Big news! The lab is moving to UCLA! Dr. Leal will be starting as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Integrative Biology & Physiology starting July 1, 2024. Graduate students and postdocs will primarily remain at Rice for the… Continue Reading
Jacob presented a poster at the Rice University Social Sciences Undergraduate Research Symposium examining emotion regulation strategies during encoding differentially impacting subsequent memory. Jacob won Best Research Methodology for his poster presentation! Congratulations Jacob!
Congratulations to Fernanda Morales-Calva, first author on the paper “Emotional modulation of memorability in mnemonic discrimination”. Fernanda is a 3rd year graduate student in the lab, and this is her first 1st author publication. Although elements such as emotion may… Continue Reading
Congratulations to graduate student Fernanda Morales-Calva for being awarded a James T. Wagoner ’29 Foreign Study Scholarship! The Wagoner Foreign Study Scholarship provides students the opportunity to conduct research abroad for a minimum of four weeks to one year. Read… Continue Reading
Congratulations to graduate student Fernanda Morales-Calva who has been awarded a Conference Fellowship to attend the 4th Latinos & Alzheimer’s Symposium in San Diego, CA! Fernanda will be presenting her work on Investigating Differences in Memory Specificity in Latinos and… Continue Reading
The Leal Lab has partnered with the Aspenwood Company which owns 13 retirement homes in the Houston area (https://www.theaspenwoodcompany.com/) to hold a lecture series for the residents on topics related to the aging brain. Dr. Stephanie Leal and her team,… Continue Reading
Third year graduate students Kayla Clark and Fernanda Morales-Calva earned their Master’s Degrees today in Psychological Sciences at Rice University! They will continue on to earn their PhD. Kayla successfully defended her Master’s thesis on “Post-Encoding Music Effects on Mnemonic… Continue Reading
Congratulations to second year graduate student Madelyn Castro for winning first place at the 29th Annual UT Health Neuroscience Poster Session! Madelyn presented findings from her first-author paper “Perceived antidepressant efficacy associated with reduced negative and enhanced neutral mnemonic discrimination”… Continue Reading
The Walk to End Alzheimer’s disease, hosted by the Alzheimer’s Association, was held at the University of Houston on Saturday, November 4th. Graduate student Lorena Ferguson has organized the team for the past several years. We had a great time… Continue Reading
Congratulations to Brandon Hayes, first author on the paper “Emotion regulation during encoding reduces negative and enhances neutral mnemonic discrimination in individuals with depressive symptoms”. Brandon was an undergraduate research assistant when working on this study, and he is now… Continue Reading