Graduate Students
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Cyntia Baileris a Ph.D. student in Language Studies at the Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC), Brazil, and a visiting scholar in the Department of Psychology, at Carnegie Mellon University for the year 2014-2015. She majored in English and Portuguese Language Studies and received an M.A. degree from UFSC in 2011. She has experience with research in Psycholinguistics and Applied Linguistics and has been interested in understanding how language is implemented in the brain, especially in the case of bilinguals. Her current project involves investigating the representation of concepts in the context of sentences in bilinguals, native speakers of Portuguese and speakers of English as a second language. Her work has been supervised by professor Dr. Lêda Maria Braga Tomitch (UFSC) and Dr. Marcel Just (CMU).  Email
cyntiab@andrew.cmu.edu
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Andrew Baueris a doctoral student in the Department of Psychology. He received a bachelor's degree from Kenyon College with majors in neuroscience and psychology. His research aims are to characterize in a fine-grained manner how and where semantic knowledge is neurally represented in the adult human brain, and also to illuminate how a new neural knowledge representation emerges and changes as a new concept is being learned. Methodologically, he uses functional neuroimaging (principally MRI but also MEG) together with multi-voxel pattern analyses (e.g. pattern classification and RSA) and functional connectivity analyses. Additionally, he is interested in potential applications of his research to education and instructional design. Email
bauera@cmu.edu
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Former Graduate Students
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Saudamini Roy Damarlacompleted her Ph.D. training in the Department of Psychology. She is interested in the neural underpinnings of cognition in normal and autistic individuals using fMRI as a tool. She completed her undergraduate training in biology and chemistry, and received a Masters in Psychology from SUNY-Buffalo. Email
saudamin@andrew.cmu.edu
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Akiko Mizunowas a Ph.D. student in the Department of Psychology. She received a B.A. from San Diego State University with a psychology major and biology minor. Her primary research interest is functional connectivity in autism. Email
amizuno@andrew.cmu.edu
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Sarah Schipulcompleted her Ph.D. training in the Department of Psychology. Sarah is now a postdoctoral fellow in the UNC Carolina Institute for Developmental Disabilities. She is investigating the neural basis of learning and social cognition in autism using fMRI. She earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Cognitive Science with a minor in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University. Email
ses@andrew.cmu.edu
Investigator's Homepage:
www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/ses/
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