Associate Professor • Department of Psychology • UCSC • Santa Cruz, CA • 95060
mlwilson@ucsc.edu • 831.459.5767 • Room 412, Social Sciences 2


Grad Students and Post-Docs

Sabine Blaesi is a fourth year graduate student. She is interested in embodied cognition, the effects of working memory on attention, visual perception, and mimicry.
sblaesi@ucsc.edu
Jessy Lancaster is a fourth-year graduate student. Her research is on interpersonal coordination. Her past work includes representational momentum for human body movements.
Peter Cook, Third Year Graduate Student
Research Interests: Non-human-animal cognition, specifically problem solving, metacognition, and cognitive faculties subserving social interaction. Further interested in ecologically valid experimental paradigms, low-contact cognitive assays with experimentally naive animals, and cognitive field work. Currently working part-time at the seal and sea lion sensory systems and cognition lab at Long Marine Lab.

 


Alumni

Andrea Frick, Dr. phil., University of Zurich, Switzerland
Post-doc at UCSC Jan. 07 - May 08
Dr. Frick is now a post-doc in the Department of Psychology at Temple University in Philadelphia. Research interests: Cognitive Development: children and adults' intuitive knowledge and representations of physical events; embodied cognition; spatial thinking; mental transformations; dynamic mental imagery.

Kristy Lindemann, Ph.D., UCSC, 2007
Dr. Lindemann is an assistant professor in the Department of Psychology at St. Francis College in Brooklyn, NY. Her interests are in marine mammal cognition.


Research Assistants

Lab Spring 09

Lab Team, Fall 09
Mary Dunleavy, Danielle Brown


Lab Spring 09

Lab Team, Spring 09
Greg Lambert, Mary Dunleavy, Johnson Sun, Elizabeth Lyman, Jessica Sanchez, Toby Endo, Alyson Baker


Lab Spring 07

Lab Team, Fall 07
Danielle Odom, Erin Buonocore, Christopher Martinez


Lab Spring 07

Lab Team, Spring 07
Sondra Bitonti, Matthew Davidson, Danielle Odom, Martyna Citkowicz, Christian Aeschliman


Lab Winter 07

Lab Team, Winter 07
Daniel Leavitt, Matthew Davidson, Stefan Mangold, Sondra Bitonti, Martyna Citkowicz


Lab Fall 07

Lab Team, Fall 06
Top row: Jessy Lancaster, Kristy Lindemann, Christian Aeschliman, Sabine Blaesi
Bottom row: Daniel Leavitt, Golnaz Esfahani, Desiree Atkins, Brett Vollmer

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