People - Kuhl Lab

Principal Investigator

Brice Kuhl

Associate Professor, Department of Psychology. Brice received his Ph.D. from Stanford University, followed by a postdoctoral fellowship at Yale University. After three years as an Assistant Professor at NYU, he moved to the Department of Psychology at UO in fall 2015.

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Postdoctoral Fellows

Zhifang Ye

Zhifang received his PhD from Beijing Normal University where he used fMRI and machine learning algorithms to investigate the characteristics and behavioral consequences of neural pattern reinstatement during episodic memory retrieval. He is interested in understanding the neural mechanism of memory representation transformation during memory retrieval, new learning, and over time.

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Soroush Mirjalili

Soroush received his PhD from The University of Texas at Austin where he worked with Dr. Audrey Duarte. He is interested in how different cognitive functions (such as attention and perception) are associated with episodic memory, and how episodic memory processes change with aging.

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Research Associates

Nicole Dudukovic

Nicole received her Ph.D. from Stanford University. She is an instructor in the Department of Psychology and the Clark Honors College. Nicole focuses on interactions between attention and memory and is interested in applying memory research to other fields, particularly education.

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Graduate Students

Lindsay Rait

Lindsay is a sixth year graduate student working with Dr. Sarah DuBrow and Dr. Brice Kuhl. She graduated from Cornell where she worked with Dr. David Smith, and afterward, she was a lab manager at Yale with Dr. Nick Turk-Browne. Lindsay is interested in using fMRI to explore the role of the hippocampus in memory processes.

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Anisha Babu

Anisha is a fifth year graduate student in the Kuhl Lab. She received a B.S. from The Ohio State University, where she worked with Julie Golomb. Anisha is interested in using behavioral and fMRI techniques to study the transformation of visual information from perception to long-term memory, and how memory may be distorted in the process.

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Tongle Cai

Tongle is a first year PhD student in the Kuhl Lab. She received a B.S in neuroscience from Duke Kunshan University, where she worked with Shan Wang. Tongle is interested in studying how memory is distorted and transformed from encoding to retrieval, and its relationship with imagination.

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Ryan Gerald Monkman

Ryan is a first year PhD student co-advised by Dr. Brice Kuhl and Dr. Deepu Murty. He graduated from Elon University where he worked with Dr. Amy Overman, and also worked as a lab coordinator with Dr. Elizabeth Kensinger at Boston College. Ryan is interested in using fMRI to investigate how emotion influences memory.

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America Romero

America is a first year graduate student in the Kuhl lab. She received her BS from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, where she worked with Dr. Kelly Bennion studying retroactive interference. Prior to joining the lab, she worked with Drs. Elizabeth Mormino and Anthony Wagner at Stanford University, investigating memory in healthy aging. America is interested in utilizing neural and behavioral techniques to understand the interactions between memory and attention, and how these processes change over time and with age.

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Full-Time Research Assistants

Eric Wang

Eric graduated from the University of Oregon majoring in psychology and minoring in computer science, economics, and music technology. He has an interest in memory and social decision making in cognitive neuroscience.

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Julian Gamez

Julian graduated from the University of Oregon with a BS in psychology. He is interested in exploring how time is represented in memory.

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Katie Hedman

Katie graduated from the University of Oregon with a BS in neuroscience and minors in biology and psychology. She is interested in investigating aphantasia, mental imagery, and visual memory. Katie also loves croissants.

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Undergraduate Research Assistants

Miles Clary

Miles is a first-year Neuroscience major. He is very interested in how information is encoded and retrieved, as well as a deeper understanding of the brain.

Jake Bradbury

Jake is a fourth-year student majoring in Neuroscience and Psychology and minoring in Biochemistry. He is interested in the cognitive neuroscience and neurobiology of memory as well as fMRI and other neuroimaging techniques.

Sam Simon

Sam is a first-year undergraduate student majoring in Neuroscience at the University of Oregon. He is interested in the formation and recollection of memory, as well as machines that monitor brain activity.

Charlotte Olds

Charlotte is a first-year student majoring in neuroscience and psychology. She is looking forward to learning more about research involving memory and its connection to aging.

Sophie Snyder

Sophie is a second year Human Physiology major and is interested in how memories are stored and the physiology of the human brain.

Zara Ochoa

Zara is an undergraduate student majoring in Psychology with a minor in criminology. She plans to attend graduate school to pursue a career as a psychologist. Zara enjoys reading, exercising, staying actively involved in her church community, and spending time with friends and family.

Futing Zou

Futing graduated and received her PhD in Spring 2024. She is now a postdoc at Brown University.

Wanjia Guo

Wanjia graduated and received her PhD in Spring 2024. She is now an applied scientist at Amazon.

Maxwell Drascher

Max graduated and received his PhD in Spring 2023.

Yufei Zhao

Yufei graduated and received her PhD in Spring 2023.

Subin Han

Subin joined the lab as lab manager after graduating from Johns Hopkins University. She joined Dr. Nicole Long’s Lab as a Ph.D. student at University of Virginia.

Paul Keene

Paul joined the lab as lab manager after graduating from the University of Chicago, where he studied Psychology and Neuroscience.

Robert Molitor

Robert was a postdoc in the lab for 1.5 years. He is now a research specialist at Experis.

Yingying Wang

Yingying was a postdoc in the lab for 1 year. She is now part of the Department of Psychological and Behavioral Sciences at Zhejiang University.

Nicole Long

Nicole was a postdoc in the lab for 3 years. She is now a PI for The Long Term Memory Lab at the University of Virginia.

Ghootae Kim

Ghootae was a postdoc in the lab for 2 years. He is now a senior researcher at the Korea Brain Research Institute.

Franziska Richter

Franka was a postdoc in the lab for 2 years, supported by a DAAD German Academic Exchange fellowship, and is now the PI for The Brain and Memory Lab at Leiden University.

Serra Favila

Serra was a graduate student at NYU and is now working as a postdoc at Columbia University.

Avi Chanales

Avi was a graduate student at NYU and has accepted a data science job at the Wall Street Journal.

Hongmi Lee

Hongmi was a graduate student at NYU and is now working as a postdoc at Johns Hopkins University.

Alexandra (Alex) Tremblay-McGaw

Alex joined the lab as lab manager after completing her undergraduate studies at Skidmore College. She is now the Lead Clinical Research Coordinator in the Biobehavioral Pediatric Pain Lab at Stanford University.

Sarah Sweigart

Sarah joined the lab after completing her undergraduate studies at the University of Delaware as the lab manager. She is now pursuing her Ph.D. at UC Davis.

Rosalie (Rosie) Samide

Rosie joined the lab (at NYU) after completing her undergraduate studies at Haverford College as the lab manager. She is now pursuing her Ph.D. at Boston College.