Graduate Students

Cognitive PhD Program Students

	Alyssa Blair Advisor: Goldman Email: ablair5@uic.edu knowledge acquisition and evaluation, computer-mediated communication, metacognition, conceptual change, and literary text interpretation
	Joshua Buffington Advisor: Morgan-Short Email: bffngtn2@uic.edu The contributions of long-term memory systems to second language acquisition, how differences in the content of foreign language instruction modulate reliance on declarative and procedural memory
	Candice Burkett Advisor: Goldman Email: cburke20@uic.edu science text comprehension, integration of multiple representations and multiple documents, self-regulated learning, metacognition, human-computer interaction and literary text interpretation
	Andriana Christofalos Advisor: Raney Email: achris29@uic.edu Hemispheric asymmetries in text processing, semantic access while reading texts with multiple interpretations, such as metaphors and ambiguous language
	Andrea Frankenstein Advisor: Leshikar Email: afrank27@uic.edu Cognitive aging, memory and aging, memory and future simulation
	Tim George Advisor: Wiley Email: tgeorg7@uic.edu The role of inhibitory control in creative generation; divergent thinking, metaphor, analogy
	Tricia Guerrero Advisor: Wiley Email: tguerr9@uic.edu Learning from Text, Education strategies and interventions which can be used to improve comprehension.
	Matt McCurdy Advisor: Leshikar Email: mmccur3@uic.edu Cognitive aging, Aging and Memory. Positive effects of aging. http://matthewmccurdy.wix.com/research
	Marta Mielicki Advisor: Wiley Email: mmieli2@uic.edu Mathematical problem solving and understanding, bilingualism
	Krista Miller Advisor: Raney Email: kmille47@uic.edu Figurative language processing, ambiguous language, reading
	Felix Pambuccian Advisor: Raney Email: fpambu2@uic.edu Figurative language processing, text comprehension, bilingualism
	Vannia A. Puig Rivera Advisor: Szpunar Email: vpuig@uic.edu The influence of positive and negative affect on the way people think about their/others future and the potential impact these thoughts have on behavior.
	César Riaño Rincón (Cesar Riano) Advisor: Raney Email: criano2@uic.edu Billingualism and its cognitive advantages, second language acquisition processes, and figurative language processing.
	David Sarmento Advisor: Wiley Email: dsarme2@uic.edu Multimedia learning, text-graphic integration, visualizations, judgment formation, decision making processes
	Sushmita Shrikanth Advisor: Szpunar Email: sshrik2@uic.edu The relationship between memory and prospection, and the applications of future thinking to other forms of social cognition (empathy, goal-pursuit)
	Allison Sklenar Advisor: Leshikar Email: asklen2@uic.edu Influence of emotion on memory and attention, cognitive aging, encoding strategies
	Erin Sovansky Winter Advisor: Ohlsson Email: esovan2@uic.edu How individual differences in executive functioning, such as working memory capacity, relate to insight problem solving and overcoming mental set/fixation
	Tim Sparer Advisor: Ohlsson Email: tspare2@uic.edu Belief revision, Conceptual Change, Restructuring, Insight problem solving, Computational modeling