Principal Investigator
![]() | Ben Motz, PhD(He rhymes with boats)Assistant Professor, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences ORCID: 0000-0002-0379-2184 |
Graduate Students
![]() | Ambar Narwal(He/Him) Graduate Student, Cognitive Science and Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences ORCID: 0000-0002-4107-9742 |
![]() | Olivia Gatto(She/Her) Graduate Student, Cognitive Science and Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences Focus: When do experts tend to show a novice how to do a task through demonstrations and modeling, and when do experts tend to tell a novice how to do a task through verbal rules? ORCID: 0009-0006-0301-3837 |
Undergraduate Research Assistants
![]() | Audrey Barriball(She/Her) Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences Focus: Clinical Psychological Science: Behavior, Motivation, and Learning ORCID: 0009-0009-8721-0265 |
![]() | Cole Miller(He/Him) Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences ORCID: 0009-0007-5184-7067 |
![]() | Kwame Dakwa(He/Him) Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences ORCID: 0009-0009-0546-1811 |
![]() | Sam McKinney(She/Her) Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences ORCID: 0009-0006-2718-5334 |
![]() | Manasa Gannamaneni(She/Her) Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences ORCID: 0009-0008-6408-1037 |
![]() | Vanessa Ridge(She/Her) Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences and Department of Criminal Justice ORCID: 0009-0001-1112-1516 |
![]() | Abigail Edwards(She/Her) Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences (Certificate in Neuroscience) ORCID: 0009-0003-2638-4364 |
![]() | Sullivan Watson(He/Him) Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences (Minor in French) ORCID: 0009-0009-6769-8865 |
Alumni
Mingjia Hu(He/Him) Focus: How can instance-based learning (i.e., learning by comparing solutions to similar past problems) be incorporated into traditional intelligent tutoring systems that use production rules? ORCID: 0000-0002-8680-6077 |
Can Meşe(He/Him) 2024-2025 Focus: Educational technology and gamification ORCID: 0000-0002-9759-7055 |
Kendall Moore(She/Her) 2023-2025 Focus: Clinical Psychology, Learning and Motivation ORCID: 0009-0000-8331-5021 |
Samuel Hu(He/Him) 2023-2025 Focus: Counseling Psychology and Mental Health ORCID: 0009-0003-0944-6738 |
Blake Zeigler(He/Him) 2024-2025 Focus: Cognitive Science, Machine Learning, AI, Software development ORCID: 0009-0001-8918-6379 |
Aisha Sirajuddin(She/Her) 2024-2025 Focus: Industrial and organizational psychology, specifically in decision making and performance optimization ORCID: 0009-0003-4942-0508 |
Hunter Butz(He/Him) 2022-2024 Focus: Industrial and organizational psychology, specifically in decision making and performance optimization ORCID: 0000-0002-2804-5337 |
Anna Chinni(They/Them) 2022-2024 Focus: Application of perception and cognition in visual art, and visual communication. ORCID: 0000-0003-2269-734X |
Abhinav Anand(He/Him) 2022-2023 Focus: Organizational and business psychology with a concentration in user experience and research design ORCID: 0000-0002-1043-8335 |
Anna Gladden(She/Her) 2022-2023 ORCID: 0000-0002-4543-0851 |
Morgan Wyatt(She/Her) 2022-2023 ORCID: 0009-0009-7796-4338 |











