Christopher Kello Professor, Lab Director ckello [at] ucmerced [dot] edu

I received a BA in Cognitive Science from the University of Rochester, and a Ph.D in Experimental Psychology at UC Santa Cruz. I was a postdoctoral fellow in the Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition at Carnegie Mellon University, Advanced Research Associate at the House Ear Institute, Assistant and Associate Professor at George Mason University, and Program Director at the National Science Foundation before becoming a Professor at UC Merced. My interests span the work of the lab.

Ketika Garg Ph.D. Student kgarg [at] ucmerced [dot] edu

Ket joined the lab in 2017 with a Master's degree in Science from India. Her research is focused on human foraging in virtual environments in order to study search processes that evolved through human history as hunter-gatherers.

Maria Camila Alviar Guzman Ph.D. Student malviarguzman [at] ucmerced [dot] edu

Camila joined UC Merced in 2016 with a Bachelor's degree from the National University of Columbia. Her research is focused on multimodal language interactions and models of human communication based in coordination dynamics.

Sara Schneider Ph.D. Student sschneider2 [at] ucmerced [dot] edu

Sara joined the lab in 2016 with a Bachelor's degree from the University of Cincinnati. Her research is focused on the convergence of speech activity in monolingual and bilingual conversations, and the relationship between convergence and performance in cooperative speech tasks.

Daniel Schloesser Ph.D. Student dschloesser [at] ucmerced [dot] edu

Daniel joined the lab in 2016 with a Bachelor's degree from the University of Wisconsin-River Falls, and a Master's degree from Illinois State University. His research is focused on interpersonal coordination in perceptual-motor tasks like juggling, and comparing inter-limb coordination dynamics within and between individuals. Daniel also works on agent-based models of collective search processes.

Adolfo Ramirez-Aristizabal Ph.D. Student aramirez64 [at] ucmerced [dot] edu

Adolfo joined the lab in 2016 with a Bachelor's degree from UC Merced in Cognitive Science. His research is focused on hierarchial temporal structure in different types of speech, and comparing human and algorithm search processes over complex search spaces like scale-free networks.

Butovens Médé Ph.D. Student bmede [at] ucmerced [dot] edu

Butovens joined UC Merced in 2014 with a Bachelor's degree from City University of New York. His research is focused on hierarchial temporal structure in speech and music, in comparison with bird song and whale song. He also studies the neural bases of perceptual and motor processes that underlie speech and song.