Faculty

Taosheng Liu Research interests: visual perception and attention, working memory, decision making. Email: Phone:  517.432.6694 Links: personal webpage, Google scholar

Postdoctoral scientists

	Xiaoli Zhang Xiaoli received her B.S. in Psychology from Tsinghua University (China), and her Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology from The Ohio State University where she worked with Julie Golomb. Before joining MSU, she was a post-doc working with Sarah Shomstein at The George Washington University. Her research interests include visual perception and attention – particularly how they interact to handle dynamic information processing and their underlying neural mechanisms (personal webpage).
	Melisa Menceloglu Melisa received her B.S. in Psychology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and her Ph.D. in Psychology from Northwestern University where she worked with Satoru Suzuki. Before joining MSU, she completed three years of postdoctoral research at Brown University working with Joo-Hyun Song. Her research focuses on perception, action, and attentional processes in the temporal domain. She uses behavioral and EEG methods to understand how we generate expectations about timing of events, orient attention accordingly, and how these processes shape perception and action. (Google scholar).

Graduate students

Brendan Valentine Brendan is a Ph.D candidate in Psychology with a specialization in Cognitive Science. He is a Michigan native that graduated from Central Michigan University with a B.S. in Psychology and Neuroscience and a B.A. in French. He is interested in studying the neural correlates of attention and memory and how these cognitive processes contribute to consciousness. In his (limited) free time he enjoys spending time with his family, playing video games, and cooking.

Postbac researchers

Sydney George   Sydney graduated from Michigan State University with a BS in psychology with a minor in cognitive science. Her goal is to get her PhD in clinical or cognitive psychology. Her interests and hobbies include: coaching swim, painting, and traveling.

Undergraduate researchers

	Ashley Yuran   Ashley is pursuing a B.S. in human biology on the pre-medical track. She plans to attend medical school and aspires to become a surgeon. When Ashley is not studying, she enjoys traveling and attending sports events.
	Elena Serra   Elena is pursuing a B.S. in behavioral and systems neuroscience from Lyman Briggs. She has always been interested in the health sciences but is particularly fascinated by neuroscience due to a long history of neurodegenerative diseases in her family. After graduation, Elena plans on attending medical school. When she isn’t studying, Elena enjoys spending time with friends and traveling with her family.
	Nora Indenberga   Nora is a Latvian undergraduate currently pursuing a B.S. in Cellular and Developmental Neuroscience and strives to progress to Medical School. Her goal is to serve as a role model for ambition despite life’s obstacles, and to protect and care for the vulnerable. She tends to her mental health by cooking, jogging, and hanging out with the people closest to her.