Postdoctoral Scholars

Elizabeth E. Caldwell
E-mail: Beth.Caldwell@tufts.edu
Area: Biopsychology
Background: Ph.D., Kent State University, 2004  

I am conducting my postdoctoral research with Klaus Miczek. Our primary research is aimed at identifying neural and social factors contributing to the propensity to engage in alcohol-heightened aggression. This work involves the study of neural mechanisms responsible for alcohol-heightened aggressive behavior and other forms of escalated aggression using animal models (i.e. rats and mice). We are primarily interested in the neurotransmitters, serotonin and GABA, their receptor subtypes in corticolimbic brain areas, and we want to characterize the cellular and subcellular mechanisms in these circuits as potentially mediating the escalation to aggressive and impulsive behaviors in particularly vulnerable individuals.

My current research examines the similarities in the acoustic code for communicating emotion through human vocalizations and music. For more information, please visit the Music Cognition Lab website.

Isabel DeQuadros
E-mail: Isabel.Quadros@tufts.edu
Area: Psychopharmacology
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Noriko Hoshino
E-mail: Noriko.Hoshino@tufts.edu
Area: Neurocognition
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Mante Nieuwland
E-mail: mante@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu
Area: Cognitive Neuroscience, Psycholinguistics
Background: Ph.D., University of Amsterdam, 2007

Mante Nieuwland received his BA, MA & PhD (all cum laude) in Psychology from the University of Amsterdam. As an MA student, he studied the neuropsychological and electrophysiological correlates of sensory gating deficiency in recent-onset schizophrenia. As a PhD student with Jos van Berkum, he studied the neural correlates of semantic and referential aspects of discourse comprehension, using EEG/ERPs and fMRI neuroimaging methods. He was awarded a 2-year Rubicon grant from the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) for a post-doctoral research position with Gina Kuperberg; his current research focuses on the interplay of real-world knowledge and discourse constraints.

Representative publications:

Nieuwland, M. S. , Petersson, K. M., & Van Berkum, J. J. A. (pending revisions). On sense and reference: Examining the functional neuroanatomy of referential processing. Neuroimage.

Nieuwland, M. S., Otten, M., & Van Berkum, J. J. A. (2007). Who are you talking about? Tracking discourse-level referential processes with ERPs. The Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 19(2), 1-9.

Nieuwland, M. S., & Van Berkum, J. J. A. (2006). When peanuts fall in love: N400 evidence for the power of discourse. The Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 18(7), 1098-1111.

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