Joanne Jao is a third year graduate student in cognitive science and psychology who uses fMRI and behavioral methods in her investigations. She is interested in many things including the development of multisensory integration, crossmodal processing, and sensorimotor experience, as well as the roles they play in perception and cognition. Recent awards include an NSF IGERT Training Grant for Fall 2011 through Summer 2013 and a Women in Science Award (2010).
Contact: rjjao@indiana.edu Personal Webpage: http://mypage.iu.edu/~rjjao
Julia Li is a third year graduate student in developmental psychology. She is interested in looking at how perceptual information influences children’s behaviors and motor development.
Contact: jxli@indiana.edu
Elizabeth Wakefield is a fifth year graduate student concentrating in developmental cognitive neuroscience. She is studying how the neural mechanisms underlying gesture perception and production change across development and determining the neural basis for the facilitative effect of gesture use on learning, using fMRI. Elizabeth had also conducted studies investigating how the brain processes music, depending on how the music has been learned by experts and novices.
Contact: emwakefi@umail.iu.edu
Felipe Munoz Rubke comes from Chile and is a first year graduate student in Cognitive Science. He is interested in the embodied cognition approach to the mind/body/environment phenomenon and has been highly influenced by the work of Francisco Varela, Gregory Bateson and Jean Piaget. He is starting to study the link between action and language systems in children in order to evaluate the role of premotor and motor cortices in concrete and abstract word-sentence comprehension.
Contact: lfmunoz@indiana.edu
