MindCORE Associates are post-doctoral scholars and graduate students at the University of Pennsylvania with emerging or established records of research on topics connected to mind and brain, and who are mentored by MindCORE faculty. To become a MindCORE Associate, please click here.
Ada Aka
Graduate student – Departments of Psychology and Marketing
Human memory, judgments and decision making
Kristin Brethel-Haurwitz
Postdoc – Department of Psychology
Empathy, social decision making
Stephanie Bugden
Postdoc – Department of Psychology
Mathematical cognition, learning disability, number word learning, cognitive neuroscience
Shereen Chang
Graduate Student- Department of Philosophy
Philosophy of science, nonhuman animal cognition (especially avian), implications of animal cognition research
Corey Cusimano
Graduate Student – Department of Psychology
Social cognition, moral judgment, theory of mind
Eugen Dimant
Postdoc – Program in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics (PPE)
Experimental behavioral economics, behavioral ethics, crime economics, migration, norms
Ariana Familiar
Graduate Student – Department of Psychology
Learning, memory, machine learning approaches for studying the brain and memory
Megan Healey
Graduate student – Department of Neuroscience
Language comprehension, language impairment in neurodegenerative disease
Stacey Humphries
Postdoc – Department of Neurology and Center for Cognitive Neuroscience
Neuroaesthetics, concepts, actions, language, gesture
Yoed Kenett
Postdoc – Department of Psychology
Creativity, semantic networks, memory, high-level cognition
Anna Leshinskaya
Postdoc – Department of Psychology
Learning, semantic memory, concepts
Zhengang Lu
Postdoc – Department of Psychology
Cognitive neuroscience
Anne Park
Graduate student – Department of Psychology
Early life adversity, brain development, self-control, reward processing, emotion regulation
Simone Schriger
Graduate student – Department of Psychology
Implementation science, global mental health
Kristopher Smith
Graduate student – Department of Psychology
Social preferences, moral cognition, cooperation, and culture
Ursula Tooley
Graduate Student – Department of Neuroscience
Early environmental impacts on functional brain network development, plasticity & learning, curiosity
Steven Weisberg
Postdoc – Department of Neurology
Spatial cognition, navigation, fMRI
Yosiane White
Graduate student – Department of Linguistics
Lexical processing, dialect processing, bilingualism
Clifford Workman
Postdoc – Department of Neurology
Moral psychology, moral neuroscience, moral learning, neuroaesthetics, neuropsychiatry
Wanling Zou
Graduate student – Department of Psychology
Moral psychology, moral neuroscience, moral learning, neuroaesthetics, neuropsychiatry
