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​Catherine Hartley   Associate Professor of Psychology and Neural Science (cate <at> nyu.edu)
Cate received her B.S. in Symbolic Systems from Stanford University and her PhD in Psychology from New York University.  She completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Sackler Institute for Developmental Psychobiology at Weill Cornell Medical College, joining  their faculty from 2014-2016 as an Assistant Professor before returning to NYU in July 2016.  When not doing science, Cate spends most of her time chasing boys.
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​Alice Zhang
    
Lab Manager  (az1517 <at> nyu.edu)
Alice received her B.S. in Computation and Cognition from MIT where she studied RL models of decision-making with Fiery Cushman. Post-grad, she spent a year working as a software engineer at a healthcare company. She is broadly interested in the cognitive and neural bases of mood, emotion, and mental health symptomatology. Outside the lab, she enjoys painting, playing board games, writing reviews on goodreads, and spending time in nature

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Susan Benear  Postdoctoral Fellow (slb671 <at> nyu.edu)
Susan earned her double B.A. in Psychology and Public Relations from Penn State and her Ph.D. in Psychology & Neuroscience from Temple University, where she studied memory development in early childhood. Her dissertation work focused on neural and behavioral event cognition and memory in children using naturalistic stimuli. Outside the lab, she likes cooking, running, playing piano, hanging out with her cat, and rating all the food and drinks around the city on a 10-point scale with her partner.
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​​Julie Lee   Postdoctoral Fellow (jl13768 <at> nyu.edu)
Julie studied a B.Sc in Psychology at the University of Bristol and a Ph.D. in Neuroscience at University College London. Her doctoral thesis focused on how neural activity changes across different decision-making tasks. In the Hartley lab, she is interested in the effects of experience on learning and decision-making, and how this changes over development. Outside of research, she enjoys playing (ice) hockey and eating good food. She strives for a world that empowers marginalized individuals and communities – one where science is inclusive, just and compassionate.
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Noam Goldway   Postdoctoral Fellow (ng2627 <at> nyu.edu)
Noam received his B.S. in Mind and Cognition Studies from Tel Aviv University and his Ph.D. from the Sagol School of Neuroscience at Tel Aviv University. His thesis focused on the neural mechanisms of embodied emotion and the effect of neuromodulation and psychoactive pharmacology on such neural representations. At the Hartley lab, Noam is investigating how individual differences in learning relate to transdiagnostic psychiatric symptoms expression across development. Outside the lab, he is working on projects linking neuroscience and art in collaboration with the Davidson Institute of Science Education.
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​Hanxiao Lu Graduate Student  (hl4860 <at> nyu.edu) 
Hanxiao received her B.A. in Neuroscience from Smith College. She is interested in understanding how emotional processes may have an instrumental role in learning and decision-making across developments through techniques such as psychophysiology and reinforcement learning paradigms. Outside the lab, Hanxiao is passionate about mountaineering, road/mountain biking and anything related to better psychiatric care.

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Rheza Budiono Graduate Student  (rheza <at> nyu.edu) 
Rheza is a first year graduate student in psychology, co-advised with Todd Gureckis. He is interested in explanations. How do we explain what happens? How do our explanations influence how we learn from, remember, and feel about what happens? 
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​Kate Nussenbaum Graduate Student  (katenuss <at> nyu.edu) [Personal website]
Kate received her Sc.B. from Brown University with a double major in Cognitive Neuroscience and Science & Society. She then earned an M.Sc. by Research at the University of Oxford, where she studied the influence of long-term memory on visual attention. Her doctoral research explores interactions between information-seeking, learning, and memory across development. Outside of the lab, Kate enjoys traveling, watching TV, and winning board games.
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​Nora Harhen  Visiting Graduate Student  (nch278 <at> nyu.edu) ​
Nora received her B.A. in Cognitive Science from UC Berkeley where she researched learning and decision-making with Anne Collins. After graduating, she worked with Marina Bedny at Johns Hopkins examining neuroplasticity in blind individuals. Currently, she is a graduate student in Cognitive Sciences at UC Irvine working with Aaron Bornstein and collaborating with the Hartley Lab to explore how memory-guided decision-making changes across development. Outside of the lab, Nora enjoys knitting, cooking, and bad reality tv.
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​Qingqing Yang
  Masters Research Assistant  (qy775 <at> nyu.edu) ​[Personal website]
Qingqing received her B.S. in Psychology from Zhejiang University, where she studied the interaction between visual attention and working memory. She is fascinated by how people could flexibly react to various goals and requirements, making decisions with strategies, even with constraints such as limited cognitive executive resources. Outside of the lab, Qingqing loves watching anime, music, and her cat Binx.
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Rosaura Cuevas  Undergraduate Research Assistant  (rc4619 <at> nyu.edu)
Rosaura is a sophomore pursuing a degree in Applied Psychology with a minor in child and adolescent mental health. She has always been interested in helping people, and being able to provide support to those struggling with mental illness and help reduce the stigma that we still have about it. Besides her professional interests, she loves to travel and explore new food and cultures, listen to music and spend time with her loved ones. 

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Sophia Nielsen  Undergraduate Research Assistant  (sln8985 <at> nyu.edu)
Sophia is pursuing a dual degree in biology and dance. She’s interested in how the brain responds to crises and the relationship between mental health and decision-making processes. Outside of the lab, Sophia enjoys dancing with friends, bird watching, and binge-watching romantic comedies. 

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Juan Velez  Undergraduate Research Assistant (jav455 <at> nyu.edu)
Juan is a senior majoring in psychology, with a minor in Child and Adolescent Mental Health Studies. He hopes to pursue his graduate degree in psychology. After that, he hopes to work in the field of research or medicine, preferably with a focus on cognition, sleep medicine, music, developmental psychology, and psychopathology. Aside from his academic endeavors, Juan enjoys listening to music, jogging, and spending time with his family.

Alumni

Alexandra Cohen  Former Postdoctoral Researcher, Emory University, Assistant Professor
Rebecca Martin  Former Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Pennsylvania, Research Director
Gail Rosenbaum  Former Postdoctoral Researcher, Geisinger Health Behavioral Insights Team, Staff Scientist
​​Michael Evans  Former Ph.D. Student, First Place for Youth, Data Scientist
​​Perri Katzman  Former Ph.D. Student
Hillary Raab  Former Ph.D. Student, Exos, Data Scientist
J. Hugo Decker  Former M.D./Ph.D. Student, Stanford Medicine, Resident 
Naiti Bhatt  Former Lab Manager, University of Edinburgh, Graduate Student
Greer Bizzell-Hatcher  Former Lab Manager, mpathic.ai, Clinical AI Research Associate
Nessa Bryce  Former Lab Manager, Harvard University, Ph.D. Student
​Camille Phaneuf  Former Lab Manager, Harvard University, Ph.D. Student
​Natalie Saragosa-Harris  Former Lab Manager, UCLA, Ph.D. Student
Maximilian Scheuplein Former Lab Manager, Leiden University, Ph.D. Student
Tracey Shi  Former Lab Manager​, Columbia University, M.D./Ph.D. Student
Morgan Glover  Former Masters Student, Wayne State University, Ph.D. Student
Nick Matese  Former Masters Student
Sean Maulhardt  Former Masters Student, University of Maryland, Ph.D. Student
Kelsey McDonald  Former Masters Student, Duke University, Ph.D. Student
​Daphne Valencia  Former Masters Student, Mt. Sinai Hospital, Research Coordinator
Yi (Jen) Yang  Former Masters Student, Temple University, Ph.D. Student
Xinxu (Karen) Shen  Former Graduate Research Assistant, Temple University, Ph.D. Student 
Hannah Walker  Former Graduate Research Assistant
Madeleine Moses-Payne   Former Visiting Graduate Student, UCL, Ph.D. Student
Linda Kerbl  Former Visiting Graduate Student, Free University Berlin, Masters Student
Laura Meine  Former Visiting Graduate Student, University of Zurich, Postdoctoral Researcher
​Lindsay Hunter  Former Research Assistant, Princeton University, Ph.D. Student
​Michael Liu  Former Research Assistant, Weill Cornell, M.D. Student
Maria Kakurina  Former Research Assistant
Cara Zampino  Former Research Assistant
Hannah Hamling Former Undergraduate Honors Student, NYU Grossman School of Medicine, Research Assistant
​Kristen Avallone  Former Undergraduate Honors Student
Careen Foord  Former Undergraduate Honors Student, Weill Cornell, Ph.D. Student
Hannah Grassie  Former Undergraduate Honors Student, University of Miami, Ph.D. Student
Allie Neeson  Former Undergraduate Honors Student, Tufts University, M.D. Student
Euan Prentis  Former Undergraduate Honors Student, University of Chicago, Ph.D. Student
Rachel Stollar Former Undergraduate Research Assistant 
Haoze Zhu Former Undergraduate Research Assistant, Donders Institute, Masters Student
Soad Albahar  Former Undergraduate Research Assistant
Anastasia Filimontseva  Former Undergraduate Research Assistant
Shivani Hiralall  Former Undergraduate Research Assistant
Zach Karas  Former Undergraduate Research Assistant 
Ali Libertella  Former Undergraduate Research Assistant
Faya Movchan  Former Undergraduate Research Assistant
Shraddha Nair  Former Undergraduate Research Assistant
Daryl Ocampo  Former Undergraduate Research Assistant, NYU, Assistant to the Chair of Psychology
Michael Parola  Former Undergraduate Research Assistant
Haniyyah Sardar  Former Undergraduate Research Assistant
Meral Abdel Shafy  Former Undergraduate Research Assistant
Lia Washington  Former Undergraduate Research Assistant, MIT Research Scholars Program
Jamie Greer  Former Summer Undergraduate Research Assistant, Harvard University, Ph.D. Student
Nora Keathley  Former Summer Undergraduate Research Assistant, Imagen, Clinical Research Coordinator
​​Leticia Wood  Former Summer Undergraduate Research Assistant, Duolingo, UX Researcher
​​Jimmy Wyngaarden Former Summer Research Assistant, Temple University, Ph.D. Student
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