Thursday, January 14, 2021

December 2020 Graduates

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