Cognition Lab
Cognition Lab: Think about it
Principal Investigator: Dr. Mari Sanchez
Dr. Sanchez is a cognitive psychologist who specializes in speech perception, production, and memory.
The Cognition Lab is a dynamic group that thrives and is shaped by undergraduate and Master’s student involvement. The topics investigated vary year to year, given student interest and involvement, though all project topics relate to cognition. Students get a variety of hands-on experiences, from presenting and discussing relevant research articles, to formulating testable hypotheses to guide our research projects, to analyzing and discussing project data, and presenting our research at conferences. Undergraduate and Master’s students may earn recognition for their level of involvement in lab projects with authorship. In a given semester the Cognition Lab supports approximately 20 student research assistants and up to 5 Master’s students.
Research Opportunities
Dr. Sanchez looks forward to continuing her current lines of research and see them evolve with student input. She looks forward to supporting students by giving them opportunities to experience science in action by assisting with one of Dr. Sanchez’s projects or pursuing their own lines of research.
Contact
Principal Investigator:
Dr. Sanchez
ks2271@humboldt.edu
Office Phone: 707-826-3748
Office: BSS 426
Lab Managers:
Alicia Martin
aem135@humboldt.edu
Current and Past Graduate Students and Thesis Projects
- Juergen Riedelsheimer, TBA
- Andrew Greely, TBA
- Anastina Steiber, Thesis: A multilingual investigation of perceived and objective proficiency
- Kira Trinity, Thesis: Close-up details in film and prosocial tendencies: An experimental study on the effect of cinematic editing on empathy
- Alicia Martin, Thesis: Reasonable: Accommodating Students with Disabilities
- Aaron Foster, Thesis: Effects of spatial language cues on attention and the perception of ambiguous images
- Josue Rodriguez, Thesis: Phonetic convergence and auditory imagery in reading
- Cassady McLaughlin, Thesis: The role of encoding specificity in incidental learning: Implications for explicit and implicit false memories
- Summer Thornfeldt, Thesis: Reserve, symptoms, sex, and outcome following a single sports-related concussion
- Zhelin Wu, Thesis: The relationship between personality characteristics and creativity on judgements of facial attractiveness
- Caitlin Clark, Thesis: Cannabis use frequency and mood on creativity
- Gregg Hubbard, Thesis: Why we should expect success: The impact of inducing self-expectancy on academic performance
