holly received her Bachelor's degree in mathematics from Dartmouth College in 1987, her Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1992, and has been a faculty member at Tufts since 1994. In addition to her work, she enjoys running road races, hiking, and spending time with her family.



A.Reyyan Bilge, M.S.
Doctoral Student

Reyyan received her Bachelor's degree in psychology from Istanbul Bilgi University in Turkey in 2002, and her M.S. in experimental cognition from Tufts University in 2006. Here at Tufts she studies spatial cognition, memory for orientations and perspectives, spatial updating processes (e.g., nested environments), and navigation. Outside of her work here, Reyyan also enjoys reading, movies, spending time with family and friends, and traveling, especially going back to Turkey :)


Tad T. Brunye, Ph.D.
Adjunct Professor

Tad Brunye received his Ph.D. in experimental cognition from Tufts University in May, 2007. He presently is a cognitive psychologist for the U.S. Army Research, Development, and Engineering Command (RDECOM) in Natick, MA, and an Adjunct Professor here in the department of psychology. He studies spatial memory, working memory, spatial language and discourse comprehension, multimedia learning, and spatial visualizations. Tad also does quite a bit of work with the design and development of training and educational technologies. Outside of his work, Tad enjoys traveling, skiing, movies, and web design.


Caroline R. Mahoney, Ph.D.
Visiting Scholar

Caroline received her Ph.D. in experimental cognition from Tufts University. She presently is a cognitive psychologist for the U.S. Army Research, Development, and Engineering Command (RDECOM) in Natick, MA, and a Visiting Scholar here in our lab. Caroline studies dietary effects on cognitive and physical performance, and spatial memory.


Undergraduate Research Assistants:

Lauren Kaplan
Daniel Kaufman
Karine Manukyan
Benji Meller
Claire Oppenheim
Mina Ratkalkar
Elyse Rosenberg
Melissa Pergakis (
Honor's Thesis; Orientation and Perspective Dependence in Memory)
Johnna Swartz (
Honor's Thesis; Temporal Event Indexing, Part II)
Daniel Wong


 

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