>> I'm a graduate student in the Psychology Department at Tufts University, working with Nalini Ambady in the Interpersonal Perception & Communication Lab. I'm also doing some of my research with Phil Holcomb in the NeuroCognition Lab at Tufts and with Ken Nakayama in the Vision Sciences Lab at Harvard. Additionally, I'm a long-distance member of the Social Communication Lab at UCLA, working with Kerri Johnson. Before coming to Tufts, I received my B.A. in Psychology, Social/Cultural Analysis, and Neural Science from New York University. 

 

>> I'm interested in how we extract information about other people, most importantly through another's face, but also through vocal and bodily cues. People's faces contain very little statistical variation, and yet the subtlest of cues convey incredible amounts of information, like another's sex, race, emotional state, and personality characteristics. My research digs into the underlying dynamics through which the brain gives rise to these rapid perceptions of others. I incorporate insights and techniques across social and cognitive psychology, neuroscience, and dynamical approaches in cognitive science. Sometimes, this involves looking into how these perceptions evolve in real-time, using continuous hand movements and event-related brain potentials. At other times, this involves measuring whole-brain activity using neuroimaging techniques. Please see Research for more information.