People

Lab Director

Dr. Sawa Senzaki

In this project, we are studying how children’s brain develop in early years. Children will wear a child-friendly EEG cap (in the picture), and watch some cartoons. We’ll also ask parents to join their children about telling stories about cartoons they watch. We will be recording children’s brainwaves. This is a collaborative project with Dr. Jason Cowell (Neuroscience Lab, UW-Green Bay).

Maddie Rundell

Maddie is a senior at UWGB with a major in Psychology, emphasis in Brain Behavior and Health, and a minor in Human Biology. Maddie is studying how early life stress and mild traumatic brain injury effect executive functioning and emotion regulation in adults. Maddie has been part of the Psychology and Neuroscience lab for the last year. After graduation she will be working as a Research Specialist at UW-Madison’s Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center.

Abby Wisneski

Abby is a junior at UW-Green Bay. She is majoring in Human Development and minoring in Human Biology. Abby just joined the Child lab as a research assistant this semester. She is very passionate about working with children and is excited to work in our child EEG lab.

Natalie Ehren

Natalie is a junior at UW-Green Bay with a major in psychology and minor in human biology. She has been a research assistant in the Psychology and Neuroscience lab for two years on both adult and child studies. Natalie is currently researching how early life stress factors affect emotional development and day-to-day functioning in children.

Alie Bahena

Alie is a senior at UWGB with a double major in Human Biology and Psychology. After graduating in May she is hoping to eventually pursue a PhD in clinical neuroscience. Alie has been a part of the Psychology and Neuroscience lab for the last three years, and she is excited to finish her undergraduate career in the lab.

Paige Anderson

Paige is a junior here at UW-Green Bay with a major in psychology and a minor in human development. She is currently a research assistant in the Psychology and Neuroscience Lab, where explores her interests in PTSD symptoms and effects in adults. Paige plans to go on to graduate school and delve more deeply into the neurological, social, emotional, and behavioral similarities between adults who experienced ongoing stressors and adults who experienced single-event stressors during their childhood.

Madeleine Corbin

Madeline is a senior with a Human Biology major and Psychology minor. She is a new research assistant to the Psychology and Neuroscience lab. Madeleine is interested in studying how concussions effect executive functions from a neuroscience perspective. Madeleine hopes to go on to graduate school to explore her neuroscience questions further.

Cory Rauch

Cory has been a research assistant to Dr. Cowell for the past 3 years. His primary research interest is decision making in the potentially ambiguous contexts of political ideology, morality and value judgments. Specifically, Cory’s work seeks to characterize significant contributing factors and their ontogeny. His most recent research project utilizes EEG methods to explore the relationship between gamma-band coherence and political ideology. Continuing adult research projects are focused on interactions between resource allocation decisions, executive function, and political ideology.

Matthew Kersting

Matthew studies the development of moral judgment and decision-making from a neuroscience perspective, specifically investigating components that propel individuals toward compassion and altruism, and the involvement of empathy.