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A listing of the
current Graduate Research Assistants in the lab and their interests.
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Jenna
Goldstein
I
received my BA in psychology from Bucknell University and began the doctoral
program at University of Maryland in the fall of 2007. I am interested in
social development and the physiological processes involved in facial
perception. In addition to my involvement with the Temperament Over Time
Study and the Infant Social Learning Study, I am currently conducting a
study investigating attention processes.
Email: jngold@umd.edu
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Michael
Hardin, M.S.
I
received an MS in Developmental Psychology from Johns Hopkins University in
2002, and a BA in Psychology and Philosophy from Ohio University in 1999.
My interests include the development of cognitive control processes, and
the modulation of these processes by neural systems implicated in reward
and emotion processing. My recent work has focused primarily on how these
interaction contribute to adolescent development of mood and anxiety
disorders, and social behavior.
Email: mhardin@umd.edu
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Sarah
Helfinstein
I
received a BA in psychology and biology with a specialization in
neuroscience from the University of Chicago in 2003. Currently, I’m a
4th-year Ph.D. student in the neuroscience and cognitive sciences program
at the University of Maryland. I am interested in the relationship between
brain, behavior, and personality. Specifically, I study how individual
differences in neural processing of salient information relate to
differences in patterns of goal-directed behavior, and to differences in
temperament. Ultimately, I want to understand how the combination of early
environment and genetics shapes the neural mechanisms that drive individual
differences in patterns of motivated behavior.
Email: shelfins@gmail.com
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Khalisa
Herman, M.S.
I
received my masters in Mind, Brain, and Education from Harvard University
in 2004. I am currently studying with Drs. Stephen Suomi and James Winslow
at the NICHD Laboratory for Comparative Ethology. My research interests
include the development of the stress system, emotion regulation, and the
etiology of anxiety and ADHD. I am particularly interested in investigating
whether there are permanent effects of social play experience on emotional
development, and the translation of this research for clinicians, parents,
and educators.
Email: kherman@umd.edu
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Mike
Kirwan
I
graduated from Williams College in 2008 with a B.A. in Psychology and
Economics and a concentration in Neuroscience. I am interested in the
development of executive function skills, social decision-making, and the
brain regions that underlie them. In addition to my ongoing involvement
with the Temperament Over Time Study (TOTS), I am currently investigating
the role of anxiety in attention and face processing.
Email: mkirwan@umd.edu
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Lauren
White, M.S.
I am a
third year doctoral student in the lab. I completed my undergraduate work
at Westminster College and completed my Master's degree at University of
Oregon. My research interests are in the areas of development and neural
correlates of the “social brain.” I am also interested in
exploring the interactions between brain development and behavior that
occur during the first few years of life. During my graduate work at
Maryland I want to examine the role of attention in shaping the development
of cognitive and emotional self-regulation. I am also interested in
exploring individual differences in the development of the associated brain
networks.
Email: lwhite5@umd.edu
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