Our Founders
Duane G. Watson, PhD.
Duane is a Professor of Psychology and Human Development at Vanderbilt University. He studies the cognitive processes that underlie language production and language comprehension.
Ayanna K. Thomas, PhD.
Ayanna K. Thomas is the Dean of Research in Arts and Sciences at Tufts University, who studies memory distortion and age-related changes in cognition. Ayanna is Caribbean-American and a first generation United States citizen.
Alejandro Lleras, PhD.
Alejandro is a Professor of Psychology, Charles Eriksen Professorial Scholar of Psychology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign who focuses on visual attention and distraction.
Jean E. Fox Tree, PhD.
Jean is a Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Santa Cruz, who specializes in psycholinguistics.
Governing Board
Mayte Alonso, Student
Mayte is an undergraduate student in Psychology at New Mexico State University, where she is a research assistant in a cognitive psychology lab.
Arturo Hernandez, PhD.
Arturo is a Professor of Psychology at the University of Houston, who focuses on the neural bases of bilingualism.
Jennifer Kubota, Ph.D.
Jennifer Kubota is an assistant professor and co-director of the Impression Formation Social Neuroscience Lab in the Departments of Psychological and Brain Sciences and Political Science and International Relations at the University of Delaware.
Ethan Kutlu, PhD.
Ethan is an Assistant Professor of Linguistics and Psychology at the University of Iowa. His research focuses on the diversity of speech and its perception.
Belem López, PhD.
Belem is an external Health Scientist Administrator (Program Director) at the NIH*. Previously, Dr. López was an Associate professor at The University of Texas who specializes in bilingualism and language brokering.
*Dr. López, NIH is serving in a personal capacity.
Jared Medina, PhD.
Jared is an Associate Professor of Psychological & Brain Sciences at the University of Delaware, who is an expert in how the brain represents our bodies and space.
Tori Peña, PhD.
Tori is a Postdoctoral Associate at Stony Brook University working with Doctors Suparna Rajaram and Bonita London. Her work examines how memories and future projections are shaped in social situations.
Marianne Lloyd, PhD.
Marianne is a Professor of Psychology at Seton Hall University, who focuses on memory errors and ways they can be avoided.