Meet the team
Dr. Stephen Mitroff
Principal Investigator Steve Mitroff is the lab director. He received his B.A. from UC Berkeley in 1998 and his Ph.D. from Harvard in 2002. After a postdoc position at Yale, he spent 10 years as a faculty member at Duke. He joined the Psychology department at GW in 2015. (CV) |
Dr. Patrick Cox
Postdoctoral Fellow Patrick completed a B.S. in Physics with a minor in Cognitive Science from Georgetown University in 2008. He went on to receive his Ph.D. in Neuroscience from the same institution in Max Riesnhuber's Lab for Computational Cognitive Neuroscience. In August of 2017, Patrick began his postdoc at GW with the aim of using "big data" approaches to study the effect of training and experience on object categorization and visual search. patrickhcox.weebly.com/ |
Samoni Nag
Ph.D. Student Samoni is a fourth-year doctoral student in Cognitive Neuroscience program. She graduated from Emory University in 2016, double majoring in Psychology and Human Health. Afterwards, she worked as a lab manager in Julie Golomb's lab at The Ohio State University. Samoni's research interests include visual attention, applied visual search, and the influences of selection history on search strategies. |
Emma Siritzky
Ph.D. Student Emma is a first-year doctoral student in the Cognitive Neuroscience program. She received her undergraduate degree in 2020 from Elon University, where she majored in Psychology. Emma’s research interests are focused on individual and age-related differences in visual attention and memory. She is currently studying the impact of individual differences in associative memory function on visual attention and implicit learning in visual search tasks. |
Justin Grady
Undergraduate student Justin is a fourth-year undergraduate student majoring in Psychology with a minor in Business. Justin has been collecting accolades, including the GW Luther Rice Fellowship and the FABBS Undergraduate Research Excellence Award. He is currently using data from the lab to explore the relationship between fatigue, visual search, and conscientiousness. Justin is looking at individual differences in cognitive performance that have academic and applied implications. |
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