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
Graduate Students
Kartik Sreenivasan, Neuroscience Graduate Student
Research Interests: ERP and behavioral studies of the effects of distraction on working memory.
Curriculum Vitae - PDF
kks AT mail.med.upenn.edu
Research Assistants
Pauline Baniqued, Research Assistant
Research Interests: fMRI analysis of conflict adaptation effects in working memory and attention tasks
paulineb AT sas.upenn.edu
Jonathan Goldstein, Research Assistant
Research Interests: ERP and EEG Studies of Mindfulness training in ADHD
kgb1172 AT gmail.com
Anastasia Kiyonaga, Research Assistant
Research Interests: Behavioral studies of the relationship between academic performance and working memory and attention.
kiyonaga AT dolphin.upenn.edu
Undergraduate Students
Anish Mehta, BBB Independent Study Student
Research Interests: Influence of tonic emotional words on working memory maintenance processes.
anishj AT sas.upenn.edu
Charvi Ganatra, Psychology Student
Research Interests: If/how positive and negative mood alter working memory maintenance processes.
charvi AT sas.upenn.edu
Minjoo Kweon, Psychology Student
Research Interests: Influence of mindfulness training on attention.
minjoo AT sas.upenn.edu
Brandon Chen, Bioengineering Independent Study Student
Research Interests: Investigating if mind-wandering can be reduced with mental training.
bchen4 AT seas.upenn.edu
Lauren Mancuso, Cognitive Science Independent Study Student
Research Interests: Influence of creativity mindsets on attentional functioning.
mancuse AT sas.upenn.edu
Lab Alumni
Prithi Chandra
Undergraduate, New York University
Katrina Fincher
Research Assistant to Dr. Paul Rozin, University of Pennsylvania
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.
Audrey Lustig
Graduate Student, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Zev Rosen
Graduate Student, Neuroscience at Columbia
Gopal Shah
Project manager, Epic systems, Madison, WI
Danielle Spiegel
Law student, New York University
Alice Tang
Medical student, University of Vermont
Ling Wong
Graduate Student, Neuroscience at UC-Davis