Stephanie McMains

BIOGRAPHY

Stephanie McMains is an Associate Faculty Member who works with Faculty Member Sabine Kastner to recommend the scientific literature in their field.

ACADEMIC POSITION:
Postdoctoral Fellow: Neuroscience of Attention & Perception Laboratory, Princeton University

EDUCATION:
• 1999 BS, Cognitive Science, Carnegie Mellon University
• 2006 DPhil, Psychology, Boston University

GRANTS, HONORS & AWARDS:
• Individual NRSA Post-Doctoral Fellowship, FMRI studies of visual attention, Sponsor Sabine Kastner (2006-2009)
• Kavita Jain Dissertation Award, Boston University (2006)
• Dean’s Fellowship, Boston University (2000-2005)
• Student Travel Award, Cognitive Neuroscience Society Meeting (2002)
• Clara Mayo Memorial Graduate Fellowship Award (2001)
• Psi Chi, The National Honors Society in Psychology (1999)
• Presidential Scholarship, Carnegie Mellon University (1995-1999)

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS:
• Vision Science Society (VSS)
• Society for Neuroscience (SFN)
• The Organization for Human Brain Mapping (OHBM)

RESEARCH INTERESTS:
My research focuses on the neural mechanisms of human visual perception and attention using both psychophysics and functional magnetic resonance imaging. In particular, I am interested in how bottom-up stimulus driven processes interact with top-down goal directed processes in order to select relevant information from our cluttered environment.

HOME PAGE
http://www.princeton.edu/~napl/pdf/McMains_CV.pdf