Oumayma (Maya) Agdali
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Maya graduated from Hunter College with a degree in Psychology, a concentration in Cognitive Psychology and a minor in Philosophy.
During summer 2022, 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 conducted research in the Preuss lab at Hunter College. Here project studied the effect of social defeat in early development on pre-pulse inhibition (PPI) on African cichlid fish. Her 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. |