Dr. Hyojeong Kim

🦚 Postdoctoral Research Fellow

🎓 Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin

📩 hyojeongkim@utexas.edu

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.

Ziyao Zhang

🦚 Ph.D. student, Psychology (Year 4)

🎓 M.S., Lehigh University

🌐 Ziyao's personal website

📩 ziyaoz@utexas.edu

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. 

Caleb Jerinic-Brodeur

🦚 Ph.D. student, Psychology (Year 3)

🎓 B.S., Arizona State University

📩 cjerinic@utexas.edu

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.

Edward Leung

🦚 Ph.D. student, Neuroscience (Year 3)

🎓 B.S., B.A., University of Washington

📩 edjoeleung@utexas.edu

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.

Eva Lout

🦚 Ph.D. student, Psychology (Year 1)

🎓 B.S., Texas A&M University

📩 evalout@utexas.edu

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.

Alex Grattery

🦚 Ph.D. student, Clinical Psychology (Year 1)

Co-mentored by Dr. Sam Cooper

🎓 B.A., New College of Florida

📩 grattery@utexas.edu

I study the role that attention to threatening thoughts and mental images plays in maintaining state anxiety with the goal of developing better treatments for anxiety disorders, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and related disorders. I use cognitive psychology paradigms such as working memory tasks and eye tracking to manipulate and measure attention.

Amelia Canright

🦚 Lab Manager

Senior, Neuroscience

Amelia Canright

Senior, Neuroscience

Lab mentor: Caleb

Joined Fall 2023 |🏅2025 URF Fellowship

Claire Chiang

Senior, Neuroscience and Piano Performance

Lab mentor: Edward

Joined Fall 2023 |🏅2025 URF Fellowship

Emily Kolach

Senior, Neuroscience

Lab mentor: Ziyao

Joined Fall 2023

Jean Fan

🎓 B.S., Psychology, UT Austin

Lab mentor: Ziyao

Joined Summer 2024 |🏅2024 URF Fellowship

Nicole Kowalchuk

Senior, Human Biology

Lab mentor: Edward

Joined Fall 2024

Saylor Black

Senior, Neuroscience 

Lab mentor: Eva

Joined Spring 2025

Cindy Sanders

Junior, Behavioral and Social Data Sciences 

Lab mentor: Caleb

Joined Spring 2025

Eve Dominguez

Senior, Neuroscience

Joined Fall 2025

Kaeli Kampschmidt

Junior, Neuroscience

Joined Fall 2025

Dami Ogunkunle

Junior, Neuroscience

Joined Fall 2025