Oumayma Agdali
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Oumayma is a senior at Hunter College majoring in Psychology with a concentration in cognitive psychology and will also pursue a minor in Philosophy. This past summer she worked at the Blumenfeld lab at Yale University studying the neural mechanisms behind awareness of action. She believe this factor of consciousness is often impaired in patients with epilepsy. Oumayma previously conducted research at NYU’s Center for Neural Science in Dr. Marisa Carrasco’s lab where the relationship between psychological and physiological mechanisms involved in visual perception and attention were studied. Their project investigated the relationship between pre-saccadic eye movement and attention and the effects these have on visual appearance.
Throughout the academic year She is currently conducting research in the Preuss lab at Hunter College. Here project studies the effect of social defeat in early development on pre-pulse inhibition (PPI) on African cichlid fish. Her future career interests lie in origins of consciousness, more specifically the cognitive and behavioral mechanisms which reveal the neural substrates that affect our thoughts, emotions, awareness, perception of reality and sense of self. She aims on pursuing a Ph.D. in Behavioral Neuroscience. . |