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Welcome

Our work is highly collaborative in nature. This means that the people listed below are a subset of all the excellent individuals that make our research possible.

The Postdoctoral Fellow

Xinger Yu, Ph.D.

Xinger’s research interests are focused on how attention is controlled by memory and the nature of the representations that we use to point our selective mechanisms around our visual world. Xinger is learning to record EEG, analyze the event-related potentials, and perform tDCS (transcranial Direct-Current Stimulation) to understand the neural mechanisms underlie these cognitive abilities.

Click here for her Google Scholar page

The Graduate Student

Seth Marx

Seth is an undergraduate student with a talent for programming and self-starting. He has been working on projects looking at the relationship between memory and attention. We are currently trying to convince Seth to go to grad school because he’s excellent, but he’s also interested in working out in the world.

The Undergraduate Students working on Honors Theses

Gengshi Hu

Gengshi is a research assistant in the Woodman Brain Lab. He is an undergraduate who will be completing an honors thesis by the spring of 2025. He is current collecting data in brain stimulation experiments in which he programmed his own memory tasks. Gengshi hopes to apply to PhD programs after completing his undergraduate degree, and since he is driven and smart, we all think he will be an excellent cognitive scientist!

Amy Stevens

Amy is an undergraduate at Vanderbilt, and a critical part of our women’s tennis team! Amy comes to Vanderbilt from Australia. Meaning that almost everyone in the lab from the other hemisphere! Amy is balancing the demands of being a world-class athlete with passion for cognitive neuroscience. Currently, Amy is preparing to study whether it is possible to improve complex task performance using brain stimulation.