Lab Members
Principal Investigator
Dr. Karl Szpunar completed his doctoral training in cognitive psychology and cognitive neuroscience at Washington University in St. Louis in 2009, and his postdoctoral training at Harvard University in 2015.
Announcement:
Dr. Karl Szpunar recently moved to Ryerson University from the University of Illinois at Chicago. He will be accepting new graduate students for Fall 2020.
Graduate Students
Sushmita Shrikanth
Sushmita Shrikanth completed her undergraduate degree at the University of California at Santa Cruz in 2015 where she conducted her thesis project under the supervision of Dr. Benjamin Storm. Sushi is currently a fourth year graduate student.
Vannia Puig
Vannia Puig completed her undergraduate degree at the University of Puerto Rico in 2014. She then served as a research assistant in the Memory Lab at the University of Chicago under the supervision of Dr. David Gallo, and is currently a second year graduate student.
Katie Hudson
Katie Hudson completed her undergraduate degree at the Ohio State University in 2018 where she conducted her thesis project in the Motivation and Cognitive Science Lab under the supervision of Dr. Kentaro Fujita. Katie is currently a first year graduate student.
Yuchen Li
Yuchen Li completed her undergraduate degree at the University of California, Los Angeles in 2018 where she conducted her thesis project under the supervision of Dr. Carolyn Parkinson. Yuchen is currently a first year graduate student.
Visiting Scholars
Lisa Murphy (Fall 2018) - University College Cork (Ireland)
Trish Varao-Sousa (Spring 2018) - University of British Columbia
Jason Chan (Fall 2017) - Iowa State University (USA)
Müge Özbek (Fall 2016) - Aarhus University (Denmark)
Undergraduate Research Assistants
Past
Elizabet Bonilla, Izabela Brzoza, Martina Cancelo, Chloe Carl, Daniela Chacon, Ben Chaloupka, Tony Cossidente, Matthew Escalona, Araceli Estrada, Chiara Faust, Aurelie Ganem, Loan Huynh, Asfia Kahn, Jennifer Kargol, Constantina Mastoracos, Zachary McKenzie, Jessica Ngiam, Nicholas Pfahler, Sara Raja, Yaniz Rayo, Vritti Samtani, Evan Self, Breyauna Spencer, Jadisha Vargas, Haley Lerand, Brittany Hamling, Lindy Leonard, Noor Saffarini
Collaborators (past and present)
Donna Rose Addis, University of Toronto
Roland Benoit, Max Plank Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences
Jason Chan, Iowa State University
Felipe De Brigard, Duke University
Stan Klein, University of California, Santa Barbara
Kathleen McDermott, Washington University in St. Louis
Kourken Michaelian, University of Otago
Henry Roediger, Washington University in St. Louis
Daniel Schacter, Harvard University
Nathan Spreng, Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital
Peggy St. Jacques, University of Alberta, Edmonton
Piotr Szpunar, University at Albany, SUNY
Endel Tulving, University of Toronto