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Kim M. Curby Assistant Professor of Psychology Ph.D., Vanderbilt University, 2006
Kim takes a visual cognitive neuroscience approach, using behavioral experiments and fMRI to investigate how experience changes perceptual processing. Her lab focuses on visual learning and the ways in which it interacts with, depends on, and influences attention, memory, and semantic knowledge. By exploring what differentiates real-world visual experts from novices, her research program aims to expand theoretical knowledge, reveal conditions determining whether visual learning succeeds or fails, and contribute to visual expert training programs. |
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Kuba Glazek Graduate Research Assistant Kuba is a graduate student in the Brain, Behavior, and Cognition program at Temple. He is interested in examining conditions under which creative production may take place, including the different roles of primary and secondary reward stimuli (e.g., food and monetary reward, respectively). Discrete brain regions and neural circuits are implicated in reward processing, and Kuba plans to use fMRI to examine the relative brain activations associated with these different types of reward. His studies will potentially contibute new insights about sources of motivation for different populations and will further our understanding of reward processing. |
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Alyssa Tyson Undergraduate Research Assistant A junior at Temple University, Alyssa is pursuing a degree in psychology and plans to graduate with a minor in cognitive neuroscience. In the lab, her projects include examining the "own-race bias" and how holisitic processing may be affected by one's emotional state. Alyssa is interested in how this study could be extended to help understand why individuals with autism have difficulty perceiving faces. She plans to pursue a career in the field of neuropsychology, specializing in developmental disorders. |
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Jolene Stouffer Undergraduate Research Assistant |
