I completed my dissertation defense in May, 2014.

My dissertation committee, along with the areas of their expertise that intersect with my projects, includes:

  • Garrison Cottrell--research advisor, expertise in autoencoder neural network models and computational modeling of cognition
  • Marta Kutas--department advisor, expertise in hemispheric asymmetry and cognition
  • Steven Hillyard--expert in spatial attention, has worked in local/global processing
  • Virginia de Sa--Expert in multi-modal neural network modeling and computational models
  • Katerinal Semendeferi--Expert in local circuitry
  • Terry Jernigan--Expert in white matter connectivity