People

 

Amishi Jha, Lab Director
Research Interests: Cognitive Neuroscience of Attention and Working Memory
Neural Effects of Mental Training with mindfulness-based techniques

Curriculum Vitae - PDF
apjha AT psych.upenn.edu

Post-Doctoral Fellows

Toby Elliman, Post-Doctoral Fellow
Research Interests:Using brain recording techniques to understand the interaction between physical brain activity, conscious thought, and behavior. I am currently using EEG to investigate the effectiveness of mental resilience training in soldiers.

Curriculum Vitae - PDF

telliman AT sas.upenn.edu

Research Assistants

Anastasia Kiyonaga, Research Assistant
Research Interests: The development of working memory, attention, and dynamic cognitive control, and the relationship of these capacities to academic achievement.

kiyonaga AT sas.upenn.edu

Brian Lakey, Research Assistant
Research Interests: The development of attention and emotion regulation through mindfulness training.

blakey AT sas.upenn.edu

Nina Rostrup, Research Assistant
Research Interests: How mindfulness meditation affects cognitive control and emotional regulation.

nina AT rostrup.com

Lab Alumni

Amanda Codd
Human Factors Consultant, Design Science, Philadelphia, PA

Alicia Hayes
Graduate Student, University of Pennsylvania Counseling Psychology program

Pauline Baniqued
Graduate Student, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Prithi Chandra
Undergraduate, New York University

Brandon Chen, Bioengineering Independent Study Student
Research Interests: Investigating if mind-wandering can be reduced with mental training.

bchen4 AT seas.upenn.edu

Katrina Fincher
Research Assistant to Dr. Paul Rozin, University of Pennsylvania

Charvi Ganatra
Undergraduate, University of Pennsylvania

Jonathan Goldstein
Medical Student, University of Connecticut

Dan Greif
Mental health counselor, Boston, MA

Nina Hsu
Nina graduated from Duke University in 2006. While in Amishi’s lab, she piloted a project on the effects of mood on working memory. Now a Neuroscience graduate student in Sharon Thompson-Schill’s lab at the University of Pennsylvania, she is using behavioral and fMRI methods to investigate the storage and organization of semantic memory in the brain.

Eranda R. Jayawickreme, M.A.
Eranda is a Psychology graduate student in Dr. Martin Seligman’s lab at the University of Pennsylvania. Eranda’s first-year master’s thesis, which was co-supervised by Dr. Jha, examined the effects of positive stimuli on attention and working memory.

Jennifer Katz
J.D., University of California Los Angeles

Jason Krompinger
Jason is currently a graduate student in the University of Delaware clinical Psychology program. He uses ERPs to study cognition and emotion. He is specifically interested in attentional biases in mood disorders as reflected in ERPs that index motivated attention and error processing. Visit Website

Minjoo Kweon, Psychology Student
Research Interests: Influence of mindfulness training on attention.

minjoo AT sas.upenn.edu

Audrey Lustig
Graduate Student, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
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Lauren Mancuso
Research Assistant to Dr. David Wolk, University of Pennsylvania

Anish Mehta
Medical Student, Case Western Reserve University

Zev Rosen
Graduate Student, Neuroscience at Columbia

Deepak Sambhara
Research Scientist, GlaxoSmithKline

Gopal Shah
Project manager, Epic systems, Madison, WI

Danielle Spiegel
Law student, New York University

Kartik Sreenivasan
Post-Doctoral Fellow, University of California, Berkeley
Curriculum Vitae - PDF

Alice Tang
Medical student, University of Vermont

Ling Wong
Graduate Student, Neuroscience at UC-Davis