Lillian Chang

B.S. – University of California San Diego, 2018, Cognitive Science: specialization in Neuroscience

Lillian graduated from UCSD in 2018 with a major in Cognitive Science specializing in Neuroscience, and a minor in Mathematics. There, she first became a research assistant in Professor Rafael Nunez's Embodied Cognition Lab to examine the generalizability of mathematical proofs. Lillian then spent the majority of her undergrad in the Systems Neuroscience Lab headed by Professor Douglas Nitz, examining the firing patterns of hippocampal network neurons during spatial navigation. In the year prior to joining the IPN, she joined Professor John Serences' Perception and Cognition Lab, where she examined the suppression of visual stimuli while developing the skills necessary to run EEG experiments independently. These diverse yet cumulative skills have shaped Lillian's current research interests to examine patterns of neural activity associated with certain learning disabilities, such as dyslexia and dyscalculia.