About Us

About Our Lab

Principal Investigator

Brian D. Gonsalves

Brian Gonsalves received his Ph.D. in Psychology from Northwestern University in 2001. He is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at Illinois and a full-time faculty member of the Cognitive Neuroscience group at the Beckman Institute. His field of interest is cognitive neuroscience, in particular using various brain imaging techniques to understand the brain basis of human memory.

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Graduate Students

Carol Baym

First-year graduate student. Interests - False memory; Decision-making

Judy Chiu

First-year graduate student. Interests - Emotion and memory

Jason Coronel

My primary research interests are political psychology and social neuroscience. I am especially interested in the information processing mechanisms that underlie political cognition. I am currently developing and conducting experimental research on the following topics: 1) False memories of political candidates 2) the cognitive representation of personal preferences 3) electrophysiological measures of automatic social stereotyping

Brion Woroch

I am going into my second year of graduate study. I believe in taking a multi-modal approach to psychological research. My current research interests are ERP and fMRI studies of human recognition memory. I have also done some previous work on studies of perceptual expertise and the ERN. My most recent study examines the relationship between repetition suppression, item memory, and familiarity within perirhinal cortex.

Undergraduate Students

Josh Griffith

Description coming soon.

Josh Richman

I am a senior majoring in psychology and minoring in anthropology. I joined the lab in Spring '07 and plan to remain here until I graduate. My primary interests include the neurological organization of memory and the characteristics of false memory. My current experiment with Dr. Gonsalves is investigating the similarities between the neurological characteristics of true and false memory. I hope to continue in this field by pursuing a Ph.D in psychology at a TBD university.