Learning Lab

Kayla McComb
Ph.D. Student

Kayla is a Ph.D. student who studies musical and linguistic development. She is particularly interested in how environmental musical experience impacts infant vocalizations. Outside of the lab, Kayla enjoys playing with her puppy, cooking, and writing and listening to music.

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Lara Bolourchian
Undergraduate Student

Lara is an undergraduate student majoring in Psychology and minoring in Criminology. Lara loves working with kids. In her free time, she loves volunteering, reading, and hanging out with her dogs and sister.

Danielle Bossom
Undergraduate Student

Danielle is an undergraduate student majoring in Psychology and Family & Human Services. Danielle aims to attend graduate school for child or school psychology. In her free time, Danielle loves exploring new areas, listening to music, and being around the people she loves.

Claudia Clark
Undergraduate Student

Claudia is an undergraduate student majoring in Psychology and Neuroscience with minors in Chemistry and Spanish. Outside the lab, Claudia is part of Greek life and the club tennis team. In her free time, Claudia loves to try new restaurants, spend time with friends, and go for walks.

Rosemary Costa
Undergraduate Student

Rosemary is an undergraduate Clark Honors College student majoring in Psychology. Outside of school, she loves snuggling with her dog, watching soccer, playing guitar, and exploring Eugene on her bike. In the future, Rosemary hopes to attend graduate school to pursue clinical psychology with a focus on Sports Psychology.

Andrew Curlett
Undergraduate Student

Andrew is an undergraduate student double majoring in Neuroscience and Human Physiology. Outside of UO, Andrew enjoys nature walks, hiking, listening to music, and sports (Go Seahawks) and will discuss anything sports related if you’re up for a long conversation. In the future, Andrew hopes to attend medical school.

Adelaide Essman
Undergraduate Student

Adelaide is an undergraduate student majoring in Multidisciplinary Sciences on the pre-health track. After college, Adelaide hopes to go to dental school and later become a pediatric dentist. In her free time, Adelaide loves reading, hiking, traveling, and spending time with friends.

Rilee Ezagui
Undergraduate Student

Rilee is an undergraduate student majoring in Psychology, with minors in Art and Disabilities Studies. Rilee loves to draw, read, and listen to music.

Juliet Fogel
Undergraduate Student

Juliet is an undergraduate student majoring in Psychology. After college, she plans to attend graduate school to become a child psychologist. In her free time, Juliet enjoys rock climbing, music, and baking.

Ian Foster
Undergraduate Student

Ian is an undergraduate student majoring in Psychology. He plans on attending graduate school on the path to becoming a clinical psychologist. In his free time, Ian loves to listen to music, read, and build puzzles.

Karen Glynn
Undergraduate Student

Karen is an undergraduate student majoring in Psychology with minors in Criminology and English. In the future, she hopes to attend graduate school and become a forensic psychologist. In her free time, Karen enjoys reading, practicing the guitar, and enjoying the outdoors.

Eliza Hankins
Undergraduate Student

Eliza is an undergraduate student majoring in Psychology. She hopes to attend graduate school for either developmental psychology or forensic psychology in the future. In her free time, Eliza enjoys traveling, dancing, reading, and spending time with her friends and family.

Jonathan Kornfeld
Undergraduate Student

Jonathan is an undergraduate student majoring in Psychology with a minor in Business Administration. After college, he hopes to pursue a career in either child development or sales. During his free time, Jonathan enjoys hiking and cooking.

Solomon Lamb
Undergraduate Student

Solomon is an undergraduate student majoring in Neuroscience and minoring in Music. Solomon hopes to research the relationship between music and the brain.

Sadie Magner
Undergraduate Student

Sadie is an undergraduate student majoring in Psychology and minoring in Special Education. Sadie enjoys spending her free time outside, reading, and singing.

Andrew McQueen
Project Manager

Andrew is a UO graduate double majoring in Psychology and Economics. Other than pursuing research in psychology, Andrew enjoys reading fiction and hiking with his two children.

Emilia Mudrick
Undergraduate Student

Emilia is an undergraduate student majoring in Neuroscience on the pre-health track. In her free time, she enjoys going to the gym, baking, traveling, and spending time with friends and family. After college, Emilia plans to attend medical school.

Stella Padilla
Undergraduate Student

Stella is an undergraduate student double majoring in Psychology and Neuroscience. She plans to go to medical school to become a child psychiatrist. In her free time, Stella likes to spend time with friends and cat, Margot, go to concerts, and go to the gym.

June Pease
Undergraduate Student

June is an undergraduate student majoring in Psychology and minoring in Chinese and Religious Studies. She hopes to earn her PhD in Clinical Psychology and work as a child psychologist someday. Outside of school, June loves to play the clarinet, knit, and spend time at the gym.

Finley Sader
Undergraduate Student

Finley is an undergraduate student majoring in Psychology and Sociology. She plans to get her master’s degree in Psychology and is interested in developmental and social psychology. In her free time, Finley enjoys reading, baking, and working with animals.

Subrina Shah
Undergraduate Student

Subrina is an undergraduate student majoring in Psychology with a minor in Criminology. She hopes to enter graduate school for child psychology. Some of Subrina’s hobbies include baking, reading, and hiking.

Carmel Shriki
Undergraduate Student

Carmel is a Clark Honors College undergraduate student majoring in Psychology and minoring in Criminology and Music. She aspires to attend graduate school and is considering a career in child psychology. Carmel enjoys reading, music, and working with children and animals.

Emme Staten
Undergraduate Student

Emme is an undergraduate student majoring in Multidisciplinary Sciences on the pre-health track. After college, she plans to attend medical school with the goal of becoming an OB-GYN. In her free time, Emme enjoys baking with friends, taking fitness classes at the Rec, and volunteering.

Nya Thompson
Undergraduate Student

Nya is an undergraduate student majoring in Psychology with a minor in Criminology. She hopes to attend graduate school and become a child psychologist. In her free time, Nya enjoys reading, baking, and going to the movies.

Siena Tobin
Undergraduate Student

Siena is an undergraduate student majoring in Psychology. She hopes to attend graduate school and pursue a career in psychology after college. Outside of the lab, Siena enjoys going to music festivals, hiking, pilates, and spending time with friends and her cats.

Alex Verduzco
Undergraduate Student

Alex is an undergraduate student majoring in Psychology. She hopes to earn a master’s degree in either psychology or speech pathology in the future. In her free time, Alex enjoys going to concerts, painting, and sewing.

Addison Wiesberg
Undergraduate Student

Addison is an undergraduate student majoring in Communication Disorders and Sciences and Psychology. She hopes to attend grad school and earn her master’s in Speech-Language Pathology. Addison wants to work with children with developmental speech and language disorders.

Currie Zafarana
Undergraduate Student

Currie is an undergraduate student majoring in Psychology and Family and Human Services. She hopes to attend graduate school to pursue a career in developmental psychology or early childhood counseling. In her free time, Currie enjoys being outside, running, and yoga.

Isaac Zhao
Undergraduate Student

Isaac is an undergraduate student majoring in Child Behavioral Health and minoring in both Psychology and Music. He enjoys playing piano, video games, and a variety of net sports in his free time.

Collaborators

Drew Abney
Lera Boroditsky
Paulo Carvalho
Laura Cirelli
Kaya de Barbaro
John Franchak
Casey Lew-Williams
Teenie Matlock
Jessica L. Montag
Linda B. Smith
Catalina Suarez-Rivera
Catherine Tamis-LeMonda
Catarina Vales
Dominique Vuvan
Anne Warlaumont
Adriana Weisleder
Erica Wojcik

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