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

Shereen Chang
Graduate Student – Department of Philosophy
Philosophy of science, nonhuman animal cognition (especially avian), implications of animal cognition research

Tim Chen
Graduate Student – Department of Bioengineering
Behavioral Neuroscience

Hannah Gura
Graduate Student – Department of Neuroscience
Neuromodulation, sex differences, hormones, TMS, depression, PTSD

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

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

Allie Sinclair
Postdoc – Annenberg School for Communication
Learning and memory, affect, belief updating, behavior change

Steven Weisberg
Postdoc – Department of Neurology
Spatial cognition, navigation, fMRI

Clifford Workman
Postdoc – Department of Neurology
Moral psychology, moral neuroscience, moral learning, neuroaesthetics, neuropsychiatry

Lauren Wright
Graduate student – Interdisciplinary Studies in Human Development
Adversity, stress, child and adolescent development, uncertainty

Wanling Zou
Graduate student – Department of Psychology
Moral psychology, moral neuroscience, moral learning, neuroaesthetics, neuropsychiatry