Current Lab Team

2023 Lab Members

Back Row: Morgan Shumaker, Dr. Addy Babienau, Sarah Cliborn, Morgan Amberg, Maria Mendoza, Bella Vrana, & Dr. Uma Tauber

Front Row: Mary Helen McCulloch, Esmy Herrera, Lila Wojcik, Sara Frances Lowery, May Arauz, & Dr. Michelle Rivers

Not Pictured: Ashley Berdelis & Emily Smith

Graduate Student

Morgan Shumaker, M.S.

I received my B.A. in Psychology from Shippensburg Universityin Pennsylvania and my M.A. in Experimental Psychology From Radford University in Virginia. My research interests include memory, learning, and metacognition. My goals are to understand how and why learners select various study strategies, how well they can monitor their own learning, and how these factors affect memory. I am also interested in how people engage with external tools (e.g., smartphones) to store information and how externally storing this information enhances or diminishes memory.  

Postdoctoral Fellows

Addison Babineau, Ph.D.

I received my B.S. in Neuroscience in 2018 from Colorado State University, my M.S. from TCU in 2020, and my Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology from TCU in 2023. My research interests involve categorization and in helping students effectively form complex concepts. I am also interested in students’ motivation and the role it plays for their learning. By investigating students’ motivation and metacognitive beliefs about learning strategies, my goal is to understand how students best learn categories.    

Michelle Rivers, Ph.D.

Originally from California, I received my B.A. in Psychology from UC Santa Cruz, and completed my M.A. and Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology at Kent State University. Broadly, my research applies theories of learning and memory to enhance educational practice. Three primary aims of my research are to (1) identify, (2) develop, and (3) describe the underlying cognitive mechanisms of techniques that improve self-regulated learning and metacognition.