Julia Cohen is completing her dissertation in the PhD program at the Institute of Child Development. She is interested in studying the interaction between emotion and cognitive control during adolescence. As an undergraduate, she majored in the interdisciplinary program, Biological Basis of Behavior, at the University of Pennsylvania. She then worked as a research assistant in the Brain and Vision Lab at the University of Rochester from 2002 to 2005. She hopes to use her background in the brain and cognitive sciences to help understand the mechanisms that both produce and help individuals cope with the turbulent emotions of the teen years.

Raquel Antoinette Gabbitas is a second-year graduate student at the Institute of Child Development.  Raquel received her BS in Psychology in 2008 from Westminster College in Salt Lake City, UT.  Raquel is a Diversity of Views and Experiences (DOVE) fellow and participated in the Community of Scholars Program at the University of Minnesota before starting her first year of graduate school.  Raquel’s research interests include executive functioning, cognitive processes in relation to emotional states, hormonal components of stress reactivity, and early socioemotional deprivation and maltreatment; she is particularly interested in understanding how children and adolescents from early stress environments cognitively adapt to their current environment, and she plans to use fMRI procedures to identify possible neural mechanisms supporting potential adaptations.

 

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Julie Markant is completing her dissertation at the Institute of Child Development. Julie received her BA in Psychology in 2002 from Cornell University, and spent several years working at the Infant Perception Lab at the University of Rochester. Julie’s research interests include memory, implicit learning, and attention; she is especially interested in studying the development of these capabilities in infancy and early childhood. In addition, she is interested in using neuroimaging techniques to explore the development of brain regions supporting these skills.

Sara Langworthy is a fourth-year graduate student in the CDN Lab. She is interested in attention and memory processes in child and adults and neuroimaging research using EEG and MRI technology. Sara graduate from Valparaiso University in May of 2006, and is glad to be back home in Minnesota.

Angela Tseng is completing her dissertation at the Institute of Child Development, working with Dr. Katie Thomas. She received her BA in Psychology and Biology from Barnard College, Columbia University in May 2000. Subsequently, she spent three years as a research assistant in the Developmental Psychobiology department of the New York State psychiatric Institute. She was a predoctoral research fellow a the Center of Neurobehavioral Development (CNBD) in her second year and has been a predoctoral research fellow at the Center of Cognitive Sciences (CCS) from 2004 to 2007. Her broad research interests comprise studying the development and neurobiological correlates of brain-behavior relations in both cognitive and emotional domains, including various aspects of implicit learning and memory processes. More specifically, she is interested in examining developmental differences in amygdala response to affect stimuli (i.e. facial expressions of emotion) by means of neuroimaging techniques such as structural and functional MRI, as well as high-density ERP.