Current Lab Members
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Lab Alumni
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.
Monique Vargas
Undergraduate research assistant
Sid Rafilson
Undergraduate research assistant
Savannah Auster
Undergraduate research assistant
Hannah Crazyhawk
Undergraduate research assistant
Isabella Facanha
Undergraduate research assistant
Ania Grudzien
Undergraduate research assistant
Alex Bui
Undergraduate research assistant
Ian Stack
Undergraduate research assistant
Joey Lim
Undergraduate research assistant
Qadry Collins
Undergraduate research assistant
Emily Carlson
Undergraduate research assistant
Hana Taha
Undergraduate research assistant
Yu Wang
Undergraduate research assistant
Zoe Chamness
Undergraduate research assistant
Elle Meyer
Undergraduate research assistant
Alexia Andres
Undergraduate research assistant
Krista Wurscher
Undergraduate research assistant
Ariel Back
Undergraduate research assistant
Ireland Johnson
Undergraduate research assistant
Matt Briones
Undergraduate research assistant
Taylor Herman
Undergraduate research assistant
Maija Sands
Undergraduate research assistant
Amanda Stebritz
Undergraduate research assistant
Ashima Oza
Undergraduate research assistant
Nyaab Bakshi
Undergraduate research assistant
Zara Chaudhury
Undergraduate research assistant
Cole Rogers
Undergraduate research assistant