Current Graduate Students
Michaela Rice, M.S. is a 5th year graduate student. She graduated from Ohio Wesleyan University. Mickey's research focuses on the relationship between anxiety and depression on prospective memory using both behavioral and neurophysiological measures.
Rice, M., Hansen, M., Thomas, M L., Davalos, D, (2024). Neural Correlates of Prospective Memory in College Students with Anxiety. Frontiers in Psychology, Psychopathology,15, 1-11. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1430373
Kailee Kriesel, B.S. is a 2nd year graduate student. She graduated from California Lutheran University. Kailee's research focuses on assessing how perception of imagined scenarios of pain is impacted in those with mild traumatic brain injury based on level of self-awareness using behavioral measures and ERP.
Lab Alumni
Kathleen Angela Willoughby-Dudley, PhD. Angie graduated in 2021 and is Associate Vice President of Research (RWE) at KJT.
Marielle Darwin, PhD. Marielle graduated in 2021 and is Clinical Research Contractor at NOOM.
Lara (Pantlin) Southard, PhD. (co-advisor Mark Prince). Lara graduated in 2019 and is Principal Research Scientist at Pearson.
Jamie Opper, PhD. (co-advisor Vicki Volbrecht). Jamie graduated in 2016 and is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at St. Cloud State University.
Jason Nomi, PhD. (co-advisor Lucy Troup). Jason graduated in 2014 and is an Assistant Researcher in the Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior at UCLA.
Barbara Banz, PhD. Barbara graduated in 2014 and is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Yale University School of Medicine.
Alana Campbell, PhD. Alana graduated in 2012 and is currently an Assistant Professor at the University of North Carolina Medical School, Department of Psychiatry.
Michael Pitts, PhD. (Co-Advisor, Jan Nerger). Michael graduated in 2007 and is currently a Professor in the Department of Psychology at Reed College.
Past Undergraduate Research Assistants & Theses Advisees
Elizabeth Andersen, PhD (formerly Elizabeth Burnette) received her B.S. from CSU in 2010 and defended her dissertation, "Convergence of aberrant electrophysiological correlates of salience, affective processing and stress reactivity in patients with schizophrenia" as part of her PhD in Neurobiology at the University of North Carolina Medical School. She is a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Scholar and she studies the neural correlates of schizophrenia in order to better understand the processes involved in illness onset.
Elizabeth recently published her first article in "Electrophysiological Correlates of Aberrant Motivated Attention and Salience Processing in Unaffected Relatives of Schizophrenia Patients," in Clinical EEG & Neuroscience.
Sarah Martinez, MS is a graduate of the Human Cognition and Neural Dynamics Lab (HCND) at Western Washington University. She studied, "The influence of kindenschema on the processing of other race faces".
Martinez, S., & Davalos, D. (2016). Investigating metacognition, cognition, and behavioral deficits of college students with acute traumatic brain injuries. Journal of American College Health, 64(5), 390-396.
Greg Ordemann, BS is a graduate student in the Institute for Neuroscience at the University of Texas in Austin. He is interested in studying cellular processes of learning and memory and the diseases that arise from abnormalities in those systems.
Ordemann, G., Opper, J., & Davalos, D. B. (2014). Prospective memory in schizophrenia: A review. Schizophrenia Research, 155 1-3, 77-89.
Savannah Regensburger, BS Savannah's research and thesis focused on Growth Mindset, Mindfulness and Neuroplasticity. She was recently admitted to the MS in Biotechnology Program at the University of California Irvine, starting Fall 2018!
Hannah Crosby, BS has assisted with research focused on cognition and psychopathology in the lab.
Davalos, D. B., Pantlin, L. & Crosby, H. (2016). Depression and executive dysfunction in young adults; Implications for therapy. Journal of Depression and Therapy, 1 (1), 18-24.
She was recently admitted in to the Master's level Positive Organizational Psychology and Evaluation program at Claremont Graduate University, starting Fall 2018.
Lisa Hirt, BS has assisted in the lab with research focused on time processing.
Hirt, L. (2017, April). A Look into Timing and Intelligence: A Exploratory Event-Related Potential Study. Oral presentation at the Celebrate Undergraduate Research and Creativity Symposium, Fort Collins, CO. She was recently admitted in to the Master's program in Modern Human Anatomy at the University of Colorado Anschutz Campus, starting Fall 2018.