Principal Investigator
 | Ben Motz, PhD(He rhymes with boats)Assistant Professor, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences ORCID: 0000-0002-0379-2184 |
Graduate Students
 | Ambar Narwal(He/Him) Graduate Student, Cognitive Science and Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences ORCID: 0000-0002-4107-9742 |
 | Olivia Gatto(She/Her) Graduate Student, Cognitive Science and Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences Focus: When do experts tend to show a novice how to do a task through demonstrations and modeling, and when do experts tend to tell a novice how to do a task through verbal rules? ORCID: 0009-0006-0301-3837 |
 | Mingjia Hu(He/Him) Graduate Student, Cognitive Science and Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences Focus: How can instance-based learning (i.e., learning by comparing solutions to similar past problems) be incorporated into traditional intelligent tutoring systems that use production rules? How can intelligent tutoring systems be designed to enhance self-regulated learning by increasing student motivation and encouraging more effective learning strategies? ORCID: 0000-0002-8680-6077 |
Undergraduate Research Assistants
 | Audrey Barriball(She/Her) Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences Focus: Clinical Psychological Science: Behavior, Motivation, and Learning ORCID: 0009-0009-8721-0265 |
 | Cole Miller(He/Him) Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences ORCID: 0009-0007-5184-7067 |
 | Kwame Dakwa(He/Him) Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences ORCID: 0009-0009-0546-1811 |
 | Sam McKinney(She/Her) Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences ORCID: 0009-0006-2718-5334 |
 | Manasa Gannamaneni(She/Her) Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences ORCID: 0009-0008-6408-1037 |
 | Vanessa Ridge(She/Her) Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences and Department of Criminal Justice ORCID: 0009-0001-1112-1516 |
 | Abigail Edwards(She/Her) Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences (Certificate in Neuroscience) ORCID: 0009-0003-2638-4364 |
 | Sullivan Watson(He/Him) Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences (Minor in French) ORCID: 0009-0009-6769-8865 |
Alumni
Can Meşe(He/Him) 2024-2025 Focus: Educational technology and gamification ORCID: 0000-0002-9759-7055 |
Kendall Moore(She/Her) 2023-2025 Focus: Clinical Psychology, Learning and Motivation ORCID: 0009-0000-8331-5021 |
Samuel Hu(He/Him) 2023-2025 Focus: Counseling Psychology and Mental Health ORCID: 0009-0003-0944-6738 |
Blake Zeigler(He/Him) 2024-2025 Focus: Cognitive Science, Machine Learning, AI, Software development ORCID: 0009-0001-8918-6379 |
Aisha Sirajuddin(She/Her) 2024-2025 Focus: Industrial and organizational psychology, specifically in decision making and performance optimization ORCID: 0009-0003-4942-0508 |
Hunter Butz(He/Him) 2022-2024 Focus: Industrial and organizational psychology, specifically in decision making and performance optimization ORCID: 0000-0002-2804-5337 |
Anna Chinni(They/Them) 2022-2024 Focus: Application of perception and cognition in visual art, and visual communication. ORCID: 0000-0003-2269-734X |
Abhinav Anand(He/Him) 2022-2023 Focus: Organizational and business psychology with a concentration in user experience and research design ORCID: 0000-0002-1043-8335 |
Anna Gladden(She/Her) 2022-2023 ORCID: 0000-0002-4543-0851 |
Morgan Wyatt(She/Her) 2022-2023 ORCID: 0009-0009-7796-4338 |