Tiffany Lin
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Tiffany is a senior undergraduate at Hunter College interested in understanding how the brain constructs experience, from processing stimuli to emotions and their influence on attention and perception. These processes interest her because they’re highly connected to decision-making, a critical point of divergence in the psychiatric patient population.
She started her undergraduate career with Dr. Nesha Burghardt and Dr. Eric Nestler, where she worked with various rodent models of anxiety, addiction, and depression-like behaviors. In the Nestler Lab, she leads a project investigating the effects of chronic cocaine exposure on approach-avoidance decision-making. As this first-author project draws to a close and is being written up for publication, Tiffany will be pursuing a senior project under the mentorship of Dr. Wael Asaad and Michaela Alarie. She first started working with Michaela during the summer of 2024 and has returned to develop skills in analyzing human intracranial neurophysiological data. Moving forward, she will be integrating artificial neural networks into our understanding of neural correlates in visual and semantic processing. With respect to graduate school, she is interested in a number of clinical and basic neuroscience questions. She would be thrilled to work on projects that help elucidate the mechanisms of neuromodulation and stimulation or that apply such methods to neuropsychiatric and neurodegenerative disorders. She would be just as excited to investigate cognitive functions such as attention in non-clinical participants using psychophysics and electrophysiology tools. |