Rising 5th year graduate student in the lab, Kayla Clark, recently published her first first-author publication titled “Fine-Tuning the Details: Post-encoding Music Differentially Impacts General and Detailed Memory.” Music can effectively induce emotional arousal, which is associated with the release… Continue Reading
Congratulations to the class of 2025 graduates. We will miss you and are so proud of you!
Congratulations to Lorena Ferguson who succesfully defended her doctoral dissertation looking at the Behavioral and Neural Correlates of Emotional Memory in Retirement and Late Life Neuropsychiatric Conditions. We are all so proud of you, Dr. Ferguson!
Congratulations to Madelyn Castro for successfully defending her masters thesis AND for being awarded the 2025 Laughery Award for the Best Master’s Thesis in Psychology! We are all so proud of you!
On a mission to connect science with the community, senior undergraduate research assistant Bryant Polanco recently gave al lecture to residents at The Village of River Oaks, a local senior living facility from the Aspenwood Company. His talk, “How Our… Continue Reading
Congratulations to Angie Cordova for presenting her research at the NSF REU Closing ceremony! Angie was one of eight REU scholars selected from a pool of over 100 applicants for the REU Site hosted at Rice’s Psychological Sciences department. Angie… Continue Reading
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 Aditi Velgekar, undergaduate research assistant in the lab, who presented a poster at The National Conference on Undergraduate Research (NCUR) in Long Beach, CA. Aditi shared her work on the development of a memorability-based mnemonic discrimination task, work… Continue Reading