Welcome!
This website is primarily focused on my research in the Cognition, Brain, and Behavior program at San Francisco State University.
About My Research
I am a second-year graduate student and a member of Dr.
Ezequiel Morsella's Action and Consciousness Lab. I am working
towards my M.A. in Psychology Research, and intend to continue my
education with a Ph.D. in Cognitive Science.
My primary interests
involve agency, volition, decision making, self-regulation (including
goal
selection,
motivation & willpower), action
production, ideomotor processing, and cognitive conflict. I am
also
interested in the ways that contemporary psycholinguistic findings can
inform theories about the nature of the interplay between conscious and
unconscious processing in human action production.
One of my studies focuses on the role of proprioceptive feedback in the sense of agency, another on the perceptual and motor components of subvocalization, and a third on the various processes that occur during the urge to quit. I am also involved in two electrophysiology studies (one on persisting beyond the point of perceived depletion, another on the various forms of cortical binding). In the future, I hope to use neuroimaging techniques to study the ACC and DLPFC.