Omar Carrasco Omar is a master’s student in experimental psychology. In the lab he has worked on studies investigating how different learning techniques impact older adults’ recall of novel information. He is currently working on a series of studies exploring the mechanisms of event cognition and the relationship between event cognition and temporal perception. His goal after obtaining his master’s degree is to pursue a Ph.D. in cognitive psychology.
Christian Ruiz My name is Christian Ruiz. I am a first year PhD student working in the Cognition and Aging Lab. My research interest, broadly speaking, are the effects on attention with aging and the perception of time. I am currently working on a project to assess the relative impacts of sensory/peripheral vs. central/complexity effects to intra-individual variability (IIV) and analyze if they can determine which factor may be more sensitive to changes with normal and pathological aging. I earned my Bachelor in Psychology from The University of Texas at El Paso, and look forward to the continuation of my education and the contributions that we can make to the field of psychology.
Hayden White Hayden is a second-year graduate student in the Social, Cognitive, & Neuroscience program. His primary research interests are in cross-modal recognition; how objects are recognized when two competing or similar modalities or senses both have information about one or multiple objects. Other interests include attention-entrainment, age-related differences in cognition, and attentional control. He is finishing up his first-year project on cross-modal differences in auditory and visual recognition and beginning his thesis as an extension of his first-year project. He hopes to continue his pursuit of a Ph.D. and to one day work as a researcher and professor in a university or college campus.