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Rose Lab, October 2020

From left to right: Yuki Yoshioka ('21); Lauren Crowe ('23); Cheick Diallo ('21);

Jori Waner, B.A. ('19, Post-Baccalaureate Research Fellow); Nathan Rose, Ph.D. (Lab P.I.);

Isaiah Metcalf ('22); Zengbo Xie, B.S. (Post-Baccalaureate Research Fellow);

Bianca Widjaja ('23); Joshua Rhilinger ('21); Chang-Mao Chao, Ph.D. (Post-Doctoral Research Fellow)

Current Members

Nathan Rose

~~Lab Director, Assistant Professor~~

2016-present: Assistant Professor, Cognition, Brain & Behavior, University of Notre Dame, USA

2015-2016: Research Fellow, Cognition & Emotion Research Centre, Australian Catholic University, Melbourne, Australia

2013-2015: Research Associate, Postle Lab, Department of Psychiatry, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA

2010-2013: Postdoctoral Fellow, Craik & Buchsbaum Labs, Rotman Research Institute of Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care and the Department of Psychology, University of Toronto, Canada

2010: Ph.D., Psychology, Behavior, Brain, and Cognition Program, Washington University in St. Louis, USA

2007: M.A., Psychology, Behavior, Brain, and Cognition Program, Washington University in St. Louis, USA

2003: B. S., Cum Laude, Psychology, Aquinas College, Grand Rapids, USA

Chang-Mao Chao

~~Post-Doctoral Research Fellow~~

Hometown: Taipei, Taiwan

Mao graduated from National Central University with a bachelor's degree in Biology and obtained a Ph.D. in psychology from Durham University. His research interests include learning and memory, attention, and working memory.

Publications:

1. CM Chao, A. McGregor, D.J. Sanderson, (2020). Uncertainty and predictiveness modulates attention in human predictive learning. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General (in press).

2. P. Tseng, HY. Chiau, CL. Liu, TY Hsu, CF Chang, CM Chao, WK. Liang, CH. Juan (2012). Neural mechanisms of implicit visual probability learning. Chinese Journal of Psychology, 54(1), 115-131.

3. CM Chao, P. Tseng, TY Hsu, JH Su, OJL. Tzeng, DL. Hung, NG Muggleton, CH. Juan (2011). Predictability of saccadic behaviors is modified by transcranial magnetic stimulation over human posterior parietal cortex. Human Brain Mapping, 32(11), 1961-72.

Jori Waner

~~Post-Baccalaureate Research Fellow~~

Hometown: Burr Ridge, IL

Jori graduated from Notre Dame with a Bachelor of Arts in Neuroscience and Behavior and a minor in Computing and Digital Technologies in January 2019. She is planning on attending a clinical neuropsychology PhD program following her completion of the Post-Baccalaureate Program for Counseling and Psychology Professions through UC Berkeley Extension. Her research interests include investigating the biomarkers and lifestyle factors that contribute to cognitive aging and age-related neurodegenerative diseases, as well as testing the efficacy of pharmacological and non-pharmacological interventions for different types of dementia.

Presentations (in this lab):

Rhilinger, J.P., Waner, J.L., & Rose, N.S. (2020, November). Revealing the causal roles of visual and frontal cortex in recovering latent visual working memories with non-invasive brain stimulation. 5-minute presentation given at Psychonomic Society 61st Annual Meeting; 2020 November 19; Online.

Waner, J.L., Rhilinger, J.P., Metcalf, I.J., & Rose, N.S. (2020, June). Trigger My Memory: How rTMS to visual and frontal cortex impacts latent visual working memory representations. 12-minute presentation given at the Virtual Working Memory Symposium; 2020 June 4; Online.

Zengbo Xie

~~Post-Baccalaureate Research Fellow~~

Hometown: Harbin, China

Zengbo graduated from University of Wisconsin-Madison and received B.S. degrees in psychology and neurobiology. His research interests include sensory integration, memory, and decision-making. He is planning to further pursue his research in graduate school after the completion of his post-baccalaureate program. In his leisure time, Zengbo likes to read, watch movies, and play games.