Dr. Lighthall proudly modeling her hospital gown before testing out the Orlando VA’s new 3 Tesla magnetic resonance imaging scanner.
Dr. Lighthall celebrated the end of the year with UCF’s new Neuroscience Alliance student organization. The event was hosted by Dr. Kimi Sugaya and offered a chance for undergraduates to directly connect with neuroscience faculty across different departments. Cheers to all our aspiring brain scientists at UCF!
Lab research assistants, Melissa Merz and James Ross, presented at the UCF SURE 2015. Their independent research examined how individual differences in emotion, decision style, and financial literacy predict beliefs about gain and loss probabilities during economic decision making.
First-year PhD student, Kylie Fernandez, presented her research at the Cognitive Neuroscience Society annual meeting in NYC. Her poster entitled, “Asymmetry in attention and memory while learning in gain versus loss domains”, presents work in collaboration with Dr. Camelia Kuhnen of the UNC Kenan–Flagler Business School.
MDNA ended the year with an exciting new seminar series that bridges the gaps between neuroscience disciplines. The event featured a welcome message from Dr. Lighthall (Seminar Coordinator), research presentations by Dr. Kiminobu Sugaya (MDNA Chair, Burnett School of Biomedical Sciences) and Dr. Jeffrey Bedwell (Psychology), and a social hour […]
The Graduate Dean’s Fellowship to superior graduate students who are newly enrolling in one of UCF’s graduate programs. These awards provide one year of support to the most qualified applicants to the institution. Congratulations to new AD&D PhD student, Lindsay Conner!
Thanks to a grant from the College of Medicine, the AD&D Lab will be collaborating with Dr. Daniel Paulson’s Orlando Later-Life Developmental Research Lab on a project examining the effectiveness of a new caregiver support group intervention. The project aims to reduce the burden associated with dementia caregiving, better understand […]
The AD&D Lab is embarking on a new fMRI study in collaboration with Dr. Natalie Ebner, Director of the Social-Cognitive and Affective Development Lab at the University of Florida in Gainesville. The project will examine how the brain integrates emotional and nonemotional memories about consumer products and how this affects […]
Trustees Fellowships are awarded to superior graduate students who are enrolling in one of UCF’s doctoral programs. These awards provide multi-year support to the most qualified applicants to the institution. Congratulations to new AD&D PhD student, Kylie Fernandez!