Lab Director
 | Natalie C. Ebner, PhDCurriculum Vitae natalie.ebner@ufl.edu Dr. Natalie Ebner is Full Professor and the Trish Calvert Ring Endowed Professor in the Department of Psychology in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at University of Florida. Read more Google Scholar | PubMed |
Lab Co-Director
 | Tian Lin, PhDCurriculum Vitae lintian0527@ufl.edu Dr. Tian Lin's primary research interest is in cognitive aging. In particular, he is intrigued by how emotional and motivational factors influence cognition across the adulthood. Read more |
Postdoctoral Researcher
 | Didem Pehlivanoglu, PhDCurriculum Vitae dpehlivanoglu@ufl.edu Dr. Didem Pehlivanoglu's research interests involve investigating the role of emotionally and motivationally relevant information on cognition at basic and applied contexts. Read more Google Scholar | Publons | Twitter |
 | Adam Barnas, PhDCurriculum Vitae abarnas@ufl.edu Dr. Adam Barnas' research aims to understand the way in which information in the world is selected (via attention), how attention interacts with other cognitive processes, and how attention degrades in normal and clinical aging. Read more Google Scholar | Personal Website |
Graduate Students
 | Alayna ShoenfeltGraduate Research Assistant Curriculum Vitae ashoenfelt@ufl.edu Alayna Shoenfelt’s research interests focus on understanding the underlying cognitive and socioemotional processes used by individuals to perceive and interact with their social environments, and how they change with aging. Read more |
 | Kylie WrightGraduate Research Assistant Curriculum Vitae kyliewright@ufl.edu Kylie Wright's research interests focus on investigating the cognitive, neurological and health impacts of stress at the psychological and biological level and how this process changes with age. Read more |
 | Chun-Che HungGraduate Research Assistant Curriculum Vitae hung.ch@ufl.edu Chun-Che Hung’s research interests focus on exploring the gut dysbiosis in older adults with Alzheimer’s disease continuum and its relationship with structural and functional brain changes using different neuroimaging techniques. Read more Google Scholar |
 | Sanghee ParkGraduate Research Assistant Curriculum Vitae parksanghee@ufl.edu My research interests focus on the impact of aging on social decision-making, including risky financial strategies in investment scams and trust-related social judgments. Read more |
 | Stephanie WashburnGraduate Research Assistant Curriculum Vitae swashburn1@ufl.edu Stephanie's research interests focus on how personality traits influence cognitive functions in older adults, particularly in relation to deception, by examining the intersections of cognitive, socioemotional, and neurobiological changes. Read more |
Research Programmer
 | Manish AlluriResearch Programmer Resume manish.alluri@ufl.edu Manish develops real-time fMRI applications and psychology software tools to study and enhance cognitive functions Read more Github |
Lab Managers
Dana Arnold
Ryan Faulkner
Alyssa Hayes
Lab Alumni
Marilyn Horta, Ph.D
Becca Polk, Ph.D
Dalia El-Shafie, B.S.
Peiwei Liu, Ph.D
Jillian Rung, PhMD
Ian Frazier, Ph.D
Desiree Lussier, Ph.D
Aylin Tasdemir, Ph.D
Carla Strickland Hughes, Ph.D