Meet the lab cohort of Fall 2022!Cohort from left to right: Chloe Mondok, Keri Gladhill, Candice Stanfield-Wiswell, Martin Wiener, Iris Talebi, Alex Ma.
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MEET OUR CURRENT TEAM (A-Z)
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Martin is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at George Mason University, and the STAR Lab's Principal Investigator. He received his PhD in Psychology from University of Pennsylvania, his MS in Experimental/Theoretical Psychology from Villanova University, and his BA in Psychology from Rutgers University. In the past, he has worked at George Mason University as an Office of Naval Research Award postdoctoral fellow, worked with the Center for Functional Neuroimaging at University of Pennsylvania through the NIH Training Program in Neuroscience Neuroimaging Postdoctoral Fellowship program, received the Benjamin Franklin Predoctoral Fellowship at University of Pennsylvania, and worked as an AAAS Science & Technology Policy Fellow specializing in Big Data & Analytics for the National Science Foundation. Martin's research interests are temporal perception and action, spatial navigation, magnitude processing, individual differences in cognition and decision making, and musical and rhythmic processing.
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Audrey Corbet, BA
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Alex Ma, BA
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Keri is a PhD Candidate at George Mason University in the Cognitive and Behavioral Neuroscience program. She graduated summa cum laude with a BA in Psychology in 2016 from Shippensburg University in Pennsylvania. She then went on to receive an MS in Experimental Psychology in 2018 from Saint Joseph’s University in Philadelphia while working in a Sensation and Perception lab. While at Saint Joseph’s University she completed her Master’s Thesis on Context Effects on Visual Working Memory. Her current research interests include different aspects of time perception and the effects of movement parameters on time perception using various neurological methods (fMRI, EEG, TMS).
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Chloe is a PhD student in the Cognitive and Behavioral Neuroscience program at George Mason University. She recently graduated from Moravian University in Spring 2021 with a BS in Neuroscience and minors in Music and Art History. During her undergraduate, she studied the neuroprotective effects of curcumin and vitamin E in rat models of Parkinson’s Disease. Her research interests include time perception, specifically in regard to elements of music, such as rhythm.
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Candice (she/her) is a PhD Candidate in the Cognitive and Behavioral Neuroscience program at George Mason University. Her research interests include elucidating the neural mechanisms involved in human temporal, spatial, and magnitude (e.g., numerosity) processing as a pathway to understanding how we perceive and interact with our environment. Her work includes conducting research into how ocular behaviors impact different stages of magnitude processing, specifically the psychophysical effects of numerosity-time interactions. She graduated cum laude from Northern Kentucky University with a BA in Psychological Science and minor in Philosophy, and earned an MA in Psychological Research from Texas State University.
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Iris is an MA student in the Cognitive and Behavioral Neuroscience program at George Mason University. Her interests are focused on traumatic brain injury and mental illnesses and how these maladies affect individuals’ space and time perception. She also is currently working for the Howard Hughes Medical Institute at its Janelia Research Campus, where Iris works in the FLYEM team working to build a map of the drosophila brain. Iris obtained her degree in neuroscience and business management at George Mason University. She has hopes of entering into a Clinical Psychology PhD program focusing in neuropsychology.
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LAB ALUMNI & PAST TEAM MEMBERS
Postdoctoral Researchers
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Dr. Giovanna Mioni, PhD
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Graduate Research Assistants
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In 2022, Farah graduated with a PhD in Neuroscience from the Interdisciplinary Program at George Mason University. In the STAR lab, she studied how feedback modulates the perception of short visual interval durations using a modified time reproduction task. Her research interests centered on how we detect and compensate for errors in timing as we learn and how to assess the extent of human time awareness. Her dissertation work employed both behavioral measures and simultaneous fMRI-EEG to explore the neural regions and electrophysiological signatures associated with temporal metacognition, time learning, and improvements in time estimation. She earned a BS in Neuroscience and Behavioral Biology from Emory, and an MPH from Johns Hopkins. She has worked for the National Institutes of Health and the U.S. Medical Research Institute of Chemical Defense.
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Ayana Cameron, MA
In 2021, Ayana graduated with an MA in the Cognitive and Behavioral Neuroscience from George Mason University. As an active duty Air Force Officer, her experience and work has been focused on behavioral analysis for the U.S. Military, specifically looking at the cognitive processes and socio-cultural factors that influence decision-making. Ayana graduated from the Air Force Academy in 2014 where she received her BS in Behavioral Sciences. She has a broad interest in the cognitive basis of time and spatial awareness, particularly as they relate to music or auditory stimuli and decision-making.
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Colleen Gerrity, MAColleen graduated with an MA in Cognitive and Behavioral Neuroscience from George Mason University in 2022. Her research included the roles of cognitive load, attention, and memory on time perception. She also graduated with a BS in Psychology and a minor in Neuroscience from George Mason University in 2021. As an undergraduate, she completed the Honors in Psychology program, presenting a thesis on the effects of music and noise on the perception of time.
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Evie Robinson, MA
In 2019, Evie graduated with an MA in Cognitive and Behavioral Neuroscience from George Mason University. Currently, a PhD student at the University of Arizona, she is interested in asymmetries between the perception of spatial and temporal dimensions. Specifically, her research investigates spatial and temporal reproduction, time dilation, and spatial navigation. Her psychophysical techniques include EEG, TMS, fMRI, and virtual reality. Evie graduated magna cum laude with a BA in Psychology from the University of North Florida.
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Adam K. Shelp, MA
In 2019, Adam graduated with an MA in Cognitive and Behavioral Neuroscience from George Mason University, and is interested in time and time-related phenomena, fear and anxiety, and sensation and perception. Adam graduated cum laude with a BS in Psychology, with a double minor in biology and music, from Young Harris College in Georgia.
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Undergraduate Research Assistants
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Mohammad Alquraishi, BS
Mohammad received his Bachelor of Science in Psychology from George Mason University in the summer of 2019 with concentrations in Clinical and Cognitive Behavioral Neuroscience. Mohammad is broadly interested in time perception, so he took a class with Dr. Wiener on Brain and Music, and started helping the STAR lab graduate members with various projects. After graduating, he continued to work in the STAR lab as a post-bac research assistant. Recently he proposed and developed a temporal reproduction task in which he collected over 20 participants to explore the difference between visual and auditory modality for filled and empty intervals. He is also working with Human Emotions Research Laboratory (HERL) on developing a computerized treatment for inmates in the local jail population.
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Georgie Melrose, BA
Georgie (they/them) graduated from George Mason University in May 2019 with a BA in Psychology, and minor in Philosophy and Law. Their work in the STAR lab was part of the Honors Psychology program at GMU. They performed an fMRI meta-analysis on the overlap and distinction of numerosity and duration networks, in response to the theory of a Generalized Magnitude System. They also worked with the OSCAR GMU program on autonomous vehicles, developing a databases of information for future work in the AV lab, as well as writing a policy paper on making autonomous vehicles and transportation systems equipped for climate change.
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