Our Team
Vishnu “Deepu” Murty
Principal Investigator
murty@uoregon.edu
Research Interests: Memory, Motivation, Threat, Decision-making, Clinical Risk
Daemon/Familiar: Koala Bear
Blake Elliott
Postdoctoral Fellow
Research Interests: Memory, Attention, Motivation, Neuromodulatory Systems, Psychopathology
blake.elliott@temple.edu
Daemon/Familiar: Emu
Lena Skalaban
Postdoctoral Fellow
skalaban@uoregon.edu
Research Interests: Episodic & Semantic Memory Interactions, Development, Goal-states
Daemon/Familiar: Gibbon
Benjamin Chaloupka
Postdoctoral Fellow
Research Interests: Memory & Consciousness, Spatial Navigation and Memory, Psychedelics
bchaloup@uoregon.edu
Daemon/Familiar: Golden Lion Tamarin
Steven Martinez
Graduate Student
stevent.martinez@temple.edu
Research Interests: Decision Making, Memory, Social Media Habits
Daemon/Familiar: Turtle
Ga In Shin
Graduate Student
gshin@uoregon.edu
Research Interests: Episodic Memory, Emotions, Memory Updating Processes, Functional Neuroimaging
Daemon/Familiar: Capybara
Ziyuan Chen
Graduate Student
ziyuanch@uoregon.edu
Research Interests: Goal-Oriented Memory, Arousal, Memory Consolidation, Event Representation
Daemon/Familiar: Sloth
Ryan Gerald Monkman
Graduate Student
rmonkman@uoregon.edu
Research Interests: Episodic Memory, Memory Similarity, Emotion, fMRI
Daemon/Familiar: Mountain Goat
Gavin Schneider
Graduate Student
gsch@uoregon.edu
Research Interests: Integrative Arts Interventions, Communication, Emotion, Clinical Risk, Trauma & Stress
Daemon/Familiar: Dragonfly
Nathan Mejia Garduño
Graduate Student
mejiagar@uoregon.edu
Research Interests: Memory, Metacognition, Agency, Motivation
Daemon/Familiar: Maned Wolf
Yifang Liu
Research Associate
yifangl@uoregon.edu
Research Interests: Episodic Memory, Semantic Memory, Decision Making, Agency, Prediction
Daemon/Familiar: Atheris
Eric Cruz-Mendez
Research Associate
ecruzm@uoregon.edu
Research Interests: Substance Abuse, Behavioral Neuroscience, Psycholinguistics
Daemon/Familiar: Axolotl
Alumni
Former Postdoctoral Fellow
Emily Cowan
Former PhD Student
Busra Tanriverdi
David Gregory
Elizabeth Horwath
Nicolas Ruiz
Xinxu “Karen” Shen
Former Master Student
Kate Cliver
Former Research Associate
Allison Neeson
Ian O’shea
Isabel Leiva
Jane Rothrock
Matthew Fain
Sam Reisman
Troy Houser