Graduate Students
Boman Groff
Boman is interested in studying the neural activity underlying various aspects of executive function and different working memory manipulations. By recording hemodynamic and synchronized electrical activity in the brain through various neuroimaging modalities, Boman would like to gain insight into the different ways the contents of working memory can be cleared and how a person's ability to clear the contents of working memory may be disrupted by anxiety and/or depression. Boman's past research harnessed magnetoenchephalography (MEG) to examine the neural oscillatory activity associated with visual entrainment and to study how age impacts occipital neural dynamics in HIV-infected patients with and without cognitive impairment.
Brynn Paulsen
Brynn is interested in using both MRI and behavioral techniques to study how individuals control the contents of working memory and how that relates to individual differences in well-being. In particular, she is interested in understanding how this control in working memory may relate to reported experiences of mind-wandering and trait-level mindfulness.
Louisa Smith
Louisa’s research uses both MRI and behavioral methods to understand how individuals flexibly and adaptively engage cognitive control across different task contexts. In particular, she seeks to elucidate the cognitive and neural mechanisms underlying individual differences in cognitive flexibility.