
" 'Thoughts' and 'things' are names for two sorts of object, which common sense will always find contrasted and will always practically oppose to each other."
- William James (1904)
Does ‘Consciousness’ Exist
BMC Lab Members
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Anthony I. Jack, PhD - Principal Investigator | |
I have a PhD in Experimental Psychology and extensive training in Philosophy and Neuroscience. I started out doing largely theoretical work on consciousness, but then got interested by the emerging field of brain imaging. I use fMRI to study attention, consciousness and social processing in the brain. Personal Home Page: |
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Megan Norr - Lab Manager | |
June 2009 - present; Individual differences in social cognition and non-social reasoning, Moral Boundaries I graduated from Case Western Reserve University in May 2010 after majoring in Cognitive Science, French, and English. I first began working in the Brain, Mind and Consciousness Lab in June 2009 with funding from SOURCE. My project examined the effects of practicing yoga and playing video games on socio-emotional cognition. I am currently engaged in projects that look at social processing in individuals with autism through behavioral testing and fMRI. |
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Rochelle Hudson - Research Assistant | |
May 2009 - present; Attachment and the brain I am an undergraduate at Case, majoring in Cognitive Science and Evolutionary Biology, with a minor in Math. I am working on two fMRI projects in the BMC Lab. The first compares the processing of familiar and unfamiliar faces in partients with Capgras dementia, Alzheimer's dementia and frontotemporal dementia. The second looks at judgements of attachment, attractiveness and neotony in undergraduates. |
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Georges Naassan, MD - Research Volunteer | |
2009 - present; Attachment and the brain I have an MD from the American University of Beirut in Lebanon. I am currently finishing up my residency training in Neurology. My main interest at the BMC lab is the visual processing of faces in undergraduate students and patients with neurodegenerative disorders. I study Capgras delusion as a model for uncoupled cognitive and affective visual face processing. I will be pursuing a fellowship in Behavioral Neurology and Neuropsychiatry following completion of my residency training. |
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Benjamin Kubit - Research Assistant | |
June 2009 - present; Individual differences in social cognition and non-social reasoning, Meta-analysis and functional annotation I am an undergraduate with majors in Cognitive Science and Psychology and minors in Philosophy and Music. While most areas of research interest me I am particularly interested in attention, social cogniton and neroaesthetics. I currently manage the behavioral data in the lab and would like to pursue a career in cognitive neuroscience after I finish at Case. |
| Abigail Dawson - Research Assistant | ||
January 2010 - present; Individual differences in social cognition and non-social reasoning, Moral Boundaries I am an undergraduate Cognitive Science and Psychology major at Case Western Reserve University. I am interested in pursuing a career in neuroscience or neuropsychology, and am currently engaged in a functional imaging project that explores the relationship between social and scientific reasoning. |
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Meral Sayir - Research Assistant | |
May 2010 - present; Meta-analysis and functional annotation I am an undergraduate student at Case Western Reserve University pursuing majors in Cognitive Science and Psychology. I have a passion for research. Therefore, I hope to attend a Clinical Psychology PhD program with an emphasis in research, after completing my undergraduate degree. |
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Brian Hysell - Research Assistant | |
May 2010 - present; Meta-analysis and functional annotation I study Cognitive Science and Computer Science at CWRU as undergraduate majors and time permitting, Philosophy and Artificial Intelligence as minors. I write programs for the lab's Linux-based server to perform or ease data analysis; in particular, I have recently dedicated much time and energy to preparing structural brain images for analysis via Voxel-Based Morphometry. My research interests include computational neuroscience, linguistics, and mood disorders. |
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Charles Fulco - Research Assistant | |
September 2010 - present; Attachment and the brain I am a systems biology undergraduate at Case Western concentrating in Neuroscience. In the BMC lab I am working with George and Rochelle studying face recognition in dementia patients and undergraduates. I plan to pursue training as a medical scientist in neuroscience or neurobiology after graduation, and am interested in the development of the nervous system, how the placebo effect works, and why people sleep. |
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Scott Tillem - Research Assistant | |
September 2010 - present; Meta-analysis and functional annotation I am an undergraduate at Case Western Reserve University majoring in Psychology, Cognitive Science, and Sociology. While all of these areas interest me, my focus is on personality disorders, social neuroscience and emotional neuroscience. After I graduate from Case Western, I intend to pursue advanced degrees in forensic psychology and/or personality psychology. Ideally, my future research will utilize neuroimaging within each of these fields. |
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Ashleigh DeVito - Research Assistant | |
November 2010 - present; Meta-analysis and functional annotation I am an undergraduate at Case Western Reserve University with a major in Cognitive Science and minors in Biomedical Engineering and Physics. I am interested in discovering more about the human mind and excited to be a part of the BMC lab. After graduation, I will be pursuing a career in neuroscience. |
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Cody Howell - Research Assistant | |
November 2010 - present; Meta-analysis and functional annotation I am a senior with majors in Psychology and Sociology and minors in Philosophy and Biology. I am interested in learning, memory, intelligence, and emotion- and I hope to pursue a Ph.D. in Synaptic Plasticity in Neuroscience after I leave Case. I am currently working with the Meta-Analysis project focusing on psychopathy, callousness and compassion. My next project in the lab involves learning styles and their neural correlates. |











