Meet
the Researchers
Silvia Bunge
Ph.D.
Dr.
Bunge uses behavioral and brain imaging techniques to examine how we
control our thoughts and actions to make them consistent with our
internal goals. Her goals are to elucidate the mechanisms underlying
control processes, as well as to characterize the nature of the
contributions of the prefrontal cortex and associated brain regions to
cognitive control, in children and adults.
Kepa
Paz-Alonzo
Post-Doctoral
Scholar
kpazalonso@berkeley.edu
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Kepa
(BA '98; MA '01; PhD '04; U Basque Country) is a
post-doc at Bunge lab with a background in cognitive and developmental
psychology. His dissertation examined misinformation effects for
emotional
events in children and adults. During his previous post-doctoral
position at Dr. Gail
Goodman's lab (UCD), he worked on several memory
and emotion publications. In collaboration with Dr. Silvia Bunge and
Dr. Simona
Ghetti (UCD), he has conducted one of the first developmental
neuroimaging studies
focusing on true and false memories, and now he is heading up a new
study
examining the effects of intentional retrieval-inhibition processes in
long-term memory.
Chloe Green
Lab
Manager
BungeLabManager@gmail.com
Chloe
graduated from UC Davis, where she earned highest
honors in Psychology. Her recent research includes an investigation of
how computerized cognitive training influences children’s
ability to pay attention in academic situations. She is interested in
integrating insights regarding brain functioning
with insights into
behavior. She hopes to eventually design her own research on enhancing
intellectual capability in children and adults with learning
disabilities and
age-related cognitive decline.
Anett
Gyurak
Affiliated
Graduate
Student
Relationships
and Social Cognition Lab
agyurak@berkeley.edu
http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~agyurak/
Anett
is a 4th year graduate student in the psychology department. Her
research interests involve the interaction between executive control
and emotion regulation. She studies this questions in kids, adults, and
in patients with neurodegenerative disorders.
Anna
Luerssen
Affiliated
Graduate
Student
Relationships
and
Social Cognition Lab
anna.luerssen@gmail.com
Anna
is a first year
graduate student in the psychology department. She
is interested in studying the basic processes, manifestations, and
neural correlates of self regulation in adult romantic relationships
and in children. Toward this end, she is currently collaborating with
Bunge lab on a project examining delay of gratification in 5-8 year
olds.
Allyson
Mackey
Graduate
Student
allymackey@gmail.com
Allyson (B.S. 2006, Stanford University)
is a 3rd year Neuroscience Ph.D. student in the lab. She is
interested
in the impact of cognitive training on brain structure and function, as
well as environmental factors that alter cognitive development.
Sarah
Munro
Graduate
Student
sarah
at berkeley dot edu
Sarah,
a 2nd year PhD student in the
lab, received a BSc in Cognitive Neuroscience from Brown University in
2005. She is interested in what typical and atypical
development
can tell us about the organization of the brain. Currently, she is
studying the role of Tourette Syndrome in inhibitory control, cognitive
flexibility, reward processing, and stress
reactivity. Additionally, she is interested in examining the
efficacy of a cognitive training program that targets the neural
pathways implicated in Tourette Syndrome.
Elizabeth O'Hare
Post-Doctoral
Scholar
edohare@berkeley.edu
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Libby’s
(AB ’00, Ph.D., ’08) research interests involve
characterizing relationships between brain structure and brain function
during development. Her doctoral dissertation (UCLA) examined
the structural and functional neural correlates of verbal working
memory development in children with and without prenatal alcohol
exposure. Her current work focuses on examining the brain
bases of the development of fluid reasoning ability.
Kirstie
Whitaker
Graduate Student
kirstie.whitaker@berkeley.edu
Kirstie Whitaker (BSc in Physics, University of
Bristol, UK; MSc in Medical Physics, University of British
Columbia, Canada). She has held Commonwealth and Fulbright
scholarships. She is interested in imaging and investigating
the
structural development of the brain in childhood and
adolescence. She
can most often be found on a mountain: skiing in winter and hiking in
summer. She has taught freestyle dance for many years as a
member of
the International Dance Teachers Association.