Belkairys Taveras Tapia
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Belkairys Taveras is a rising senior at Hunter College, majoring in Psychology with a concentration in Clinical Psychology and a minor in Sociology. She is interested in exploring complex cognitive processes, such as memory and decision-making, and their interplay with emotions, as they change across development.
During her junior year and into her upcoming senior year, Belkairys has been working in the Burghardt Lab. Her project focuses on testing the effects of prenatal exposure to curcumin on adult offspring, analyzing sex differences and depression and anxiety-like behavior. In the summer of 2024, she worked under the mentorship of Dr. Christopher Monk at the University of Michigan, exploring the correlation between sleep quality and decision-making in adolescents. During the summer of 2025, Belkairys worked under the mentorship of Dr. Joo-Hyun Song at Brown University, where she investigated how learning to suppress high probability locations develops over time in a visually guided attention task. Ultimately, Belkairys Taveras aims to contribute to our understanding of the neural mechanisms of psychiatric disorders by gaining experience in brain imaging and neurocognitive assessments. |