People

Meet the people behind the research!

Graduate Students

Taylor Doty

Taylor is a second year M.A. student  and her interests in psychology include cognition, brain structures and functions, synesthesia, and vision sciences. Specifically in vision, Taylor hopes to explore the impacts of virtual reality systems on the field in both recreational and therapeutic usage.

DeVere Vidamuerte

DeVere is a researcher in the VISN lab interested in integrative neuroscience involving cognitive psychology, attention, perception, and consciousnesses. DeVere is currently examining neurological processes through eye behavior during moral dilemmas in immersive virtual environments.

Lauren Knox

Lauren Knox is a first year MA student in the psychological science program and has interests in cognitive and social neuroscience. In particular, Lauren is interested in how the visual process can shed light on the neuroscience underlying social behaviors and processes.

Robert Mosher

Robert Mosher is a secondx year M.A. student interested in the visual processes affected by virtual reality.

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Post Baccalaureate Students

Cynthia Delgado

Cynthia is a Research Assistant in the Lab

Rony Morales

Rony is a postgraduate in the Psychology Program at California State University, Northridge. He graduated with honors in Spring 2017. He is interested in the field of Industrial and Organizational Psychology. He is hoping to  explore how people’s different behaviors influence in the workplace, and how he can contribute to solve issues that can make the work environment better.

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Undergraduate Students

Jazlyn Armendariz

Jazlyn is a graduating senior majoring in Psychology with a minor in Child Development. She is a Researcher in the lab and an NIH-funded Research Initiative for Scientific Enhancement (R.I.S.E.) Scholar. Currently, she is involved with projects that investigate the impact virtual reality has on the visual system and if there are notable differences in kinematic movement patterns of a newly learned skill either within or outside of a virtual environment. She is also involved in a project that incorporates the utilization of eye tracking, that aims to examine different visual behaviors within populations who exhibit ADHD like symptoms and those that do not.

Madeline Awad

Madeline is a Researcher in the lab, senior Psychology student, Sally Casanova Scholar, and Maximizing Access to Research Careers (MARC) Scholar. Her research includes virtual reality and reading tasks to examine impacts on oculomotor systems. Recently she has been working on visual disparity's impact on one's role in academia can affect ethnic groups differently. Her interests lie in vision sciences, and cognitive and neural mechanisms of visual attention.

Celine Dabby

Celine Dabby is a graduating senior and a researcher in the lab. She is currently working on the attention, ADHD, synesthesia, and virtual reality ongoing projects. She is a psychology major, and her interests lie in Cognitive psychology - specifically how visual attention can affect how we perceive a visual scene.

Adrian De Leon

Adrian is an undergraduate Research Assistant in the Lab with great ambition. His interests are in Neuroscience and Virtual Reality-- all in hopes of one day mapping out every single corner of the complete consciousness for the human mind.

Justin Gluck

Justin is a third-year psychology research assistant in the lab. He is interested in cognitive processes, specifically problem-solving, imagination, and perception. He hopes to explore how we can change the way we intake information and apply it problems we encounter.

Aileen Kangavary

Aileen Kangavary is a 4th year psychology honors student graduating in Spring 2021 and was a BUILD PODER scholar from 2017-2020. She is the co-lead on the ADHD project where they will be investigating objective ways to diagnose Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) in college-aged students using eye tracking technology. She aspires to obtain a PhD in clinical psychology

Alex Krause

Alex is a sophomore at California State University, Northridge, studying Kinesiology with a concentration in exercise science. He is a research assistant in the VISN lab and the Move-Learn lab. He is particularly interested in the mechanisms for movement with an understanding of the mind. Alex is currently researching the transference of motor skills learned within a virtual reality environment to the real world.

Zabrina Legarda

Zabrina is a junior majoring in Psychology and is interested in the aspects of technology and healthcare. Zabrina hopes to explore how technology can be further integrated into the medical field improving patient care through different technological advances.

Danielle Levaton

Danielle is a Research Assistant in Lab

Livier Lopez Canela

Livier is a junior, as well as a first-year MARC student. Her major is Public Health and she is a Research Assistant in the V.I.S.N. lab. She am involved in several projects in the lab, which include ADHD and eye-tracking, hammering in virtual reality, and a new project involving augmented reality and breastfeeding. The project she is most involved in is the ADHD and eye tracking project where we will utilize eye tracking technology to examine ocular eye behaviors in individuals with ADHD symptoms.

Casey McGinnis

Casey is a Researcher  in the Lab

Nidah Mohammed

Nidah is a first-year Honors Psychology major and is very excited to get involved in research here at CSUN. She plans on getting involved in the clinical aspects of the lab, including its upcoming study examining eye behaviors in people with ADHD symptoms.

Sanjiti Sharma

Sanjiti Sharma is an undergraduate in the Biopsychology program at CSUN. She is currently exploring Neuroscience and Vision Sciences and is a research assistant at the V.I.S.N lab.

Andrea Torres Lopez

Andrea is a Researcher in the Lab

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Research Collaborators