The Department of Psychology would like to congratulate the most recent group of graduate students (Atilgan, Jiang, and Matveeva) that have completed their long journey to a PhD.
Nilsu Atilgan
Area: CAB
Advisors: Sheng He, Gordon Legge
Dissertation: Visual Constraints on Reading in Normal Vision, Low Vision and Dyslexia
Shengyu Jiang
Area: QPM
Advisors: Chun Wang, Niels Waller
Dissertation: On-The-Fly Parameter Estimation Based on Item Response Theory in Item-based Adaptive Learning Systems
Tatyana Matveeva
Area: CAB
Advisor: Jonathan Gewirtz
Dissertation: Relapse to opioids facilitated by witnessing the distress of another is mediated by the activity of oxytocin: a preclinical model of the neural substrates of the relationship between secondary trauma and addiction