University of Gießen
Proposed Thesis: "Neo's Spoon and Newton's Apples: Prediction of rigid and non-rigid deformations of materials"supervisor: Dr. Katja Doerschner
2013 - 2015
M.Sc., Cognitive Neuroscience, Universita degli Studi di Trento (Rovereto, Italy)
Thesis: "Effect of Occipital tRNS in Task-Irrelevant Perceptual Learning (TIPL)", supervisor: Dr. Lorella Battelli, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT)
2009 - 2013
B.A. Psychology, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick
Program: Individualized Major in Cognitive Science
Additional Training
Summer Schools
2014
Summer School: Perceptual organization: Interdisciplinary approaches and research skills, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium Dr. Johan Wagemans
Lab Visits
2014 - 2015
12-months @ Center for Neuroscience & Cognitive Systems, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Rovereto, Italy Supervisors: Drs. Lorella Battelli & Martijn vanKoningsbruggen
2014
3-months @ NIH/NIMH Section on Learning and Plasticity (SLaP), National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA Supervisor: Dr. Christopher I. Baker
2012
3-months @ The Johns Hopkins University, Vision Sciences Group, Baltimore, MD, USA Supervisors: Drs. Jonathan Flombaum, Justin Halberda, & Hrag Pailian
Peer-reviewed Publications
[1] Alley, L.M., Schmid, A.C., Doerschner, K. [In-Prep]. Neo's spoon and Newton's apples: Prediction of rigid and non-rigid deformations as cues to material properties.
Conference Talks
[2] Alley, L.M., Schmid, A.C., Doerschner, K. (2018). Neo's Spoon and Newton's apples: What material properties are part of object representations? Presented at the 60th annual meeting of TeaP (Tagung Experimentell Arbeitender Psychologen), Marburg, Germany
[1] Alley, L.M., Schmid, A.C., Doerschner, K. (2017). Neo's spoon and Newton's apples: Motion of rigid and non-rigid deformations as cues to material properties. Annual meeting of the Vision Science Society (VSS), St. Pete Beach, FL, USA
Conference Posters
[5] Alley, L.M., Schmid, A.C., Doerschner, K. (2016). Neo's spoon and Newton's apples: Motion of rigid and non-rigid deformations as cues to material properties. Society for Neuroscience (SfN), San Diego, CA, USA
[4] Alley, L.M., Pailian, H., Halberda, J. (2012). The Cost of Manipulating Representations in Visual Working Memory. Poster Presentation Day, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA
[3] Alley, L., Rathakrishnan, V., Harman, C., Kourtev, H., Kugel, A., Haladjian, H.H., Aks, D.J. Pylyshyn, Z.W. (2011). Tracking objects and tracking our eyes during disrupted viewing. Annual meeting of the Vision Science Society (VSS), Naples, FL, USA
[2] Aks, D.J., Alley L., Rathakrishnan, V., Kourtev, H., Haladjian, HH., Pylyshyn, Z.W. (2011). When vision loses its “grip” on tracked objects: Lessons from studying gaze-to-item dynamics. Annual meeting of the Vision Science Society (VSS), Naples, FL, USA
[1] Alley, L.M., Rathakrishnan, V., Harman, C., Kourtev, H.V., Kugel, A., Haladjian, H.H., Aks, D.J., Pylyshyn, Z.W. (2011).Tracking objects and tracking our eyes during disrupted viewing. Rutgers Undergraduate Research Symposium, New Brunswick, NJ, USA