About

I am a postdoctoral scholar working with Ralph Adolphs at California Institute of Technology. I use eye-tracking and functional MRI methods to study how attention facilitates social cognition and how it is affected in autism spectrum disorder. I received my PhD in Cognitive Psychology and Neuroscience from Princeton University, where I worked with Sabine Kastner in the Neuroscience of Attention & Perception Laboratory. My PhD work investigated the neural basis of the development of visual selective attention in middle childhood (roughly age 6 to 12) with a focus on interactions between attention and various factors that also develop significantly within the age range, such as sensory processing and higher-order cognitive skills.