Welcome to the
Spatial Cognition Laboratory
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Welcome to the Spatial Cognition Laboratory |
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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.
Tad Brunye received his Ph.D. in experimental cognition from Tufts University in May, 2007. He presently is a senior cognitive scientist for the U.S. Army Research, Development, and Engineering Command (RDECOM) in Natick, MA, and an Instructor and Visiting Scholar here in the department of psychology. He studies spatial memory, attention, working memory, spatial language and discourse comprehension, multimedia learning, educational system design, and spatial visualizations, with a particular focus on embodied cognition and mental simulation. Methods employed in his investigations include eye tracking, electromyography, functional near-infrared spectroscopy, electroencephalography, and traditional behavioral measures. In 2011, Dr. Brunye was awarded the Presidential Early Career Award, the highest honor bestowed by the U.S. government upon scientists and engineers in the early stages of their career; just as importantly, he got to meet the president!
Caroline earned a B.S. in Psychology, minor in Biology, from Armstrong Atlantic State University in 2011. As an undergrad she assisted on a wide variety of projects which ranged from clinical to cognitive in focus, but spent the majority of her junior and senior years working solely on spatial learning research. At Tufts, she is examining the influence of semantic organization on spatial memory and on metamemory of that spatial information.
Marianna received her Ph.D. in Experimental Psychology and Cognitive
Neuroscience from Tufts University in 2008, working with Professor
Holcomb on projects related to electrophysiological indices of object
perception and language comprehension. She also completed a NRSA
postdoctoral scholarship at MIT working with Professor Gabrieli on
projects related to visual word recognition, typical reading development
in children, and impaired reading development in dyslexia. Marianna is
presently a Cognitive Scientist at the U.S. Army Research, Development
and Engineering Command (RDECOM) in Natick, MA, and an instructor and
visiting scholar in the Spatial Cognition Lab.
Aaron graduated from Tufts University
in 2009 with a bachelor's in psychology,
completing an honor's thesis in Professor Bharucha's laboratory,
examining the effects of several music characteristics on induced
affective states. Here in our lab, Aaron is investigating the effects of
shifting perspectives in spatial visualizations and high arousal states
on navigation through virtual environments. He is also co-managing the
daily activities of the laboratory along with Grace Giles.
Grace recently
graduated from Middlebury College with a bachelor's in neuroscience,
working in Professor Collaer's laboratory, examining stress-induced
impairments in hippocampal-dependent cognitive tasks. Here in our lab,
Grace is investigating the acute effects of caffeine and taurine on a
range of cognitive processes such as perception, working memory, complex
decision making, and
navigation. She is also co-managing the
daily activities of the laboratory along with Aaron Gardony.
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.
Sarah received her
Bachelor’s degree in psychology from the University of New
Hampshire in 2011, where she worked on studies examining mind wandering,
attention capture and visual priming. She also worked as a research
fellow at MIT, where she worked on research using eye tracking and fMRI.
Here in the lab, she is working on projects examining the embodied basis
of spatial cognition, using technologies such as hand movement and eye
tracking.
Qi received her
Bachelor’s degree in psychology from Zhejiang University in 2005 and a
Master's degree in cognitive psychology from Southwest University,
China, in 2008. Here in Tufts, she studies spatial cognition, social
influence on spatial memory, mental simulations in spatial
understanding, and the integration of spatial and
non-spatial information. Qi enjoys movies, various kinds of music,
readings, spending time with family and friends besides her work.
Stephanie A. Gagnon (Stanford University) Recent Graduates A. Reyyan
Bilge, Ph.D. (2009) Undergraduate Research Assistants:
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Professor
Holly A. Taylor, Ph.D.
Tad Brunye,
Ph.D.
Caroline
Eastman
Marianna
D. Eddy
Aaron
Gardony
Grace
Giles
Caroline
R. Mahoney,
Ph.D.
Sarah
Tower-Richardi
Qi Wang, M.S.