Erie Boorman
Assisstant Professor, Department of Psychology
edboorman at ucdavis.edu

Seongmin A. Park
Assistant Project Scientist, Center for Mind and Brain and Center for Neuroscience
seongmin.a.park at gmail.com

Research Interests:
The aim of my research is to understand how brains generalize previous experiences, construct structural knowledge, and make a novel decision. My research approach combines behavioral economics, neuroimaging (fMRI and EEG), and computational modeling. 

Lily Zhang
Graduate Student​, Department of Psychology
lczhang at ucdavis.edu

Degree: B.A. (Colgate University) Double majors: Mathematical Economics & Neuroscience
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Research Interests: 
​Finding out the neural mechanisms of reinforcement learning and cognitive processes in decision-making with economic values.

Hobbies:  Pianist for the Chamber Music Ensemble at UC Davis.​

Sarah​ Sweigart
Graduate Student, Department of Psychology
ssweigart at ucdavis.edu​

Degree: Psychology and Economics​

Research Interests:
 Studying the neural mechanisms of value judgments, learning, risky decisions, and memory.​

Phillip Witkowski
Graduate Student, Department of Psychology
​pwitkowski at ucdavis.edu

Degree: B.A. Psychology / B.A. Anthropology

Primary Academic Interests: Casual learning, hierarchical learning, visual attention, visual cognition, social behavior, social cognition.
Secondary Academic Interest: science and technology studies, socio-cultural anthropology, evolutionary anthropology, philosophy of science, animal behavior, ecology.
Hobbies: Dungeons and Dragons, making apps that aren't really useful but are fun to have, drinking/making/talking about coffee, sci-fi shows (especially Stranger Things), and going to metal shows. 

Undergraduate Research Assistants:
Tomer Fidelman
Aaron Gorelik
Karan Gupta

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