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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) |
Post-Doctoral Fellows
POSTED FALL 2011: Postdoctoral fellowship on the neural effects of Mindfulness Training (Laboratory of Amishi Jha)
Applications are invited for a multi-year fellowship position investigating the Neural Effects of Mindfulness Training in the Laboratory of Amishi Jha at the University of Miami, in Coral Gables, Florida. The successful applicant will have an opportunity to play an important role in a funded research project investigating the neural effects (with EEG/ERP/FMRI) of short-form mindfulness training on attention and working memory in adults.
Essential skills include a thorough knowledge of human electrophysiology (EEG/ERP) and/or functional MRI and structural MRI techniques, fantastic organizational and computational abilities, as well as the ability to work well in a research team. While this position requires technical sophistication, it is more suited for someone who is scientifically interested in neuroplasticity and its relation to attention, working memory, and mindfulness training, than someone with a strict methods orientation. The successful applicant will hold a PhD in neuroscience or psychology (cognitive, affective, or social neuroscience emphasis).
Please submit applications by October 15, 2011 with a planned start date of Jan 1, 2012.
Please send applications (via e-mail) including cover letter, CV, the names and addresses of three referees, in one pdf file, to the Principal Investigator, Dr Amishi P. Jha (ajha @ psy.miami.edu).
Graduate Students
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Devika Jutagir Research Interests: Mechanisms by which stress impacts mental and physical health outcomes; cognitive neuroscience of working memory and resilience. d.jutagir AT umiami.edu |
POSTED FALL 2011: Call for new graduate students in the Jha Lab
Dr. Jha will be accepting 1-2 stellar graduate students to join the lab in the Fall of 2012. Candidates who have superb academic records, prior experience in cognitive neuroscience research, and an interest in receiving their graduate training in topics involving the neural bases of resilience, attention, working memory, and mindfulness should apply to the Dept. of Psychology at the University of Miami in the 2011-2012 application cycle.
Research Assistants
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Nina Rostrup Research Interests: How mindfulness meditation affects cognitive control and emotional regulation. n.rostrup AT miami.edu |
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Justin Dainer-Best Research Interests: Attentional control of working memory and the effect of resilience on attention. Psychophysiological and ERP correlates of attention, emotion, and stress. Sustained attention; statistical modeling. Curriculum Vitae (PDF) j.dainerbest AT miami.edu |
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Cristina García, UM ’11 Research Interests: Neural mechanisms of conflict adaptation and mindfulness training. cristinag AT miami.edu |
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Suzanne Parker Research Interests: The neural effects of mindfulness practice, especially regarding interpersonal attunement. sparker AT psy.miami.edu |
Undergraduate Students
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Merissa Goolsarran, UM ’13 Research Interests: Neural correlates of stress, attention, and resilience in relation to military psychology. Major: Neuroscience. |
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Zachary Kornblum, UM ’13 Research Interests: Seeing how mindfulness meditation affects emotional regulation and resiliency. Major: Neuroscience/Neuropsychology. |
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Christina Robinson, UM ’13 Research Interests: I’m interested in the impact of mindfulness on cognitive functioning and emotion regulation as well as the correlates of working memory and intelligence. Major: Neuroscience. |
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Adam Burton, UM ’14 Research Interests: The neural effects of mindfulness training on cognitive functioning, particularly in relation to working memory and executive function. Major: Neuroscience. |
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Emily Brudner, UM ’15 Research Interests: I’m interested in how the biological functions of the brain shape and affect human behavior, specifically in terms of neurological disorders. Also, I’m interested in exploring the effect of mindfulness and meditation on attention, specifically in relation to education. Major: Undeclared Arts & Sciences Pre-Med interested in Neuroscience. |
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Phillip Chan, UM ’15 Research Interests: Neural effects of stress and daily stimuli and how to counteract it through meditation and mindfulness practice. How events of daily life effect neurobiology, thoughts, attention, and emotions. Major: Neuroscience. |
Lab Alumni
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Toby Elliman |
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Anastasia Kiyonaga Graduate student, Egner Lab, Duke University |
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Brian Lakey |
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Amanda Codd Clinical Writer, ECRI Institute, Plymouth Meeting, PA |
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Alicia Hayes Graduate Student, University of Pennsylvania Counseling Psychology program |
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Pauline Baniqued Graduate Student, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
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Prithi Chandra Undergraduate, New York University |
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Brandon Chen, Bioengineering Independent Study Student Research Interests: Investigating if mind-wandering can be reduced with mental training. bchen4 AT seas.upenn.edu |
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Katrina Fincher Research Assistant to Dr. Paul Rozin, University of Pennsylvania |
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Charvi Ganatra Undergraduate, University of Pennsylvania |
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Jonathan Goldstein Medical Student, University of Connecticut |
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Dan Greif Mental health counselor, Boston, MA |
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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. |
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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. |
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Jennifer Katz J.D., University of California Los Angeles |
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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 |
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Minjoo Kweon, Psychology Student Research Interests: Influence of mindfulness training on attention. minjoo AT sas.upenn.edu |
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Audrey Lustig Graduate Student, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Visit Website |
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Lauren Mancuso Research Assistant to Dr. David Wolk, University of Pennsylvania |
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Anish Mehta Medical Student, Case Western Reserve University |
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Zev Rosen Graduate Student, Neuroscience at Columbia |
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Deepak Sambhara Research Scientist, GlaxoSmithKline |
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Gopal Shah Project manager, Epic systems, Madison, WI |
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Danielle Spiegel Law student, New York University |
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Kartik Sreenivasan Post-Doctoral Fellow, University of California, Berkeley Curriculum Vitae – PDF |
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Alice Tang Medical student, University of Vermont |
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Ling Wong Graduate Student, Neuroscience at UC-Davis |