Alshekhlee, Zina  “Inference by Exclusion is Accessible to Metacognition in Rhesus Macaques (Macaca Mulatta” Advisor: Dr. Robert Hampton

Berman, Iris "Majority Rules: How Social Norms Shape Children’s Environmental Investment" Advisor: Dr. Arber Tasimi

Brown, Savannah Tillie "All that Glitters is not Gold: Data-Driven Phonestheme Candidates and their Psychological Realities."  Advisor: Dr. Lynne Nygaard

Choi, Jaiyoun "Non-Invasive Vagus Nerve Stimulation’s Effects on Withdrawal-Associated Inflammatory Biomarkers in Opioid Use Disorder Patients." Advisor: Dr. Doug Bremner, co-advisor: Dr. Andrew Kazama

Cobb, Nicole Morgan "Evaluating Predictions of Worry with the Cognitive Versus Contrast Avoidance Theories." Advisor: Dr. Peter Hitchcock

Ding, Frank Yufan “Vascular and Cardiorespiratory Correlates of Depressive Burden and Quality of Life in Parkinson’s Disease." Advisor: Dr. Madeleine Hackney; co-advisor: Dr. Elaine Johnson

Fuller, Tobias Max "The Role of Intellectual Humility in Flexible Thinking and Cognitive Reappraisal." Advisor: Dr. Jessica M. Barber

Glass, Alina Maria

Huang, Xiaoya "PImpaired Recall of Naturalistic Videos in Medial Temporal Lobe Epilepsy." Advisor: Dr. Stephan Hamann

Lee, Corvin "Characterizing Androgen and Social Behavior Relationships in Mixed-Sex Groups of Acomys Dimidiatus." Advisor:Dr. Aubrey Kelly

Mullins, Siobhan"The Cost of Clinical Interruptions on Radiologists’ Case Interpretation Time." Advisor: Dr. Elizabeth Krupinski, co-advisor: Dr. Andrew Kazama

Proctor, Madeline Elizabeth "Prenatal Maternal Sleep Quality, Toddler Sleep Health, and Preschool Executive Functioning: Examining a Longitudinal Mediation Model." Advisor: Dr. Patricia Brennan

Salazar, Jasmin "Physiological Echoes of Trauma: Differentiating Maternal Trauma Histories and PTSD Symptoms  Through Skin Conductance Responses." Advisors: Dr. Abigail Lott, co-advisor: Dr. Andrew Kazama

So, Eunbin "Effort and Delay-Based Decision Making in Adolescents with ADHD – A Computational Approach." Advisor: Dr. Michael Treadway

Shi, Emmy "Investigating the Syntactical and Acoustic Control of Repeated Syllablesin the Bengalese Finch" Advisors: Drs. Sam Sober and Daniel Dilks

Shub, Isabelle Sarah "Evaluation of Psychotherapeutic Components in a Psychadelic-Assisted Therapy Trial: A Network Analysis." Advisor: Dr. Andrew Kazama

Tso, Emily Grace

Weiss, Ariella Rebecca

Xu, Fei "Sensitivity to Spatial Sequence with Geometric Regularity in Humans and Rhesus Maraques" Advisor: Dr. Lynne Nygaard

Cognition & Development

• Kruger, Ryno "Constructing Social Hierarchies: Dominance as a Flexible Inferential Mechanism Across Development and Context" Advisor: Dr. Stella Lourenco

• Ikeda, Ami "Prenatal Cannabis: Effects on Developmental Milestones, Disinhibition, and Substance Use" Advisor: Dr. Rohan Palmer
• Jaume-Feliciosi, Natalia "The Impact of Early Life Stress and Epigenetic Mechanisms on Comorbid Psychopathology and Cellular Aging" Advisor: Dr. Rohan Palmer
• King, Christopher "Adjudication and Validation of Models of Externalizing Psychopathology in Youth" Advisor: Dr. Irwin Waldman
• Suzuki, Shosuke "Neural mechanisms underlying effort-related choice and action" Advisor: Dr. Michael Treadway

Behavioral and Systems Neuroscience

• Sammeroff, Rael "Tests of Sensitivity to Cognitive Effort in Monkeys (Macaca mulatta)" Advisor: Dr. Robert Hampton

We are proud to announce that Fei Xu has been granted the 2026 Dr. William A. and Courtney C. Gentry Award. Congratulations!

This award is given to a graduating senior psychology major who is enrolling in a graduate program in psychology or a related field. Recipients have maintained outstanding academic records and performance at Emory and have a strong potential for making an impact on the direction of psychology through their future careers.

Fei has worked in the Wilson Lab for the last two years, as well as excelled in both granduate and undergraduate courses while at Emory. She undertook multiple research opportunities both in the lab and independent, many of these opportunities have culminated in co- and first authorships. publications

In her first year in the lab she conducted a largely independent project (supported by Rohini Murugan), which included participating in the SIRE program and giving an oral presentation at their conference. Due to her work on a separate project, Fei is also a co-author on one paper currently under re-review at the Journal of Experimental Psychology: General (Antoun, Zhang, Xu & Wilson, Sequence Order Resolves Ambiguity; Assessing the Contribution of Linguistic Recoding). In 2025, she received Pathways funding to participate in an internship program at the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory Marmot Project in Colorado, which culminated in another submitted paper, on which Fei is first author.

She also successfully defended her Honors thesis and presented the previous week as a poster at the South Eastern Evolution and Human Behavior Society meeting, where her poster (co-first authored with Rohini Murugan: 'Humans, but not monkeys, form compressed representations of visuospatial sequences') won first prize poster presentation.

Fei has been an incredible asset to the labs she works with, contributing to multiple projects, all of which will hopefully be published in the future. She has also procured additional funding through Emory and elsewhere to conduct research in the lab, and beyond. We are delighted that she found an excellent graduate school position-- she will continue to further her education working with marmosets at the University of California San Diego.

Congratulations from everyone at Emory Psychology, Fei! We cannot wait to see what you'll achieve!