Mangels Lab: Cognitive Neuroscience of Memory and Attention

 

Director: Jennifer Mangels (PhD, University of California, Berkeley, 1995)

Associate Professor, Baruch College & Graduate Center of CUNY (2007- )
jennifer_mangels_at_baruch.cuny.edu

Associate Professor, Columbia University (2003-2007)
Assistant Professor, Columbia University (1998-2003)
Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Rotman Research Institute, University of Toronto, Canada (1995-1998)

 

 

Graduate Students (former)

	Emily Stern Attained PhD: November 2005 Currently: Post-doctoral fellow at University of Michigan, Psychiatry Dept Dissertation Title: Neural correlates of preparatory attentional control: Relationship to behavior and processing of conflict stimuli
	Christopher Summerfield Creator of the BEAST (Brain Electrophysiological Analysis and Statistical Testing): http://www.columbia.edu/~cs2028/beast/beast.htm Attained PhD: October 2005 Currently: Post-doctoral fellow, INSERM, Paris, France Dissertation Title: Cognitive control during episodic memory formation Dr. Summerfield's Dissertation was the sole 2006 New York Academy of Sciences Cattell Dissertation Award Winner.
	Anja Soldan (first row, farthest left) Attained PhD: September 2005 Currently: Post-doctoral fellow, Columbia University Medical Center Dissertation Title: Neurocognitive processes underlying priming in the possible/impossible object-decision test
	Kate Bieger Attained PhD: August 2005 Currently: Clinical Re-specialization Program, Adelphi University Dissertation Title: The role of episodic associations in the early stages of concept formation

Undergraduate Honors Students (current and former)

Taylor Joerger (in progress)
Thesis title: TBA

Jennifer Mesrie (2006)
Thesis title: "Achievement motivation and learning: A Gamma-Band EEG study"

Rachel Kolster (2004)
Thesis title: "Processing emotional faces under divided attention: Orienting and Memory"

Jessica Chan (2003)
Thesis title: "Separating the novel from the normal: An ERP study"

Gillian Diercks (2003)
Thesis title: "How confidence affects learning: An ERP study"

Aileen Heinberg (2000)
Thesis title: "Enactment and aging: A test of the unitization hypothesis"

Marina Tasopolos (2000)
Thesis title: "Enactment and memory for temporal order"