lab members
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Darinka Trübutschek, B.S. Lab Manager
Associate in Research
phone 919.627.8049
email darinka.truebutschek[AT]
office C03D, LSRC
mail Box 90999, CCN
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about Darinka received her B.S. in Psychology from Washington and Lee University, VA in May 2010. She is now participating in the BIAC post-baccalaureate fellowship program and working full-time before hoping to begin a PhD program in clinical psychology in the fall of 2012.
research interests
Darinka’s research interests cover a broad range of topics related to the relationship between emotion and psychopathology. Currently, she is intrigued by the role of emotion regulation for the onset and maintenance of psychological disorders. She is especially interested in the interplay between deficits in emotion regulation and attentional control in individuals with ADHD.
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Franziska Korb, Ph.D. Post-Doctoral Fellow
email franziska[DOT]korb
office C03D, LSRC
mail Box 90999, CCN
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about Franziska received her Pre-Diploma (B.Sc.) and Diploma (M.Sc.) in Psychology at the University of Leipzig, Germany. For the research she conducted at the Max Planck Institute of Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences Leipzig she earned her PhD in Psychology from the University of Leipzig. Before coming to Duke she worked as a postdoctoral research associate at the Neurology Department of the University Clinic Cologne.
research interests
Franziska's overall scientific objective is to understand the functional neuroanatomical foundations of adaptive goal-directed behavior. In particular, she is interested in studying the behavioral and neural correlates of cognitive processes involved in determining when adjustments are needed to attain goals and how such adjustments are implemented. Within this line of research, a special interest is whether and to what degree anatomically distinct brain regions (not limited to the prefrontal cortex) might support functionally distinct control processes depending on contextual demands. Further, she is especially interested in the dynamics of cognitive control, that is, how brain regions involved in control sub-processes communicate with each other and interact with other functional systems in the service of behavioral adaptation.
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Joseph King, M.Sc. Associate in Research
office C03D, LSRC
mail Box 90999, CCN
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about Joe received a B.A. in Psychology from San Francisco State University before earning his M.Sc. in Psychology at the Humboldt University in Berlin, Germany. During
his studies in Berlin,
Joe worked as a research assistant at the Charité
University Clinic for Psychiatry. After
completing his master’s thesis on cognitive control processes in adult ADHD, he
began graduate studies at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain
Sciences under the supervision of Dr. Markus Ullsperger in Leipzig, Germany. Joe will soon defend his dissertation on the neural implementation of behavioral
adjustments following errors. Joe joined the Egner Lab in January 2010 as an
Associate in Research.
research interests
Joe’s
research interests tend to fall under the broad umbrella of cognitive control. He is
particularly interested in how the brain might “know” when control
adjustments are needed and to what degree control serves to suppress inappropriate
thoughts and actions or facilitate appropriate ones. To test the hypothesis
that the neural mechanisms supporting flexible, adaptive behavior depend
largely on whether control is recruited and executed retrospectively
or prospectively, Joe studies individual differences in experimental task
performance with functional magnetic
resonance imaging (fMRI) and electroencephalography (EEG). In the Egner Lab, Joe aspires to further test these and related hypotheses with transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS).
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Jiefeng Jiang, M.S. Graduate Student
email jiefeng[DOT]jiang
mail Box 90999, CCN
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about Jiefeng is now a PhD student in the cognitive neuroscience program at Duke University. He received his Master's degree in pattern recognition and intelligent system at Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Before that, he earned his Bachelor's degree in computer science at Zhejiang University, China.
research interests
Jiefeng's research interests include vision and attention, and particularly the interaction between the two systems. He is also interested in analysis methods of brain imaging, and applying mathematical models and computer algorithms to the research in cognitive neuroscience.
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Anastasia Kiyonaga, M.S.Ed. Graduate Student
email anastasia[DOT]kiyonaga
office C03D, LSRC
mail Box 90999, CCN
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about Anastasia got her B.A. in Psychology from the University of Virginia in 2003. After spending several years working with homeless women on the beaches of Santa Monica, she moved back across the country to pursue a Master’s degree in Human Development at the University of Pennsylvania. There she also worked as a research assistant in the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience doing mostly behavioral studies of attention and working memory, and of the flexibility of those functions. She’s now a doctoral student in the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience.
research interests
Anastasia hopes to build off of her earlier studies in attention and working memory, extending and enhancing her understanding using imaging techniques, and especially focusing on the role of attention and working memory in moment-to-moment modifications in cognitive control, and the interactions between all of these capacities.
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Emma Wu Dowd, M.Sc.2
Graduate Student
email emma[DOT]wudowd
office C03D, LSRC
mail Box 90999, CCN
about
Emma received a BA in Linguistics from Harvard University
before earning an MSc in Psychology from University College London and
an MSc in Neuroscience from King's College London. Her
previous research has included psycholinguistics, animal models of
depression, and visual memory. She is now a PhD student in the Cognitive
Neuroscience Program at Duke and currently rotating in the Egner lab.
research interests
Coming soon!
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Emma Wu Dowd, M.Sc.2 Graduate Student
email emma[DOT]wudowd
office C03D, LSRC
mail Box 90999, CCN
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about Emma received a BA in Linguistics from Harvard University
before earning an MSc in Psychology from University College London and
an MSc in Neuroscience from King's College London. Her
previous research has included psycholinguistics, animal models of
depression, and visual memory. She is now a PhD student in the Cognitive
Neuroscience Program at Duke and currently rotating in the Egner lab.
research interests
Coming soon!
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Hannah Gold Undergraduate Research Assistant
email hannah[DOT]gold
mail Box 90999, CCN
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about Hannah is a senior at Duke University majoring in neuroscience and philosophy.
research interests
Hannah is interested in the dissociation and interaction between conscious and unconscious processing. She is focusing on cognitive control at the Egner lab.
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alumni
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Sora Ely, B.S. email sely[AT]tulane[DOT]edu
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about Sora finished her B.S. in Psychology at Duke University in May 2009, along with a minor in Chemistry and certificate in Neuroscience. She worked full-time as Lab Manager/Associate in Research in the Egner Lab in an interim year before medical school, and is now part of Tulane's School of Medicine class of 2014.
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Jim Monti, B.S. |
about Jim was the Research Technician and all-round go-to guy in the Egner Lab's first incarnation, at Northwestern University. He now is a Psychology graduate student in Neil Cohen's lab at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
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