🦚 Associate Professor
Departments of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of Texas at Austin
Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Dell Medical School
Center for Learning & Memory, Center for Perceptual Systems
🦚 Director, Interdisciplinary Neuroscience Program
🦚 Area Head, Cognition, Perception, & Brain
🎓 Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison | 📝 Jarrod's CV
🦚 Postdoctoral Research Fellow
🎓 Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin
My research centers on how the brain manipulates information to serve goal-directed behaviors. My projects explore how different cognitive strategies for removing thoughts from mind lead to changes in their memory representations.
🦚 Ph.D. student, Psychology (Year 5)
🎓 M.S., Lehigh University
My main interest lies in the interaction between memory and attention. Specifically, I am interested in how attentional control shapes memory representations and how internal representations influence ongoing processes.
🦚 Ph.D. student, Psychology (Year 4)
🎓 B.S., Arizona State University
I study how we control what we remember (and forget!), especially how emotions impact this process in the brain. Using a mix of brain imaging and behavioral experiments, I explore why memory control sometimes fails and how we can get better at it.
🦚 Ph.D. student, Neuroscience (Year 4)
🎓 B.S., B.A., University of Washington
I’m intrigued by how the conceptual semantics of information influences working memory. Specifically, I’m exploring how the meaning of information impacts our ability to control what remains in our mind and what we can discard.
🦚 Ph.D. student, Clinical Psychology (Year 2)
Co-mentored by Dr. Sam Cooper
🎓 B.A., New College of Florida
I study how attention to threatening thoughts contributes to state anxiety, using cognitive psychology paradigms such as working memory tasks and eye tracking to manipulate and measure attention. My goal is to develop more effective treatments for anxiety, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and related conditions.
I’m fascinated by how visual working memory and attention work together to help us make sense of the ever-changing world around us. I explore how we store, protect, and update visual information in memory, and how this shapes what we remember long-term.
🦚 Lab Manager
Senior, Neuroscience
Senior, Neuroscience
Lab mentor: Caleb
Joined Fall 2023 |🏅2025 URF Fellowship
Senior, Neuroscience and Piano Performance
Lab mentor: Edward
Joined Fall 2023 |🏅2025 URF Fellowship
Senior, Neuroscience
Lab mentor: Ziyao
Joined Fall 2023
Senior, Human Biology
Lab mentor: Edward
Joined Fall 2024
Senior, Neuroscience
Lab mentor: Eva
Joined Spring 2025
Junior, Behavioral and Social Data Sciences
Lab mentor: Caleb
Joined Spring 2025
Senior, Neuroscience
Joined Fall 2025
Junior, Neuroscience
Joined Fall 2025
Junior, Neuroscience
Joined Fall 2025
Sophomore, Plan II
Joined Fall 2025
Junior, Neuroscience
Joined Fall 2025