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: Influence of age and positive and negative mood-states on working memory using functional MRI.

paulineb AT sas.upenn.edu

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

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

Audrey Lustig
Graduate Student, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Visit Website

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