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Author: Stephanie Leal

New paper published on the development of a new face-name memory task!

September 11, 2023Stephanie Leal Leave a Comment

Congratulations to Renae Mannion, NSF REU fellow and first author on the paper “A novel face-name mnemonic discrimination task with naturalistic stimuli”. Difficulty remembering faces and names is a common struggle for many people and gets more difficult as we… Continue Reading →

Congratulations to Dr. Eva Dicker on her successful dissertation defense!

September 11, 2023Stephanie Leal Leave a Comment

Congratulations to now Dr. Eva Dicker, a 4th year graduate student in the lab co-mentored by Dr. Stephanie Leal and Dr. Bryan Denny, as she successfully defended her dissertation titled “Let Me Count the Ways: Untangling Adaptive Emotion Polyregulation Across… Continue Reading →

New paper out from the lab examining antidepressants and memory!

September 8, 2023Stephanie Leal Leave a Comment

Congratulations to Taylor Phillips and Madelyn Castro, co-first authors on the paper “Perceived antidepressant efficacy associated with reduced negative and enhanced neutral mnemonic discrimination”. We found that individuals who reported a greater improvement in their depressive symptoms after taking antidepressants… Continue Reading →

Congratulations to Kayla Clark for successfully defending her Master’s Thesis!

August 9, 2023Stephanie Leal Leave a Comment

Kayla Clark, a rising third year graduate student in the lab, successfully defended her Master’s Thesis examining post-encoding music effects on mnemonic discrimination. Well done Kayla!

Bryant Polanco presents his work at the OURI Rice Summer Undergraduate Research Symposium!

July 30, 2023Stephanie Leal Leave a Comment

Congratulations to Bryant Polanco for presenting his work investigating differences in perceptual specificity across ethnic and cultural groups at the OURI Rice Summer Undergraduate Research Symposium! Great work!

Fun at the First Annual Leal Lab Writing Retreat!

July 30, 2023Stephanie Leal Leave a Comment

The Lab Lab embarked on our first writing retreat in Lake Livingston, TX on July 21-23, 2023. We had a blast and got lots of writing done! Looking forward to next summer’s writing retreat!

Hannah’s work featured in Rice News!

June 13, 2023Stephanie Leal Leave a Comment

Hannah Ballard, Rice Academy of Fellows Postdoctoral Scholar in the lab, has recently received an NIH NIA NRSA F32 award to study “Estrogen Declines with Menopause: Impacts on the Medial Temporal Lobe Network and Emotional Memory in Aging Females at… Continue Reading →

Congratulations to Leal Lab students and research assistants on their next career steps!

May 31, 2023Stephanie Leal Leave a Comment

Congratulations are in order for our past and current students and research assistants in the Leal Lab. Eva Dicker, 5th year graduate student, will be starting a tenure-track position at Seattle University in the Fall! As an Assistant Professor of… Continue Reading →

The Leal Lab takes on the 2023 International Conference on Learning and Memory!

May 31, 2023Stephanie Leal Leave a Comment

The Leal Lab recently presented at the International Conference on Learning and Memory (April 26-30). Fernanda, 2nd year graduate student in the lab, was awarded an NIH travel award. We had lots of fun!

Undergraduate RA Jacob Buergler wins first place poster at RURS!

May 31, 2023Stephanie Leal Leave a Comment

Jacob Buergler, 2nd year undergraduate and research assistant in the Leal Lab, received first place for his poster presentation at the Rice Undergraduate Research Symposium. His presented his work, in which he found that emotion dysregulation was associated with greater… Continue Reading →

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