2011-2012 Officers
Whitney Cade
wlcade @ memphis [dot] edu
Whitney Cade is a graduate student in the Department of Psychology at the University of Memphis. Working primarily in the Institute for Intelligent System, her primary interests include cognitive science and learning. Her specific interests include expert human tutoring, pedagogical strategies, intelligent tutoring systems, pedagogical agents, and the application of machine learning in educational software.
Vice-President/Webmaster/Secretary
awarlmnt @ memphis [dot] edu
Anne is a student in the School of Communication Sciences and Disorders studying human infant vocal development from a computational science perspective. She is advised by Kim Oller and Eugene Buder.
Anne Warlaumont
Research Coordinator
Amber Strainstrain.amber @ gmail [dot] comAmber Strain's primary research interests are in the areas of emotion in learning, self regulated learning, the effect of emotion on cognitive and metacognitive processes, and regulation of academic emotions. More specifically, she am interested in uncovering what kinds of emotion regulation strategies might be effective for regulating boredom, frustration, or confusion, and how these strategies might be taught to students.Treasurer
schtchns @ memphis [dot] edu http://madresearchlab.org/Folks/Sterling_Hutchinson.html
Sterling Hutchinson graduated from Northwestern University with a bachelor's in Cognitive Science in March 2010. She is currently pursuing a MS/PhD in experimental cognitive psychology under the direction and mentorship of Dr. Max Louwerse at the University of Memphis.
Her research interests are interdisciplinary and include topics such as psycholinguistics, semantic representation, cognitive neuroscience, embodied/symbolic cognition, and discourse processes. Sterling is currently developing experiments concerning semantic representation using behavioral and EEG methodologies.
Event Planner
Sterling Hutchinson
Blair Lehmanblair.lehman @ gmail [dot] com
Blair Lehman is a psychology doctoral student at the University of Memphis. She is advised by Art Graesser and Andrew Olney. Her main research interests are general areas of cognitive psychology, emotion, education, cognitive science, and intelligent tutoring systems. More specific interests include tutoring (human and computer), emotions during learning, affective computing, instructional methods, state standards and assessment, complex learning, and models of effective teaching.
Social Coordinator
Nia Dowellniadowell @ gmail [dot] com
Nia Dowell is a cognitive/experimental psychology graduate student at the University of Memphis. Nia is currently pursuing her MS/PhD under the direction and mentorship of Art Graesser. Her primary interests are in computational linguistics and affective sciences. More specific interest focuses on emotions, linguistic and discourse bases of political leadership, counterintelligence and terrorism research, deception detection, and social disequilibrium.
General Ambassador
Kyle Cheney
kcheney @ memphis [dot] eduA graduate student in psychology at the University of Memphis, Kyle Cheney is currently a graduate research assistant with a group who is investigating the effectiveness of ALEKS, an intelligent tutoring system, in teaching math to middle school students.
Computer Science Ambassador
Rodrigo Silva
baguda @ memphis [dot] eduBenjamin is a PhD student from the philosophy department at the University of Memphis. His research interests are in philosophy of mind and philosophy of science. His specific interests are in the philosophy of neuroscience, the phenomenology of affective experience, and enactive cognition. He studies under the mentorship of Shaun Gallagher.
rsilva @ memphis [dot] edu
https://umdrive.memphis.edu/rsilva/www/index.html
Philosophy Ambassador
Benjamin Aguda
