Meet the team
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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) |
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Emma Siritzky
Ph.D. Student Emma is a fifth-year doctoral student in the Cognitive Neuroscience program. She received her undergraduate degree in 2020 from Elon University, where she majored in Psychology. She is interested in how individual differences and prior experience influence visual attention, associative memory, and related learning mechanisms. Emma is currently using big data to study the effects of task relevance and stimulus prevalence on associative learning in visual search. |
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Sarah Malykke
Ph.D. Student Sarah is a forth-year graduate student in the Cognitive Neuroscience program. She is interested in the cognitive adaptive processes involved in error monitoring and the subsequent impact of these processes on performance. Her current research employs novel response measures to distinguish between strategic and non-strategic adjustments following errors in task performance. |
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Justin Grady
Ph.D. Student Justin is a third-year graduate student in the Cognitive Neuroscience program. He is using data from the lab to explore the relationship between fatigue, visual search, and conscientiousness. Justin is also exploring models of human behavior and how they can be informed by large data. Justin is looking at individual differences in cognitive performance that have academic and applied implications. |
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Olivia Jenkins
Ph.D. Student Olivia is a first-year PhD student in the Cognitive Neuroscience program. Her current research investigates how individual differences can predict changes to target identification thresholds in visual search tasks. Olivia will be applying this work to human-machine interfacing, with the specific aim of investigating how machines influence human operators’ decision making processes. |
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Balkees Rekik
M.S. Student, Applied Psychology Program Balkees is a first-year master's student in the Applied Psychology program. She is interested in the role of burnout in workplace behavior, with a focus on how burnout predicts job seeking behavior in currently employed individuals. Her current research examines the moderating effects of employment type and work modality on the relationship between burnout and job seeking |
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Maggie Dochnal
Undergraduate Researcher Maggie is a third-year undergraduate student in the Columbian College of Arts and Sciences. She is currently pursuing a double major in cognitive neuroscience and psychology along with a minor in biology. Her research focuses on using mouse-tracking to study post-error adjustments in visual search. |
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