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principal investigator
principal investigator
Dr. Christine Coughlin
Dr. Christine Coughlin
Bio: Dr. Christine Coughlin (she/her) is the Principal Investigator of the FLAME Lab and an Assistant Professor of Psychology at the University of Illinois Chicago. She received a B.S. in Psychobiology from the University of California Los Angeles and a Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of California Davis, where she worked with Dr. Simona Ghetti. She then completed a postdoctoral fellowship in the Psychology Department at the University of Texas at Austin, where she worked with Dr. Alison Preston. Her research program has been supported by funding from The National Institutes of Health. In addition to science, Dr. Coughlin loves dogs (all), Mexican food (burritos!), outdoor adventures, and reading fantasy novels.
Research Interests: Dr. Coughlin’s research examines the development of future event imagination, episodic memory, and learning. She uses behavioral and neuroimaging methods to identify the neurocognitive mechanisms that support typical improvements in these abilities with age. She is also interested in how different environments influence this development, as well as in how future event imagination may impact academic achievement and psychological resilience during development.
Contact: ccoughli@uic.edu
CV : Dr Coughlin CV
Graduate students
Graduate students
kate hill
kate hill
Education: B.A., Psychology, Temple University
Bio: Kate earned her B.A. at Temple University with a major in psychology and a minor in cognitive neuroscience. During her time at Temple, she worked on an honors thesis with Dr. Peter Marshall in the Developmental Science Lab on finger independence using EEG. After graduation, Kate stayed at Temple to work with Drs. Nora Newcombe and Ingrid Olson in the Kid Memory Lab studying the development of episodic memory in kids ages 4-9 through behavior and structural MRI.
Research Interests: Kate is passionate about exploring the development of neural mechanisms underpinning episodic memory development across the lifespan. Additionally, she is intrigued by the impact and outcomes of creativity on the salience of memories over time. Kate is also dedicated to community outreach, with a strong focus on promoting inclusion among minority groups in research.
Contact: khill41@uic.edu
Berit T. Bathelmes
Berit T. Bathelmes
Education: B.S., Psychology, University of Würzburg, Germany
M.S., Psychology, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Bio: Berit T. Barthelmes earned her B.S. degree in psychology from the University of Würzburg in Germany. Her Bachelor’s thesis comprised a cognitive psychological experiment in the area of empirical aesthetics measuring how art experts and laypeople differ in their mental processing of art. She earned her M.S. degree in psychology from the University of Zurich in Switzerland. There, she continued her journey in cognitive psychology and focused on memory research. This culminated in a metascientific Master’s thesis which involved the attempt to measure theoretical progress on the basis of scientific text taking the memory decay theory and its development over time as example. She is a PhD student in the Brain & Cognitive Sciences area at UIC.
Research Interests: Berit is passionate about memory research. She enjoys thinking about why and how individuals in different social and cultural contexts forget certain things rather than others. How memories are incorporated to form a concept of the future intrigues her. She’s greatly enthusiastic about metascientific approaches to improve psychological science.
Contact: bbart10@uic.edu
lab manager
lab manager
sinem camlica
sinem camlica
Education: B.A., Psychology, Minor in Family Life Studies atTexas Tech University
Bio: Sinem Camlica earned her B.A. degree in psychology from Texas Tech University with a minor in Family Life Studies. During her undergraduate journey, Sinem was a lab manager for the PRYDe Lab where she had the opportunity to conduct and present her own research related to Justice Involved Youth; specifically focusing on risk factors for recidivism, the role of executive function as well as the impact of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and trauma in this specific population. Continuing her journey in cognitive psychology, Sinem began working in the FLAME Lab as a lab manager to further her research interests and gain experience in the field of memory.
Research Interests: Sinem is passionate about the intersections of research and intervention, with the goal of training as a mental health counselor while maintaining the perspective of a psychology researcher. She enjoys exploring how individual factors influence development across the lifespan.
Contact: scamlica@uic.edu
research assistants
research assistants
Dan Stull
Major: B.S., Psychology; Pre-Med Track, University of Illinois Chicago
Fun fact: I love to go snowboarding
Research Interests: I am interested in cognition/behavior psychology, Psychopharmacology, and Neurology
Lamorej Roberts
Major: B.A., Psychology, University of Illinois Chicago
Minor: Spanish and Art
Fun Fact: I like to plant and bake
Research Interests: Integration between cognitive and developmental psychology with a specific interest in children’s learning abilities through the different stages of development and how it can differ when there are underlying environmental effects.
Taylor Harris
Major: B.S. Psychology, University of Illinois Chicago
Minor: Biological sciences
Fun fact: I enjoy composing music in my free time
Research Interests: I am interested in Cognitive Neuroscience and studying brain damage due to trauma
Charly Beeson
Major: B.A., Psychology, University of Illinois Chicago
Minor: Kinesiology
Fun fact: I teach yoga and love to explore new neighborhoods on my bike.
Research Interests: The effects of chronic adverse experiences on the nervous system and the process of post traumatic growth through treatment and recovery. I'm specifically interested in the application of somatic based therapies.
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