Matthew Wisniewski
Assistant Professor
Auditory learning has fascinated me for a long time. Before pursuing science, I had spent years trying to learn the skills necessary to become a sound engineer/musician. As my attempts began to fail, I became more and more curious of how experiences impact auditory skills. I received my Ph.D. in the Neural and Cognitive Plasticity lab at SUNY Buffalo while conducting research on this question. Afterwards, I did a postdoc at in the Battlespace Acoustics Branch of the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory in which I incorporated EEG methods into Air Force relevant auditory cognition studies. Over the years, I have developed an inter-disciplinary research program on auditory learning and cognition that employs a variety of methods with collaborators in multiple scientific disciplines (e.g., Psychology, Neuroscience, Engineering, Audiology). In August of 2018, this research program moved to K-State.
Alexandria Zakrzewski
Research Assistant Professor
While in college, I became preoccupied with problems related to "how we know we know and do not know", i.e., metacognition ("cognition about cognition"). In graduate school at the University at Buffalo (SUNY), I studied metacognition from a comparative perspective, testing uncertainty monitoring in humans and rhesus macaques. I did my postdoctoral work at the University of Richmond, exploring effects of aging on metacognitive ability. Recently, I have focused on how individuals’ confidence judgments predict performance accuracy during psychophysical discrimination and memory tasks as well as exploring neural correlates of confidence using EEG. In the ALC lab at K-State, I continue this work by examining effects of learning on metacognitive ability.
CJ Joyner
Graduate Student
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I’m a first year graduate student in the Cognitive Psychology program. I am currently studying under Dr. Wisniewski looking into auditory perception using the EEG system. I am interested in how masking affects auditory stimuli after training and how this can relate back to learning mechanisms. My future plans include continuing research in the auditory perception realm, possibly dabbling in multimodal perception, and eventually becoming a professor of Psychology.
Michelle Wheeler
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Michelle is studying Psychology and pursuing a certificate of Cultural Competence in American Ethnics Studies. After graduation this spring, she plans to do EEG work as either a researcher or possibly explore the clinical aspects of EEGs. She is looking forward to seeing where her experiences can take her!
Raelynn Slipke
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Raelynn is majoring in Psychology and is a pre-occupational therapy student. After graduation, she plans to attend KU Medical Center in Kansas City for graduate school. After graduating, she hopes to open a pediatric physical, speech, and occupational therapy clinic.
Affiliate Members
Destiny Bell
EEG Core Graduate Research Assistant
I'm a second year graduate student in the cognitive psychology program. I assist Dr. Wisniewski with data processing and analyses for his laboratory. I also help undergraduates in his lab do data processing and data collection. I primarily study how people use strategies keep information in memory while doing secondary tasks. I am interested in neural signatures associated with learning and memory failures.
I became interested in EEG research four years ago when I realized how EEG is used to measure underlying processes in the brain. We can see a person fail to remember information, but what is going on in their brain when that failure occurs? These are the questions my research line aims to uncover.
Former Members
Bailey Herring
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Shay Quigley
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Emma Harmon
Undergraduate Research Assistant