Mentor

Ralph Adolphs, PhD

Program Start

January 2003

PhD Research Concentration

In the big picture, my interests revolve around the role of motivation in visual perception and the manner in which systems known to be involved in emotion and motivation modulate visual perception by way of attention, expectation and mechanisms of plasticity.

Dissertation Topic

Making Sense of Eye Movements: A Generalized Linear Modeling Framework

Thesis Defense Date

August 2008

Current Position

Assistant Research Professor, Department of Neurosurgery

University of Nebraska Medical Center