Erika K Hussey

Erika K Hussey, B.A.

(Ph.D. in progress)
  • Position:
    Graduate Student - Ph.D.

    Neuroscience and Cognitive Science

    Psychology

    University of Maryland, College Park (College Park, MD)

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  • Advisor:

    Michael Dougherty

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  • Degrees:
     
    Ph.D. (in progress), Neuroscience and Cognitive Science, University of Maryland, College Park (College Park, MD)
     
    B.A., Psychology, Rutgers University (New Brunswick, NJ)
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  • Past Advisors:
     
    Carolyn Rovee-Collier (as Undergraduate Student)
     
    Arnold Glass (as Undergraduate Student)
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  • Research:
    I'm interested in attention and memory, judgment and decision making, multisensory integration, signal processing, neuroimaging, and language processing, as well as the integration of each of these topics.

    Attention & Memory
    My research on attention and memory involves the application of both computational models of memory and neuroimaging and electrophysiology methods to understand the relationship between long-term memory, working memory, and controlled attention, and how mood-states affect these processes. Specific research questions include: (1) What are the psychological variables that underpin how people decide to terminate memory search? (2) What is the effect of affect and working memory on visual information search?

    Inductive inference, judgment, and decision making
    My research on inductive inference and judgment is aimed at understanding both how people generate explanations of data, and the influence of these explanations on probability judgment, risky behavior, and language comprehension. Specific research questions include: (1) What is the effect of working memory capacity (and, therefore retrieval processes) on probability judgment?, (2) What are the cognitive predictors of risk-seeking behavior?, (3) What are the psychological variables that influence the means by which language is understood in ambiguous situations?

    Multisensory Integration
    My research on multisensory integration involves the application of neuroimaging and electrophysiology along with behavioral methods to elucidate the influences of cross-modal interaction on attention and priming. Specific research questions include: (1) What are the effects of cross-modal priming on mental processes as indicated by reaction time and event-related potentials?, (2) Which, if any, modalities serve as modulators of other modalities?, (3) How do the answers to these aforementioned questions relate to cognitive theories of memory and attention?

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  • Other Experience:
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  • Honors:

    2008-present National Science Foundation IGERT: Biological and Computational Foundations of Language Diversity Program

    2008 Honorable Mention, National Science Foundation GRFP

    2007-2008 Paul Robeson Scholar

    2007 Marilyn L. Shaw Award

    2006 Aresty Undergraduate Research Award

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Erika Hussey's Posters and Presentations (4)

  • Cognitive foundations of risk perception and risk-seeking behavior (poster)

    Erika K Hussey & Michael Dougherty

    Society for Judgment and Decision Making; 11/2008
  • Low-level audio-visual interactions in MEG during spatial localization (poster)

    Pangelinan, M., Hussey, E., Wilson, S., Schlappal, A., Zhao, C., & Poeppel, D.

    Society for Neuroscience; 11/2008
  • Evidence for All-or-None Feature-Level Learning of Novel Shape Trigrams (poster)

    Erika K Hussey

    Aresty Undergraduate Research Symposium; 04/2007
  • Repetition Blindness: Multiple Phenomena with Multiple Causes (presentation)

    Brill, G., Glass, A. G., Rashid, H., & Hussey, E

    Eastern Psychological Association; 03/2006

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