Dr. Lauren Aulet
Postdoctoral Fellow, Psychology
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5000 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
5000 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
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Lauren S. Aulet is a Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow at Carnegie Mellon University with Drs. Jessica Cantlon and Brad Mahon, where she leverages behavioral, neural, and developmental methods to understand how humans represent numerical concepts. She received her PhD in Psychology (Cognition & Development) from Emory University, in Dr. Stella Lourenco's Spatial Cognition lab. She also collaborated with the labs of Dr. Daniel Dilks and Dr. Gregory Berns to understand the neural mechanisms underlying number perception in humans and dogs, respectively.
Dr. Marissa Laws
Postdoctoral Researcher, Psychology
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5000 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
5000 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
Bio
Marissa Laws is a Postdoctoral Researcher at Carnegie Mellon University working in the Kid Neuro Lab under Dr. Jessica Cantlon. She is interested in using fMRI to study the developmental cognitive neuroscience of math, numbers, and the factors that contribute to these skills, including gender/sex effects and spatial visualization ability. She earned her PhD from Georgetown University's Interdisciplinary Program in Neuroscience, where she studied brain activity in children with and without developmental dyscalculia (aka math disability) in the lab of Dr. Guinevere Eden.
Julia Conti
Ph.D Student, Psychology
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5000 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
5000 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
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My current research investigates the developmental and evolutionary history of relational reasoning and semantics, and the underlying mechanism that facilitates both processes.
Abhishek Dedhe
PhD Student, Psychology
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Pittsburgh, PA 15213
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
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Abhishek Dedhe is a PhD student in Cognitive Neuroscience and is also pursuing a Certificate in Quantitative Methodology. He studies the cognitive algorithms involved in abstract thought across domains like language, mathematics, and logic. He uses behavioral and computational methods to tackle these issues, with long-term interests at the intersection of the brain sciences, philosophy, and education.
Caroline Kaicher
Lab Manager, Psychology
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5000 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
5000 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
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Caroline Kaicher is the current lab manager of the Kid Neuro Lab. She received a BA in neuroscience with a minor in linguistics from Colgate University in 2022. Broadly, she is interested in the intersection of language and cognition, and aims to use cognitive neuroscience techniques to study the mechanisms behind such interactions in children and adults.
Teoman Ozaydin
Research Coordinator, Psychology
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5000 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
5000 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
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I am a researcher broadly interested in learning, memory and cognition. My work uses a combination of behavioral and neuroimaging methods to study the cognitive processes involved in the mental representations of objects and mathematical concepts. My target populations include adults, children, and rhesus macaques, allowing for developmental and evolutionary comparisons.
Dr. Marie Amalric
Postdoctoral Researcher, Psychology
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I am a visiting post-doctoral fellow at Carnegie Mellon University, working in Kid Neuro Lab.
During my PhD thesis, under the supervision of Stanislas Dehaene, I have tried to understand how the human brain represents and manipulates abstract mathematical concepts.
My work currently focuses on the learning processes involved in the acquisition of mathematics. I am addressing this issue with both behavioral and fMRI studies.
I work with adults and children in France and in the USA, and with a people from the Amazon, the Mundurucus.