Graduate Student

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Steffie is a native Houstonian, graduating from St. John's School in 2002, Rice University in 2006, and spending the first year of graduate school at Tulane in New Orleans. Synesthesia brought Steffie back to Houston, where she uses functional MRI to understand how neighboring brain areas communicate to produce the colored sequences and sounds experienced by synesthetes. As a synesthete herself, Steffie is particularly in tune with this fascinating condition.

Publications

Tomson S, Avidan N, Lee K, Sarma AK, Tushe R, Milewicz D, Bray M, Leal S, Eagleman DM (2011). The genetics of colored sequence synesthesia: Suggestive evidence of linkage to 16q and genetic heterogeneity for the condition. Behavioural Brain Research. 223(2011):48-52. [Full text]

Eagleman DM, Kagan AD, Nelson SS, Sagaram D, Sarma AK (2007). A standardized test battery for the study of Synesthesia. Journal of Neuroscience Methods. 159: 139-145.

Graduate Student

Our perception of the duration of an event, and the temporal order between events can be distorted in various situations.  Through these temporal illusions, I am combining psychophysics, computation modeling and functional imaging to explore the mechanism underlying time perception.

Graduate Student

Scott is a Ph.D. student in Rice University's Electrical & Computer Engineering department, working under Dr. Eagleman as his advisor. He received his Masters from the same department, but with a focus on cognitive wireless protocol design. His current research interest is figuring out ways to exploit brain plasticity for developing new ways of sensing information and controlling devices. He also works with apparatus design for the group's timing work, as well as performing analysis of the group's synesthesia database.

Graduate Student (MD/PhD) 

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I have been forever challenged by the mysteries of neuroscience. As an undergraduate at MIT, I quickly realized the power of computational modeling as a tool in understanding the brain. I wanted to integrate both of these sciences in a unique way and earned dual degrees in Brain and Cognitive Sciences as well as Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. I soon became interested in translating these discoveries to people and patients and am currently pursuing an MD/PhD through Texas A&M. At the Eagleman Lab, I want to help bring the innovating science to the clinic.

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Research Assistant

I began neuroscience research in 2003 as a Junior in High School after meeting Dr. Eagleman at a High School Science Day in San Diego.  My initial research focused on perceptual flexibility - how your perception of time and visual stimuli is not constant but instead, variable based on circumstances.  In 2008 I completed dual degrees in Physics and Economics at Stanford University and after backpacking through South America I moved to re-join the lab in November of 2008.  Currently, I use function Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) to investigate freewill and group social dynamics.

Publications

Vaughn DA & Eagleman (in press) "Briefly Glimpsed People are More Attractive"

Vaughn DA & Eagleman (in press) "Radial Motion Induces Hering Illusion"

Research Assistant

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Hannah is an undergraduate student at Rice University majoring in Psychology and Linguistics with a concentration in Cognitive Science.

She plans to pursue postgraduate education in neuroscience after graduating from Rice. Because she personally experiences colored letters and numbers on a daily basis, Hannah is particularly interested in research on synesthesia.

Research Assistant

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Mentored by Dr. Eagleman, my curiosity is neuroscience -- and my imagination's playground is the Eagleman Lab.  I am a young scholar, the recipient of a Junior Division Grand Award and two consecutive First Place Awards at the Science & Engineering Fair Houston.  My investigations are focused in the areas of time perception, the confluence of neural and social processes, cognitive enhancement and the relationship between sensory processes and psychology.

Research Coordinator

Seán is an actor and member of Houston's Catastrophic Theatre Company, and was formerly with Nova Arts Project.   After attending the University of Iowa where he received his Theatre Arts Bachelor's degree along with a second degree in French.   Seán lived in Chicago and New York for 10 years before coming to Houston.  Seán has always been fascinated by the inner workings of the human mind, and is very excited to be a part of this exciting research environment.

Lab Programmer

Josh is a computer guru who has been writing software since he first found a book on the subject in his elementary school library. After spending some time in industry he is returning to academia  in hopes of pursuing the hard problem of consciousness and the question of friendly artificial intelligence.