Doctoral Candidate, Department of Cognitive
Sciences, University of California, Irvine
- Advisor: Jon Sprouse
- Ph.D., Psychology, (expected graduation date: 2014)
- M.A., Psychology, June 2010
- Thesis: Sensitivity of the gamma band auditory
steady state response to linguistic features of a stimulus.
Department of Linguistics,
University of California, Santa Cruz
- Advisor: Jaye Padgett
- M.A., Linguistics, June 2007
- Thesis: Focus and Pitch Accent in English.
- B.A., Linguistics, June 2004
Additional Training
- Summer Institute in Cognitive Neuroscience, University
of California, Santa Barbara, Summer 2009
- Two-week seminar in cognitive neuroscience
research; concurrent training in imaging techniques.
- 12th annual EEGLAB workshop, University of California, San Diego, Nov 2010
- Four-day workshop in EEG analysis techniques using EEGLAB
Technical Skills
- Programs & Statistical Packages
- Fluent in: Matlab, FieldTrip, Latex, Presentation,
Praat
- Comfortable with: EEGLAB, Unix, PERL, HTML, R,
Winbugs
- EEG/ERP Equipment
- ASA-Lab EEG/ERP system 128-channel sponge-based
HydroCel Geodesic sensor net (EGI) 32-channel Waveguard
electrode cap (ANT)Cedrus StimTracker
- Signal-processing techniques
- ICA/PCA, Wavelet analysis, Phase-coherence analysis s
Relevant Course Work
Statistical and Computational Cognitive Science
Course Work: 1 year of Mathematical Statistics including
Design of Experiments; Multivariate Time Series Analysis;
Introduction & Advanced Bayesian Cognitive
Modeling. Computational Course Work: Computational Methods:
MATLAB; Experiments in MATLAB; Computational Methods in
Language Science Research (in PERL). Cognitive Science Course
Work: Learning, Memory and Knowledge Organization;
Decision-Making and Problem
Solving. Psycholinguistic/Neurolinguistic Course Work:
Sentence Processing; Experimental Syntax; Lexical Access;
Semantic Organization in the Brain; Neuroscience of Language.