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 and in the Department of Psychology starting July 1, 2024. Graduate students and postdocs will… 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
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 undergraduate research assistant, Aditi Velgekar who has been awarded two conference travel grants! With the support of a Gateway Travel Grant and an Office of Undergraduate Research and Inquiry (OURI) Conference Grant , Aditi will attend The National… 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