Carlos Federico is a lab manager and graduate student who's research is focused on the top-down influence of knowledge formation on ambiguous information processing in the visual system. Specifically, Carlos is studying stereoscopic 3 dimensional processing using random dot stereograms. 

Current Memebers

Bella Benzaken is a lab manager and graduate researcher in the Mind, Brain, and Behavior program at SFSU. Her work explores higher-level cognition and basic learning mechanisms such as habituation, with a focus on the neural correlates of consciousness. She is also interested in how music influences decision-making, attention, learning, and cognitive control. 

Marisol is a second year graduate student in the Mind, Brain, and Behavior program. Their interests surround the interception between electrophysiological activity and decision-making and how it is affected by concepts surrounding morality. Their current research interests revolves the effects of decision-making based on moral dilemma questioning, while controlling for confounds such as stress.  . 

Lab Director

Joey Padilla is a graduate student researching the neural correlates of cross-modal sensory integration. Currently he is exploring how musical timbre interacts with object recognition, using a mix of behavioral and EEG methods 

Sean Chandler is a lab manager, graduate of the Mind, Brain, and Behavior program, and a full-time faculty lecturer at SFSU. His research explores the neural correlates of mental imagery vividness and cross-modal plasticity.  

Lily Byrd is a research asssistant and an undergraduate psychology major at SFSU. Byrd is primarily interested in researching neurotransmitters, neuroactivity, brain structures, and how drugs influence neurochemistry, neurophysiology, and behavior.