Alfredo Zúñiga
Degrees Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of Texas at Austin, 2019-21 Ph.D., Oregon Health & Science University, 2019 M.S., University of Colorado Boulder, 2014 B.A., Willamette […]
Nathan Foster
Interested in cognitive psychology, Foster studies human memory, metacognition, concept learning, and intentional forgetting to answer important questions about the ways that students learn.
Sharon Lynn
Studying free-living eastern bluebirds and captive zebra finches, Lynn studies hormone-behavior interactions by studying stress hormone endocrinology from both a mechanistic standpoint and an evolutionary standpoint.
Grit Herzmann
Working with undergraduate students, Herzmann studies memory and cognition relating to facial recognition. Herzmann is especially interested in “the other race effect,” a phenomenon that describes the increased facial recognition of people of the same race as oneself.
Seth Kelly
Using Drosophila melanogaster (the fruit fly), Kelly investigates the function of the “fly ZC3H14” gene (called Nab2 in flies), in nervous system development and function, especially as it relates to intellectual disability and IQ.
Amy Jo Stavnezer
Stavnezer is interested in behavioral neuroscience and works with students to investigate the role of sex in the completion of complex tasks and the effect of environmental factors on learning and memory in mice and rats.